This, our last visit to the Lodz Chess Club of 1910, exhibits several of the sins of amateurs. White has apparently tried a two pawn and queen attack against Black, who has just methodically placed all his pieces on good central squares. This is in contrast to White who still has his bishop and rook sitting on their original squares and a knight not doing much of anything. So, in our game Kanel-A. Mund, how did Mr. Mund punish this sinner?

Solution:

Because he is so well-developed, Black can offer up the knight right off the bat and follow it up with a devastating rook sacrifice. 1...Rg5 2.Qxd7 [Hopeless is, for example, 2.Qh3 Re2 3.Nf3 Rexg2+ 4.Qxg2 Rxg2+ 5.Kxg2 Qf5 6.Bd2 Nf6 7.Rh1 Qg4+ 8.Kf2 Ne4+ 9.Ke2 Ng3+] 2...Rxg2+ 3.Kxg2 Qg5+ 4.Kh1 [4.Kh2 f3+ 5.Qxd6 Qg2#] 4...Qh4+ 5.Kg1 Qg3+ 6.Kh1 Re2 7.Qd8+ Bf8 and White Resigned.

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