How to Think and Win at Chess » Miniatures http://chessthinking.com Self-Actualization Through Chess Tue, 13 Oct 2009 03:04:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Annotated Miniature 3: Gedult – Sachs http://chessthinking.com/2009/09/27/annotated-miniature-3-gedult-sachs/ http://chessthinking.com/2009/09/27/annotated-miniature-3-gedult-sachs/#comments Sun, 27 Sep 2009 05:25:54 +0000 Chessiq http://www.chessthinking.com/?p=298
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    This is a Queens Gambit Declined game. White sacrifices a pawn for rapid development. Black picks up two pawns and sort of gives up a piece hoping to trick White into a a checkmate position. He ends up being checkmated as he protects his Queen at the expense of the King! Comments are welcome.

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    In this game, Black starts an attack with insufficient forces. His Knight and Bishop are chased back. The Knight gets pinned and then attacked by a pawn. It is ironic that White wins with an attack similar to what Black had envisioned and tried unsuccessfully: Bishop and Knight attacking the c-pawn on its initial position!

    On move 10. Black could have tried 10… Bxe4 to attack g2 and d5 (thus protecting c6). However, that is refuted by 11. Nxc7+ Kd7 12. dxc++ Kxc6 13. Qe2! (This threatens mate on b5 and attacks the Bishop on e4. May be the solutions is to give up the Queen for the Knight at some point.

    Jacob Henry Sarratt vs NN
    England 1818 · Queen Pawn Game: Sarratt Attack (D00) · 1-0

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