Tactical Motif #2

This one is tricky. The first move should scream at you though.




Edit: From a Ruy, white to move. Black just played h5.

1.....Nf3xe5
2 dxe5, Qxe5+
3 Kg1, Nh6+
4 NxNh6, BxNh6

At a glance that looks promising ? 🙂

Originally posted by Black Star Uchess
1.....Nf3xe5
2 dxe5, Qxe5+
3 Kg1, Nh6+
4 NxNh6, BxNh6

At a glance that looks promising ? 🙂

The idea is after 1.Ngxe5 dxe5 2.Nfxe5 white is threatening a knight fork that black has to do something about and there's this hidden pressure on e7.

2...Be8 3.Bxf5 Rxf5 4.Nc6 Bxc6 5.dxc6 Na5 6.Qxe7

2...Qe8 3.Nxd7 Qxd7 4.Bxf5 Qxf5 5.Qxe7 Qxf2+ 6.Kh2

2...Bf6? 3.Nxg6+ Kg8 4.Nxf8 Bxc3? 5.Nxd7 Bxa1? 6.Qe6+ mate is coming

This one isn't like above really, but I guess there's no point to starting a new thread:




black to move


Here's the entire game(it was blitz so be kind)