Carlsen strikes

Posted on March 19, 2010 by Nicholas Gruen
Posted in Chess

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.

2 Comments

  1. Steve Edney
    March 25, 2010

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

  2. Steve Edney
    March 25, 2010

    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!