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16th November 2009, 11:20am
#1
by rooperi
Pretoria South Africa
Member Since: Mar 2009
Member Points: 4882

Found this study, by Frantisef Josef Prokop, Third Prize Moscow international tournament, 1925. White to play and draw. It's pretty neat, but I dont understand why white does not just promote to Queen on move 1?
16th November 2009, 11:29am
#2
by Crazychessplaya
Warsaw Poland
Member Since: May 2009
Member Points: 2049

White gets blown away after 1...Qe3 2.Kd5 Qd3 3.Kc5 Be3 5.Kb4 BxN

16th November 2009, 11:36am
#3
by RainbowRising
United Kingdom
Member Since: Oct 2008
Member Points: 3876

Yes. White will definately respond to blacks attack before literally taking black's king with his knight.

16th November 2009, 11:38am
#4
by SavageLotus
In front of a computer International
Member Since: Sep 2009
Member Points: 183

Maybe it was because it would have handed the tempo to black(allowing him to begin to check/fork whit's king and black didn't want to allow that) Maybe it was just a blunder? I don't know.

19th November 2009, 08:47am
#5
by nutcrusher
Selangor Malaysia
Member Since: Aug 2009
Member Points: 2

The reason is simple, White would have to lose the Knight and the end game also!

nuts.

22nd November 2009, 11:53pm
#6
by NinjaBear
Salt Lake City (USA) China
Member Since: Oct 2007
Member Points: 863

f8=Q, loses the knight. After black trades the white bishop with any other piece then checkmate is inevitable. B+N (or B+B checkmate if white takes pawn with bishop). I believe some responses above already address this.
 
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