New Book for complete beginners and 'My Chess Career', part V
First a little announcement. I have just published a new workbook with 1000 mate-in-one puzzles for complete beginners. Check it out!
I have filtered out and selected the highest user-rated mate-in-one puzzles from the Lichess puzzle database. The easiest puzzle is rated around 600 (Lichess puzzle-rating) and the difficulty goes up to around 2000+ at the end of the book. It is of course a big help knowing it is mate in one! The puzzles are arranged so they gradually increase in difficulty.
My guess is most of the readers of the newsletter are not complete beginners, but maybe you have kids and want to give them some puzzles to work on or maybe you want to challenge your spouse to potentially start a chess addiction! I will try to get my own kids solving them.. time will tell if I succeed.
If you are waiting on the next book in The Tactics Ladder I can tell you I’m working on it.
'My Chess Career', part V
GAME No. 5.
Albert Whiting Fox vs. J. R. Capablanca, 0-1
Link to Lichess study
Date: November 10, 1906.
Opening: Ruy Lopez.
1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nf6 4. O-O Be7 5. Re1 d6 6. d4 exd4 7. Nxd4 Bd7 8. Nc3 O-O 9. Nde2
9… Re8 10. Ng3 Ne5 11. Bxd7 Qxd7 12. f4 Ng6 13. Nf5 Bf8
14. Qd3 Rad8 If 14... Nxe4 15. Rxe4 Qxf5 16. Rxe8 Qxd3 17. Rxf8+ Followed by cxd3, and White is a piece ahead.
15. Bd2 d5
The beginning of a fine combination. If 16. exd5 Rxe1+ 17. Rxe1 Nxd5; and it looks as though White must lose a Pawn.
16. e5 Bc5+ 17. Kh1 Ng4 18. Nd1 f6!
The crowning move in the combination. If 19. exf6 Nxf4 20. Ne7+ Rxe7 21. fxe7 Nxd3 22. exd8=Q+ Qxd8 23. cxd3 Qh4 24. h3 Qg3; and mate in a few moves. And if, instead of 20. Rxe8+ Rxe8 21. Qc3 Qxf5 22. Qxc5 Ne2 wins.
19. h3 Nf2+ 20. Nxf2 Bxf2 21. Re2 fxe5 22. Rxf2 e4
23. Nh6+ gxh6 24. Qd4 Qg7 25. Qxa7
A bad move, Bc3 would have given White a fighting chance.
25... Qxb2 26. Re1 d4 27. f5 e3 28. Rfe2 Nf4 29. Bc1 Qb6 30. Qa4 Nxe2 31. Qc4+ Kh8 32. Rxe2 Qa6 33. Qd3 Qxd3 34. cxd3 c5 35. g4 c4
Resigns
I’m trying to invest some time in studying for my upcoming tournament, so I have decided to exclude the post mortem of the game, but feel free to discuss the game in the study or in the comments.
/Martin