book 2 chess puzzle 1

http://www.chesspuzzlebook.com/ A chess puzzle from my upcoming book Chess Puzzles for the Casual Player, Volume 2.

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• tactics
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[josef1011]

I'm the first one to favorite this!

[casualchessplayer]

Thanks!

[ZsSuperCumulo]

yeah but 1 knight doesnt counter 2 pawns in the late game -_-

[casualchessplayer]

There are still alot of pieces on the board besides a Knight and 2 Pawns. Also Black's pawns are not very far advanced. So, White has the advantage. I posted some chess engine vs chess engine games to illustrate. See chesspuzzlebook dot com/book2game1/book2game1cont.­htm

[TheChessproblems]

yes but he has got doubled pawns

[SuperDreamliner787]

@chessleach Hi! If you want to get the knight on e4, you would have to attack the knight with a piece which has less value. And the only piece which has less value as a knight, is a pawn. I calculated with Rybka 4. And if you would play Nc3, the piece isn´t won, because black can just play something like Qb4 and it´s fine. The following continuation would be: 1. Nxe4 dxe4 2. Rxe4 Qxb2 and all is fine for black!

[jasonosaj00]

lol, why would black put white square bishop in that position? Very premature move and useless, lol

[chessleach]

why f3, if you can do Nc3?

[ChessMaster453]

Great Puzzle!!

[Darrowthebassman]

Thank you for the response.

[JustAnotherPers0n]

both

[DamnControl2]

If Bxe7, would that be also good?

[irvpat]

Should one study to become a good positional chessplayer or a good tactical chess player and why?

[smoke12316]

nice job! keep up the good work.

this one is heading to my favorite list