Coffeehouse Chess Tactics by John Healy

Author:John Healy
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, azw3, pdf
Publisher: New in Chess

Black has achieved the main aims of opening play – to mobilise the army, castle the king into safety and keep control over the centre of the board, where the pieces have their greatest activity and where they can be rapidly deployed to any sector of the board.

12.Re1 Nxd4 13.Nxd4 Qxd4 14.Qxd4 Bxd4 15.Bh6 Bg7 16.Bxg7 Kxg7 17.Rxe7 Bd7 18.Rae1 Rae8 19.f4 Rxe7 20.Rxe7

Coffeehouse players often refer to rooks as pigs – because once behind enemy lines, they can gobble up enemy pawns – and here, White believes he has a big advantage, because he can stick one on the seventh. But the seventh rank is not always “absolute”, in fact sometimes, it is no prize at all.

20…Bc6 21.Kf2 Kf6

To expel the rook. Now White should have withdrawn it, and, after Black plays 22…Re8, exchanges follow, with every likelihood of a draw. But unshakeable in his belief in the seventh heaven, and the promised joys reputed to come thereafter, he played

22.Rc7? Na8

losing the exchange (i.e. rook for bishop or knight).

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