Black to Play and Win
Pete Tamburro
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Published in Chess Puzzles
Here's an elemental practical problem from an analysis of a position from a game that was given in British Chess Magazine in 2006. You're Black. You have to figure out how to deal with White's a-pawn which is threatening to queen. Can you catch it? Can you get your own queen and somehow win? Questions. Questions!
Solution:
1...Nd2+ 2.Kc2 [Taking the knight allows Black to queen with check and stop the pawn:2.Bxd2 h2 3.a7 h1=Q+ 4.Kb2 Kd3 with a fairly quick mate to come.] 2...Nc4 3.Kc3 Nb6 [Now the knight has caught the pawn and can queen his own] 4.Kd2 h2 5.Ke2 h1Q 6.Be3 Qf3+ and mate soon follows.
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