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Pete Tamburro on

Published in Chess Puzzles

Alertness is a key to accurate chess playing and this position is no exception.


Solution:

The game,Chehovsky-Golenkin, Correspondence, 1989, started in lively fashion with 1.e4 d6 2.d4 Nf6 3.Nc3 g6 4.Be3 c6 5.Qd2 Nbd7 6.Nf3 Qa5 7.Bd3 e5 8.0–0 Ng4 9.Bg5 h6 (see diagram) and now 10.Nd5 Black Resigns It’s a mate with Nc7 if Black takes the White queen or the loss of the queen if it retreats. That Nd5 move unmasking the queen is a handy idea to know. It comes in handy in the Sicilian Defense a fair amount of time.

 


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