A tricky one

Posted on June 12, 2012 by Nicholas Gruen
Posted in Chess

White to play
D Tomic vs F Winzbeck 44. ? See game for solution. Difficulty Scale
about our puzzles

Still, perhaps not so tricky if you're used to solving these puzzles.

3 Comments

  1. Tony
    June 13, 2012

    Never knew you could "queen" a bishop, so to speak.

  2. JB Cairns
    June 13, 2012

    Tony,

    it is all the rage with some Anglicans these days

  3. Nicholas Gruen
    June 13, 2012

    'Queening' a pawn and electing to have a knight is a fairly standard routine in puzzles and the odd game because knights can often finesse any stalemate problems that arise. Funnily enough - and this is pretty weird - I was thinking in the shower just yesterday "I wonder if there are any situations where it makes sense to promote a pawn to something other than a queen or knight (because the queen has the powers of both a rook and a bishop, so it's not easy to think of how promoting to those pieces could be better. But sure enough . . . .