Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Practical chess tactic


Black to move. How should black proceed?

Hanley vs Koneru, 2012

13 comments:

Anonymous said...

...Nf4+ gxf4 Qh3+ Kg1 Nf3+
very nice

opiniao said...

Nf4+ and the game is over :)

... Nf4+
gxf4 Qh3+
Kg1 Nf3+ :)

Anonymous said...

Nf4+ gxf4 or loses Q
Qh3+ Kg1
Nf3+ Qxf3 losing Q for two Ns

Anup said...

1. ... Nf4
2. gxf Qh3+
3. Kg1 Nf3+
4. Qf3 Qf3

Anonymous said...

2 Knights for the white queen.

1. ... Nf4+
if 2. gxf4 Qh3+
3. Kg1 Nf3+

Anonymous said...

... Nf4+
gf Qh3+
Kg1 Nf3+

Yancey Ward said...

How about Nf4+?

1. .....Nf4+
2. gf4 Qh3+
3. Kg1 Nf3+ wins white's queen for two pieces.

mshroder said...

1. ... Nf4+
2. gxf4 Qh3+
3. Kg1 Nf3+
4. Qxf3 Rxf3 mate soon

It helped a lot to see what white's last move was. Koneru effectively trapped the white queen.

Mark

Morsa said...

1. ... Nf4+! 2. gf4 Qh3+ 3. Kg1 Nf3 wins easily 0-1

redbeard said...

1. ... d5-f4+
2. g3xf4
(if g2-h2 or g2-h1 or g2-g1, f4xe2)
... c3-h3+
3. g2-g1 g5-h3 ++

Ramón said...

Kt to f4

S.K.Srivastava said...

1knight forks K & Q 2 queen ch 3 mate

Richard Schwartz said...

Black gets the White Queen for two Knights:

1. ... Nf4+
2. gxf4 Qh3+
3. Kg1 Nf3+
4. Qxf3 Qxf3