Chess Strategy #6 - Timing The Attack! (Chess Strategy Series) by Mikhail Cugovsky

Author:Mikhail Cugovsky [Cugovsky, Mikhail]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: The Bookman
Published: 2012-04-11T16:00:00+00:00

Portisch played the startling...

1. Ba5 Qe7 or else the f6 bishop is lost

[ 1. …. Qxa5 loses to mate on g7 after 2. Qxf6 Qe1+, 3. Kh2]

2. Nd7! and Black had to resign.

[If 2. …. Qxd7 3. Qxf6 and the mate on g7 is unstoppable and if 2. … Bh8, 3. Qb8+ wins]

5 Conquest – Plaskett, Hastings 1988/9

Viewed from Black’s side of the board

White has a discovered check available – but it’s Black’s move.

Would you think that an attack would be inconclusive?

Plaskett played

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