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16th August 2008, 06:40pm
#1
by Marshal_Dillon
New Jersey United States
Member Since: Apr 2008
Member Points: 407

16th August 2008, 06:51pm
#2
by DPG1232
Montreal Canada
Member Since: May 2008
Member Points: 394

I'm sure you're White here, right?

16th August 2008, 07:49pm
#3
by NM tonydal
United States
Member Since: Oct 2007
Member Points: 1324

11 cd followed by e5 wins a piece

 

25 Be4+ Kh6 26 Rg6+ Kh7 27 Qf7+

16th August 2008, 08:32pm
#4
by Marshal_Dillon
New Jersey United States
Member Since: Apr 2008
Member Points: 407

tonydal wrote:

11 cd followed by e5 wins a piece

 

25 Be4+ Kh6 26 Rg6+ Kh7 27 Qf7+

What is cd? 

17th August 2008, 12:09pm
#5
by NM tonydal
United States
Member Since: Oct 2007
Member Points: 1324

cxd6 (en passant)

17th August 2008, 12:30pm
#6
by RandomPrecision
Illinois United States
Member Since: Feb 2008
Member Points: 174

I think I like 24. Bxd4.  Keeping both bishops trained on that corner seems like a powerful advantage, and you don't need to lose the knight.

 

However - I didn't see it through this far, but I checked with a computer to make sure I wasn't missing anything by Bxd4 - it turns out, there's a mate in 9-ish from black's 20th move.

Here was a line of what I originally thought with Bxd4:

 

 

 

 

 

 

And this is what my computer had to say about this game after 20...bxc5 :

 
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