White to Move And Win?!
My most recent chesscapade was in Tonopah, NV:
7 Northern Nevada players and 7 Southern Nevada players met there to decide the State Championship and the State Team Championship. Everyone played 2 games against someone of similar strength, a pretty standard team match. I faced Virgilio Reyes, the state champion from last year on board 2 of the teams. His rating is 2092. I have seen him play before and I'm sure we have played blitz games in the past but I don't think he remembered me. When I lived in Vegas we went to the same club for a while but I wasn't around for that long.
The first game I thought things were going pretty well and then we got to this position:
where White unleashed a pretty tactic that wins a piece. It's the first time I've been hit by something like this in a while. I felt like resigning but played on for about 80 more moves before we reached a drawn position and then some crazy stuff happened. Tune in later this week for the game and the dramatic ending.
7 Northern Nevada players and 7 Southern Nevada players met there to decide the State Championship and the State Team Championship. Everyone played 2 games against someone of similar strength, a pretty standard team match. I faced Virgilio Reyes, the state champion from last year on board 2 of the teams. His rating is 2092. I have seen him play before and I'm sure we have played blitz games in the past but I don't think he remembered me. When I lived in Vegas we went to the same club for a while but I wasn't around for that long.
The first game I thought things were going pretty well and then we got to this position:
where White unleashed a pretty tactic that wins a piece. It's the first time I've been hit by something like this in a while. I felt like resigning but played on for about 80 more moves before we reached a drawn position and then some crazy stuff happened. Tune in later this week for the game and the dramatic ending.
Same drunkn time, same drunkn channel?
Chess is weird. I really want to see what tool on your Drunkn Utility Belt got you got out of this one.
I was thinking along similar lines to Chessaholic:
1.Nxc6 Qxc6 2.Qxd5+ wins a piece.
Or if Black recaptures with the b-pawn then:
1.Nxc6 bxc6
2. Rxd5 also leaves White up a piece, because Black cannot afford to recapture again with 2...cxd5 or he will fall prey to this nasty double-fork:
3. Qxd5+ Kf8 (if ...Kh8 gets Black mated after Qxa8+)
4. Qxa8+ (forking the king and a7 bishop, and when the
dust clears White will have netted 2 bishops and a
pawn from all the exchanges!)
Or at least that's how it seemed to play out in my head, though I wouldn't be surprised if I overlooked something... ;-)
Best regards,
Hank