White to Play
Published in Chess Puzzles
Black thought, by exchanging queens and other material, he could get out of trouble, but White was tactically alert. What did he see?
Solution:
The game, Peter Clarke-Jan Jerolim, Amsterdam, 1954, started out with 1.e4 g6 2.d4 d6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.f4 Nd7 5.Nf3 e5 6.fxe5 dxe5 7.dxe5 Nxe5 8.Qxd8+ Kxd8 9.Bg5+ Ke8 10.Nd5 Nxf3+ 11.gxf3 Kd7 12.0–0–0 Kc6 (see diagram) and ended abruptly with 13.Bb5+ as after 13...Kxb5 14.Nxc7+ Kc6 15.Nxa8 b6 16.Rd8, it’s quite over. Congratulations to those, though, who found a more decisive 13.Nb4+ Kb6 14.Rd5 a6 15.Be3+ c5 16.Rxc5.
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