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Meglet Feb 2021 4:09pm, 11 Feb 2021 21,577 posts	Quote Pin Meglet Sorry, Kxf3
Diogenes Feb 2021 4:30pm, 11 Feb 2021 57,461 posts	Quote Pin Diogenes f5 then castle?
bish Feb 2021 4:39pm, 11 Feb 2021 213 posts	Quote Pin bish Knight move first...
JulesR Feb 2021 5:45pm, 11 Feb 2021 25,949 posts	Quote Pin JulesR So as Bish says it’s NxB+ first move, but what’s the follow up move that my opp didn’t have a chance to make as I’d resigned by then?
JulesR Feb 2021 5:45pm, 11 Feb 2021 25,950 posts	Quote Pin JulesR Sorry - Knight takes Knight check
Surelynot Feb 2021 6:03pm, 11 Feb 2021 2,052 posts	Quote Pin Surelynot pd4?
JulesR Feb 2021 6:20pm, 11 Feb 2021 25,951 posts	Quote Pin JulesR Yes, forking my Knight & Bishop. The first NxN move clears it out of the way with check, for the pawn push to make the fork.
Surelynot Feb 2021 6:30pm, 11 Feb 2021 2,053 posts	Quote Pin Surelynot With the black queen lurking on the same file. Dangerous bacon, as they say.
Daddy Shark Feb 2021 6:58pm, 11 Feb 2021 848 posts	Quote Pin Daddy Shark Interesting puzzle JulesR. Also interesting to me is that you resigned. Unless I'm missing something, the exchanges leave black two/three points up (in purely material terms; the difference being whether the queen gets involved) with not much off the board. Down at my level (and against people up to 1200 IME) that is plenty of game left for a blunder to even things up (whether I'm the blunderer or the blunderee). Is it really the case that around 1700 there is definitely only one winner once that exchange happens? Or is there something else at play here (like honour/convention)?
JulesR Feb 2021 7:07pm, 11 Feb 2021 25,952 posts	Quote Pin JulesR Fair point DS. I’d just played the reverse colour game against same opp & he’s pretty decent although I had the better of him in a draw. Here Id have little compensation for the piece, maybe a pawn & certainly no positional compensation like any pressure from me. Analysis had me at about -3 with best play & to be fair there was a pawn push h5 on kingside that it liked (the move that I should played instead of Be3) I was annoyed to have messed up the opening, so ‘wrote the game off’ as a learning experience & won’t get that move wrong again next time. Whether one should play on when material down is a whole other discussion that we had the other day on the main thread I think. Definitely play on when representing Fetch teams:)