The diagram shows the position after black moved 6. ... Nd7. Of course, I missed the winning combination and ended up losing in the endgame after falling for a simple knight fork - when will I ever learn to avoid these? It always works the same way: I see that my opponent has chances to fork, say, my king and rook in the endgame and make a defensive move, thinking "I don't fall into this kind of trap anymore!" After the knight makes one or two more hops around my rook, however, I forget about it and lose my rook to a fork.

Back to the position shown from the beginning of the game. How can white secure the win?

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written by patrick, December 20, 2006

queen checky! bishop taketh g6. how embarrassing for black!

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written by Sciurus, December 22, 2006

Correct! Even more embarrassing for me (white) after spending all this time doing tactics puzzles at CTS, though

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written by dwv16, December 25, 2006

I devoted almost all my chess study this past year to tactics, tactics, tactics. And have gotten pretty good at solving tactical problems. But during a game I'm barely better than I used to be.

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written by Sciurus, December 26, 2006

dwv16:
Don't worry too much - after all you just won against me!

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