You can feel it, but can't see it

Submitted by davidetal on Tue, 09/23/2008 at 5:51pm.

Sometimes your intuition just yells at you about a situation: there is a combination here, so find it!!! So you turn on the brain and look and look...

In this Blitz game -5/5 - I spent 3 minutes looking for the right response to his 8 h3. My intuition was yelling, but I just couldnt find the combination, eventually playing the lame 8...Bxf3, ending up with loss under massive time pressure.

But I think I have found it now:) Yeah? I am Very Sure that I'm not the first to find this, and it probably has a name.

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by Rhinotillexomaniac - 2 months ago
Redlands United States

Member Since: Oct 2008
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Isn't 18...Qg2 mate?

Cool idea. I will defintely study this a bit.

by davidetal - 3 months ago
Tarragindi Australia

Member Since: Jan 2008
Member Points: 1204

einstein

Interesting! And good for White, as you show. I had a very close look 11...f5 but could not make it work. 12 g3 (to prevent Qh4) Qd3 (threatening Qxg3, because f2 is pinned) but after 13 Qf3 White is solid.

Looks like - except in Blitz perhaps - Black is forced to retreat his B or exchange for the N. Oh well:) Thanks for the great response/analysis!

by einstein_69101 - 3 months ago
Lincoln, Nebraska United States

Member Since: Dec 2007
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davidetal

8...h5 does look like an interesting try but I think white is ok with this. :) What do you think? :)

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