Test your chess: Reitstein problem 38

Black to play and win

P Hills v MC Rubery1979

Solution

This is one of those positions that, where it a game, I might not even look for a tactical trick. (CJS Purdy would hate one of his readers saying this, because one of his constant mantras is to have a process, which includes the series of questions which are throughout this blog)

So, consider all biffs, and 1…Ng3! has to be looked at, and after 2 Kg3 one can see that white's king is in a bit of a net, so 1…Qe2!, with the lethal threat of Nh5+, and subsidiary threats such as Ne4+ (or Qd2 for that matter, with the fork Qd2 Ne4+).

Therefore, white can't take the knight, so black has won an important pawn, and weakened white's kingside at the same time.

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