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Black to Play

Pete Tamburro on

Published in Chess Puzzles

This is a position Alekhine as Black reached against Fink. How did he continue the game?


A very simple illustration of the interference theme. The queen protects White from mate on e2 however, by placing his bishop on b5, Black will give White two choices to capture this interfering piece. If QxB, then RxQ wins the queen and if axb5, that doesn't solve the interference issues.. And that won the game for Alekhine.

 


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