Saturday, October 3, 2009

Tactic 0201


[Event "ICC Blitz"]
[White "Yahsue"]
[Black "jbennett"]
[Result "*"]
[Annotator "JB"]
[SetUp "1"]
[FEN "r2q1rk1/1p5p/p1p1bbN1/3p3Q/1P1P1P2/P3B3/6PP/R3R2K b - - 0 20"]

{Black to move, white just played Nxg6. }
{Second best is Bf7 (-0.75), best is Qe8 (-1.79) }
{hxg6 leads to a draw. }
1... Qe8 {Qe8 and Bf7 have the same idea, to pin the knight. }
{But Qe8 is better, because Bf7 allows f5: }
(1... Bf7
2. f5 Re8
3. Bg1 Kg7
4. Be3 Rxe3
5. Rxe3 hxg6
6. Qg4 Qc7
)
2. Nxf8 Qxh5
3. Nxe6 Re8
*

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