A nearly true story about me playing Chess (and Scrabble) with the devil.
An uncanny picture of Karpov giving a simultaneous display.
A tactic I pulled off in a RHP game leads to a mini RHP quiz.
A blank chessboard question (which I got years ago from a non-chess magazine.)
A study by Liburkin and Bondarenko White to play and win.
Blog Post 447
I was thinking Ne3
Actually scrap that, I was getting confused with the King on a1 🙂. Nh4 with the intention of sacrificing it for the h pawn. Play for the end game!?
My move thought:
Surely this is just winning for white with black eventually requiring to sacrifice his bishops and white's king in a better position to get to pawns quicker.
@greenpawn34 saidHi GP, I enjoyed the blog, but messed up with the "count the 5s" problem, I just numbered the squares a1 - h8 and wondered what was hard about finding eight 5s...
Also has been pointed out on the blog.
blainemn - flore RHP 2019
[fen] r4n1R/1p4k1/1qp3p1/p5P1/6Q1/2p1Pr2/PPP5/2K4R w - - 0 28 [/fen]
It went 29.Qd7+ Nxd7 30. Rh1-h7 mate. But Black has better.
Regarding this, what I think is:
Hi DeepThought,
Yes I missed declining the Queens sac. I told my D.B. to search for...
Quite a few appeared and was happy to see a 2019 game pop up
so just grabbed it. I like to use if I can fairly recent R.H.P. games.
I tell the kids I teach one of the first things to look at when someone
sacs a piece at you is; '....what happens if I don't take it.' ( OOPS! )
but practising what I preach has never been one of my game strong points.
Glad to see people are paying attention and keeping an eye on me. 😉