Chess960 produces some really unusual midgame positions! Sometimes midgames emerge that appear to be loosing except for a specific tactical line that is most unusual. This forum is for sharing these situations. Feel free to add examples or comment.
In this example, black is about to loose a rook. The position is really unusual and a human player could easily resign here if they are not in a positive frame of mind. Fantastically though, black has a great resource and is in fact significantly in the lead, winning in fact.
White to play:
Please note that this position is highly unusual in a standard chess sense! White's bishop is locked in at a1 for starters and this allows one of the good old smothered mates we have grown to love (you should take a look at it in one of the variations). Isn't it beautiful how white's queen and rook are so completely out of the game! Whites best move 37.a3 illustrates this beautifully (please take a look at it in the variation list). All along white's queen and rook do not move, they cannot move! The line indicated is actually only the simplest of the lines in this variation.
Chess960 produces some really unusual midgame positions! Sometimes midgames emerge that appear to be loosing except for a specific tactical line that is most unusual. This forum is for sharing these situations. Feel free to add examples or comment.
In this example, black is about to loose a rook. The position is really unusual and a human player could easily resign here if they are not in a positive frame of mind. Fantastically though, black has a great resource and is in fact significantly in the lead, winning in fact.
White to play:
Please note that this position is highly unusual in a standard chess sense! White's bishop is locked in at a1 for starters and this allows one of the good old smothered mates we have grown to love (you should take a look at it in one of the variations). Isn't it beautiful how white's queen and rook are so completely out of the game! Whites best move 37.a3 illustrates this beautifully (please take a look at it in the variation list). All along white's queen and rook do not move, they cannot move! The line indicated is actually only the simplest of the lines in this variation.
Enjoy.
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