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Aug 2021
5:31pm, 5 Aug 2021
10,586 posts
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jda
Embarrassed to say I missed it though I like to think I’d still have won from that position 
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Aug 2021
6:29pm, 5 Aug 2021
26,552 posts
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JulesR
The move was Nd4 discovered check & white resigned, as Kh1 leads to the famous smothered mate after Nc2+, Nxa3+, Qb1+ and Nc2 mate.
If b3 after Nd4+ then Qc2+ wins
White’s best option is QxB but that’s a Queen down
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Aug 2021
9:13pm, 5 Aug 2021
21,947 posts
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Meglet
Jules please can you repost the pic so its on the same page and i can work it through?
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Aug 2021
9:16pm, 5 Aug 2021
35,055 posts
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SPR
Anyone can post public pics
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Aug 2021
9:21pm, 5 Aug 2021
21,949 posts
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Meglet
thanks, got it now. I had Nd2+, Qb1+ to box in the K but couldnt get the final moves from that. so fairly close!
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Aug 2021
1:42pm, 23 Aug 2021
10,674 posts
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jda
In a recent game, my opponent offered to exchange pawn, knight and rook with with ...e5
What happened next?
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Aug 2021
2:03pm, 23 Aug 2021
1,535 posts
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BrianJ
I can see it, but only after a good think!
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Aug 2021
7:52pm, 23 Aug 2021
26,612 posts
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JulesR
I was wondering when exactly it dawned on James’s Opp what was coming towards him!
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Aug 2021
8:28pm, 23 Aug 2021
10,675 posts
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jda
The solution for those who haven't seen is that after my P, N and R take on e5 (and black takes back with N, R and Q) my move Re1 leaves his queen embarrassed as he can't defend the e8 square. Black resigned at this point.
I hadn't seen it at all until I just played through the obvious moves and then suddenly....oh, that looks nice
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Aug 2021
8:46pm, 23 Aug 2021
10,676 posts
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jda
I think there's an interesting lesson, in that in his eagerness to simplify, black swapped off his developed pieces leaving himself with R+B on their home squares and an exposed Q that invited harassment. So it wasn't entirely down to luck that the opportunity appeared at that point.
The other lesson is, always play through lines of forced/semi-forced moves like a sequence of captures, to see where you end up
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