Chapter 36: Death on the Diagonal
I am reading How to Beat Your Dad at Chess by Murray Chandler. I am blogging to create supporting puzzles in studying the content.
After many planned openings, a dark-squared 
that controls the long diagonal from a1 to h8.
A duo of and 
is particularly threatening on the long diagonal when is in front of the bishop. This threaten mates on g7 or h8. Even when mate is prevented, Black can rather lose a piece to 
that threatens mate.
149) Black has a weakness to be exploited by resulting in avoidable mate.
150) White has the opportunity to ignore the threat to 
and attack with , resulting in deflected and set up for the unavoidable mate described in 149.
and attack with 
, resulting in 
deflected and set up for the unavoidable mate described in 149.151) White can make trouble on the backrank to get the lethal -backed on the long diagonal
-backed on the long diagonal152) Black has options with this pattern, too. Here, not only protects but backs up for a long diagonal mate.
not only protects but backs up for a long diagonal mate.My blog | Chapter 35: Greek Gift Sacrifice (advanced version)
