Not a move I would have played

Posted on September 20, 2009 by Nicholas Gruen
Posted in Chess

White to play
Imbaud vs Strumilo 9. ? See game for solution.

2 Comments

  1. Nicholas Gruen
    September 20, 2009

    The only think I would have liked is for White to have played 22. B f6 and it could have met my (arbitrary) criteria of an immortal game - where the only pieces left on the winning side are a bunch of minor pieces all necessary for the mate.

  2. TimT
    September 25, 2009

    Couldn't be bothered clicking through to the game as that website usually crashes the software over here, but I'm guessing it's 9. N(f3)xe5, anticipating 9.... B(h5)xQ, 10. Bxf7+, K-e7 11. B-g4+ winning the Queen back. Actually that's virtually forced so of course that's what it's going to be unless there's some whacky bizarre out there move only a Kasparov could see.