Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Tactic 0159

[Event "Bay Area Chess 90"]
[White "Yu, Leland"]
[Black "Bennett, Jim"]
[Result "*"]
[Annotator "JB"]
[SetUp "1"]
[FEN "6k1/r4pp1/pb5p/1pp2q2/8/1P3B1P/P3QPP1/R5K1 w - c6 0 28"]

{White to move, black just played c5. }
{Second best is Re1 (-0.77), best is Qe8+ (8.63) }
1. Qe8+ Kh7
2. Be4 {Check followed by pinning and winning the queen. }
{An obvious tactic, but pretty. }
2... Qxe4
3. Qxe4+ g6
*

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