tonydal wrote:
Additionally, this is possibly just a case of my little flesh-and-blood chimp brain going on the fritz (so to speak)--but what does the Mighty German give as the continuation after 1... Kxf7? Frankly, I don't get it.
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Many thanks for your reply, Tony.
According to the mighty German, 1...Kxf7 gives draw by perpetual, after
19.Qd5+ Ke8 20.Qe6+ Kf8 21.Qf5+ Ke8 22.Qe6+
In this case, my point was that the "winning sacrifice" was apparently not so winning (unless there is a fault in Fritz's analysis, of course), and I just wanted to understand if this is the case.
Thanks again for reading and for your comments, which are really appreciated indeed!
Cheers,
Andrea
Hi all, hope all is well with you all.
I was going through the first game in "Logical Chess move by move" (I. Chernev): after 17...Bxf2 (position below) white resigned, and Chernev comment is: "Black's threat was 18...Qh3+ 19.Nh2 Qxh2#. As 18.Rxf2 runs into 18...Nxf2#, there was no escape".
Actually, Fritz is saying that White could have saved the game with =/+ (-0.47): 18.Bxf7+ (refer to the moves stored in the diagram).
What is your take? It sounds weird to me that Chernev could have "blundered" like this during his analysis...
Thanks in advance for any comments!
Andrea