GP Tactics: Counting/Removal of the Guard Tactic
{ Edit: Whoops, a last-minute picture swap introduced the wrong position. Fixed now--GP}
Continuing (at long last) with the theme of simple tactics data-mined from my own games, here’s a position that seems straight out of Heisman. If I can find where the heck I left my copy of his Back to Basics: Tactics, I have a nagging suspicion that he’s covered the same tactic. Analyze 1.Bg5:
Solution after the fold
1.Bg5? and my opponent missed 1…Bxf3, a removal of the guard motif. Pretty simple stuff, even if it’s an ICC blitz game. I had probably just calculated 1…Qxg5 2.Nxg5 Bxd1 3.Kxg1 and stopped there without counting through other move orders--sloppy. Not that it would have given much of an advantage even then.
3 comments:
It looks like your diagram is not for the original position but instead the end of the variation you calculated.
Thanks, my bad. The first board position I had up was poor resolution. When I saved a higher-res graphic from ChessBase I didn't spot that I had moved forwards through the tactic.
Is the move 3.Kxd1 instead on 3.Kxg1? :) Also, do you have an idea of when you are going to post a blogpost again?
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