Carlsen strikes

Posted by Nicholas Gruen on Friday, March 19, 2010

White to play
Carlsen vs J Smeets

33. ?
See game for solution.
Difficulty Scale

From the Amberchess blindfold comp. I couldn’t work it out – and I could see!

And a nice little immortal game by Kasparov here.



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2 Responses to “Carlsen strikes”

  1. Steve Edney said:

    1. Bg5 (threatening 2. Rd6#)
    1. … Rd7 2. Rxd7 Kxd7 3. e6+ Ke8 4 Rd2 (threatening Rd8#)

  2. Steve Edney said:

    and I see I got it right. Took about 15 minutes though which would have probably run me out of time – not to mention I knew there was something to look for and could see!

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