Games

 /

Entertainment

Black to Play

Pete Tamburro on

Published in Chess Puzzles

I was looking through my first chess book (The Game of Chess by Golombek)and found a section on “tricks.” We’ll do some tricks this week. Here, Black surprised White in what seemed like a stable position.


Black wins a pawn and likely the game after 1...b5 2.Qc2 2.cxb5 c4 or 2.Be2 bxc4 3.Qc2 Ne4 4.0–0 Bxc3 5.bxc3 Qxc3 2...bxc4 3.Be2 Ne4 4.Rc1 cxd4 5.Nxd4 Qxa2 6.0–0 Bxc3 7.bxc3 Qxc2 8.Rxc2 Bd7 and Black has a decisive advantage due to his outside and rook supported passed pawn.

 


Send questions and comments to PTamburro@aol.com.

 

More Chess Puzzles

White to Play

Chess Puzzles /

OK, suitable for a weekend puzzle, this is a long sequence with a central theme of attacking along the diagonal from a2-g8. See if you can work it out all the way to mate at the end.

White to Play

Chess Puzzles /

Here’s a game I played on the Internet Chess Club this morning. I played an opening system I mentioned in my Openings for Amateurs books and have played hundreds of games with this line. It started out like this: ...Read More

White to Play

Chess Puzzles /

This game was won by Dennis Waterman in 1974 out California way in a tournament at the legendary Mechanics Institute in San Francisco.


 

Comics

Steve Benson Diamond Lil Jeff Koterba Jimmy Margulies Drew Sheneman Baby Blues
See more