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Pete Tamburro on

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Here’s a question for you. Black has played his knight to h5, not a very good square in the opening. He should be developing his other pieces before sticking his knight out there. Your question is this: should you play 7.Nxe5, and, after Black recaptures the knight, then play 8.Qxh5?


Solution:

The game reached the position by 1.e4 d6 2.Nf3 Nd7 3.g3 Ngf6 4.d3 e5 5.Bg2 Be7 6.0–0 Nh5 and now White blundered with 7.Nxe5 (the answer is NO!) and after 7…Nxe5 8.Qh5 Bg4, had to resign! The queen is lost (Fleming-Nichter, England, 1990).

 


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