Been practicing

All Things Chess
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Been doing some combination problems lately, and thought I’d post this zinger.

  1. Bxf6

[Event “Lichess unrated standard 15+15”]
[Site “?”]
[Date “2019.01.05”]
[Round “?”]
[White “James”]
[Black “Anonymous”]
[Result “1-0”]
[BlackElo “0”]
[Classes “?”]
[ECO “?”]
[TimeControl “900+15”]
[WhiteElo “0”]

  1. d4 c5 2. d5 d6 3. e4 e5 4. Nf3 Bg4 5. Nbd2 Ne7 6. Be2 h6 7. O-O Ng6 8. b3
    Be7 9. Bb2 O-O 10. a3 Nd7 11. b4 cxb4 12. axb4 Nb6 13. c4 Nf4 14. Rc1 Bd7 15.
    c5 dxc5 16. bxc5 Nxe2+ 17. Qxe2 Na4 18. Bxe5 a6 19. d6 Bf6 20. Nc4 Nxc5 21.
    Bxf6 Qxf6 22. Nb6 Qxd6 23. Nxa8 Bb5 24. Rfd1 Qc6 25. Qc2 b6 26. Nxb6 Qxb6 27.
    Qxc5 Qf6 28. Nd4 Re8 29. Nxb5 axb5 30. Qxb5 Rxe4 31. Rd8+ Kh7 32. Qb1 Qe7 33.
    Rd4 f5 34. Rxe4 fxe4 35. Re1 1-0

I only post games occasionally when I think it’s reflective of something I’ve learned recently.

The position I posted it the critical point of the game, and the only position I really spent some time looking at. I knew I felt the position was ripe for a tactic.

As per usual, I didn’t check for best play using an engine to analyze the game later, since it’s not really indicative of play at mortal levels one sees at a chess club or a coffee house. I’m fairly certain white has an advantage after the bishop move.

The tactics I’ve been practicing is attacking 2 different pieces at once, with several variations of how to do that, but where I have to try and find the sequence of moves that leads to, in this case, a forking attack.

In any event, in the diagram, it seems so obvious, but when your on the clock and scanning for tactics every move, it’s less obvious due to players tending to focus on certain squares that are actively being challenged.

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I dunno, when I was playing the game, the tactic seemed so much better than when I posted a snapshot of it here.

That being said, I think the opponent would’ve been fairly busted if he’d used the pawn on g7 to take the white bishop. In any event, it’s that position I posted that’s critical, not the follow up move where the white’s knight forks pieces.