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How to Play Chess OPenings, Chapter 1.  The book is written in descriptive notation, so I may have gotten it wrong, but I cannot understand  how the black Knight captures  the white Queen.

1. P-K4   P-K4

2.P-Q4   PXP

3. QXP  Kt-QB3

4. Q-K3  Kt-B3

5. P-K5  Kt-KKt5

6.Q-K2  P-Q4

7. PXP (ep ch) B-K3

8.PXP  Q-Q8ch

9. KxQ  Kt xP ch

10 K-K1  Kt x Q

What I cannot position is how in the 10th move, Black Knight captures the Quuen.

Can anyone post what the Board looks like after move 9?

Thank you. I am able to follow the next openings in the descriptive notation , but this first one has me stumped. I know it s probably something very simple I am missing.

Thanks for any help!

Martin_Stahl

It has to be an error of some sort. 8. ... Q-Q8ch is a blunder in that line.

Martin_Stahl

Oh, wait. I figured it out. Just looked at the book. The text wasn't actually looking at the Q-K2 line. That was just a question to ponder. The line it is actually looking at is the Q-K4 one. This is the actual position after move 9.



porgy

Thank you, Martin!

It was driving me crazy.  But I should have played through - as you did - from the preceding  moves, and ignored the question.

I hope the rest of the book is not as tricky.

Thank you again.