12 September 2010
Hello Everyone,
Did you have a ‘chessy weekend’? Here is a nice puzzle to wrap off the Sunday chess cheer. Enjoy!
In the given position Black can easily win by simply taking the Rook on e6. But he wanted too much (possibly) and decided to go for a checkmate threat. So, he played Qc3 threatening to take the Rook on a1 and finish off the game.
Now, White resigned!
Now, look at the position after Qc3 and tell us did White actually need to resign or he could turn the tables and actually win. This is from an actual game played in Berlin in the mid-twentieth century but we couldn’t find more details.
You can run the moves in the flashplayer if you cannot find the ‘magic move’.
From Alexandra Kosteniuk’s
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