Learn from my mistakes - puzzle #1
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kna4. disaster.
A very nice combination by Black. I think the only right move for White was Kc1 (or perhaps there were other better moves), although trading Queens was very tempting.
I don't know wether I would have made the same mistake if I were you, but I usually
like to trade Queens as early as possible.
Ouch. Then Kxc3 would fork the King and Rook also.
I've been going through some of my old games and thought some of my mistakes might make reasonable puzzles, so here goes. A simple one first. In this position I played Qc3 to block the check from the Queen at f6. Why was this a very bad idea?