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Wednesday, February 27, 2019

Zwischenzug (solve this problem!)

We went over the Famous Checkmates worksheet.
Then we had a lesson on the tactic known as Zwischenzug, followed by a worksheet on that.
Here's a problem I put on the display board - find White's best move.


White would like to put some pressure on the black king. He can threaten checkmate with Qf3, Qf4 or Qh5. Which works best?
a) 1. Qf4 Re3 pretty much stops the threat
b) 1. Qh5 looks more powerful because you are also attacking Black's bishop, but Black plays Be7 saving the bishop and stopping checkmate.
c) 1. Qf3 is a fork threatening mate and the black queen, but black can trade queens (or so Black thinks!)  Qxf3. But White has a Zwischenzug move up his sleeve. He's going to take the queen, but not just yet. Can you find the move?

I dropped a few students who haven't been here in months.


Grade Rank Name 27-Feb
8 1 Owen 1081
7 2 Luke 980
7 3 Graham 599
5 4 Shanmuka 517
? 5 Elijah 419
5 6 Billy 400
? 7 Amanuel 354
6 8 Tyler 309
6 9 Zach 274
5 10 Carlos 242
5 11 Adrien 231
6 12 Justin 178
? 13 Bisrat 156
5 14 Manogna 154
6 15 Sahasra 148
? 16 Benny 132
5 17 David 116
? 18 Sam 100
? 19 Nahom 100

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