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Chess Academy: A subtle blunder
[Title "White to move"]
[FEN "r1bqr1k1/pp1nbpp1/4pn1p/2pp4/2PP1B2/P1NBPN2/1P3PPP/R2Q1RK1 w - - 0 1"]
White can play Nb5 followed by Nc7 but wouldn't Black play Rf8 beforehand?
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Chess Academy: A subtle blunder
[Title "White to move"]
[FEN "r1bqr1k1/pp1nbpp1/4pn1p/2pp4/2PP1B2/P1NBPN2/1P3PPP/R2Q1RK1 w - - 0 1"]
White can play Nb5 followed by Nc7 but wouldn't Black play Rf8 beforehand?
This is a familiar tactic I often get to use myself in another opening line. If black plays 1... Rf8
, then comes 2. Bc7! Qe8 3. Nd6 Bxd6 4. Bxd6
and black loses the exchange anyway.
[Title "White to move"]
[FEN "r1bqr1k1/pp1nbpp1/4pn1p/2pp4/2PP1B2/P1NBPN2/1P3PPP/R2Q1RK1 w - - 0 1"]
1. Nb5 Rf8 2. Bc7! Qe8 3. Nd6 Bxd6 4. Bxd6
Chess is about patterns. Since I was familiar with the pattern, I spotted this tactic immediately.