I think now I should end the suspense and give you the two last puzzles of the puzzle road! Of course, I told you in the beginning I would post 42 puzzles, not 40 (!!) I hope you saw that they were missing 2 tactics! So, let’s continue and end with the pre-last puzzle. This incredibly beautiful extraordinary tactic is composed of 3 brilliant moves! Alright, coming from a blitz game, I’m surprised that Black did find the right moves to win and keep the advantage all over the game.
Overloading an opponent’s piece means that the piece has too much to do (like you would be busy to work or study) and cannot make correctly all the things we ask it to do. In this case, the queen needs to protect on one side the g2 square to avoid the checkmate, because the black queen, protected by the black bishop on b7 is attacking this g2-square where it would be checkmate for the white king and rapidly the end of the game in the case white does not correctly move the queen. On the other side, the white queen protects the c3-pawn, alone.
Welcome back to Puzzle Road!
I think now I should end the suspense and give you the two last puzzles of the puzzle road! Of course, I told you in the beginning I would post 42 puzzles, not 40 (!!) I hope you saw that they were missing 2 tactics!
So, let’s continue and end with the pre-last puzzle. This incredibly beautiful extraordinary tactic is composed of 3 brilliant moves! Alright, coming from a blitz game, I’m surprised that Black did find the right moves to win and keep the advantage all over the game.
41/ Surprise! 3 Brilliants for the pre-last puzzle! (Topic: overloading)
Overloading an opponent’s piece means that the piece has too much to do (like you would be busy to work or study) and cannot make correctly all the things we ask it to do. In this case, the queen needs to protect on one side the g2 square to avoid the checkmate, because the black queen, protected by the black bishop on b7 is attacking this g2-square where it would be checkmate for the white king and rapidly the end of the game in the case white does not correctly move the queen. On the other side, the white queen protects the c3-pawn, alone.
Check in my blog the solution! https://www.chess.com/blog/Kyu13/puzzle-road-surprise-3-brilliants-for-the-pre-last-puzzle-p41
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