White is one of the top Dutch junior GM Daniel Stellwagen. Black is the founder of Chess Vibes Peter Doggers. It is White to move. What is the best continuation for White?
1r1qrnk1/1b3pb1/pp2p1p1/3pP1P1/Pn3PBQ/1NN1B3/1PP4R/3R2K1 w – – 0 1
1r1qrnk1/1b3pb1/pp2p1p1/3pP1P1/Pn3PBQ/1NN1B3/1PP4R/3R2K1 w – – 0 1
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The picture doesn’t seem to show up for me. This is a rendering of the FEN string:
http://thingmajig.org/test/fen/mfen.php?fen=1r1qrnk1/1b3pb1/pp2p1p1/3pP1P1/Pn3PBQ/1NN1B3/1PP4R/3R2K1
Unless there’s a 3-move mate I’ve overlooked, White had better play Nd4.
Mark
Knight to e4 wins easily.
White has a positional advantage and can slowly prepare a king side attack. (He should be careful not to allow black to sacrifice with d4 to open the long diagonal and use d5 with his knight) The problem is whether to play 1. Ne4 at once or not. I’d say no. Black has to sacrifice with dxe4 but after 1…dxe4 2.Rxd8 Rexd8 he seems to have enough compensation. i.e. if 3. Bxb6 Rdc8 threatening Nb6-d5xf4
–Ali
Ali –
You mean Nd4-d5xf4, right? Sorry, but I don’t see either Black’s compensation or his threat. After:
1.Ne4 dxe4
2.Rxd8 Rexd8
3.Bxb6 Rdc8
4.Ba7 Ra8
5.Bc5 Nd5
… I’m having a hard time finding a move for White that doesn’t win on the spot.
You mean Nd4-d5xf4, right?
There’s nothing quite like nitpicking about somebody else’s game notation to guarantee that your correction itself will contain an error. Of course I should have written “Nb4-d5xf4.”
1. Ne4 wins because of the pin to the queen. If black doesn’t take back with the pawn and lose his queen his only other defence is Nd7to double up on the checking square on f6. either way white is going to win material because of the mate threat on h8.