Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Tactic 0004

[Event "ICC Blitz"]
[White "jbennett"]
[Black "Dankusti"]
[Result "*"]
[Annotator "JB"]
[SetUp "1"]
[FEN "r4r1k/1p3p1p/1bp2p2/p2p3B/8/1N3Q1P/Pq3PP1/R3R1K1 w - a6 0 19"]

{White to move, black just played a5. }
{Second best is Rab1 (4.57) best is Re2 (8.61) }
1.Re2 Qxa1+ {The black queen needs to stay on the diagonal protecting f6, }
{to prevent the devastating Qxf6+. But where can the queen go? }
2.Nxa1 Bd4 {Again protecting f6, }
3.Nb3 {but black is lost anyway. }
*

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