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Pete Tamburro on

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This position arose in a game, Janowski-Schallop, 1896. Black is obviously threatening both of White’s rooks. How did White deal with the situation?


Solution:

Lots of moves don’t work! For example, 1.Rf1 Rd8 2.Be2 Bf3 3.Bxa7 f5 and Black is still material up; or, 1.Rf1 Ne7 2.Nb5 Qxh2 3.Nxa7 [3.Bc5 Qe5+]3...f6 4.Bb5 Bf3 5.Qc4 Bd5 and Black is winning. And the clever looking 1.Qxc6+ Qxc6 2.Bb5 Bf3 [2...Qxb5 3.Nxb5 Bf3 4.Rg1 Rc8 5.Bxa7]3.Bxc6+ Bxc6 still leaves White in bad shape;however, 1.Bd5 exd5 [1...Qxd5 2.Nxd5; 1...Qh3 2.Bxc6+ Ke7 3.Qb4+ Kf6 4.Qf4+ Ke7 5.Bc5+ Kd8 6.Qd4+ Kc8 7.Qd7+ Kb8 8.Qb7#] 2.Qxc6+ Kd8 [2...Ke7 3.Nxd5+ Kd8 4.Qxa8+ Kd7 5.Qxa7+ Kd6 6.Qc5+ Ke5 (6...Ke6 7.Nf4+) 7.Bf4+ Ke6 8.Qc6+ Kf5 9.Ne3+] 3.Qxa8+ Kd7 4.Kd2 Nf6 5.Qxa7+ Ke6 6.Qb6+ Bd6 7.Bc5 Ne8 8.Rae1+ Kf5 9.Bxd6 Nxd6 10.Qxd6 Qxf2+ 11.Kc1 Qf4+ 12.Qxf4+ Kxf4 13.Rhf1+ Kg5 14.Rxf7 and in all these cases with 1.Bd5, it’s an easy win for White.

 


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