Thursday, 29 May 2025

Meeting Blunder With Blunder

Even though I ended up winning this game, I missed a wonderful opportunity when Black blundered. This is shown in Figure 1 where I thought I'd blundered by allowing my Queen and Bishop to be forked by the Black pawn.


Figure 1

I captured the pawn with my Bishop, reasoning that I'd at least get two pawns for my lost piece. However, this was a blunder because capturing with the Knight leads to a catastrophe for Black if he captures my Knight. The Black King is brutally exposed and must block the Bishop's protection of the Knight. See Figure 2.


Figure 2

I totally missed this unfortunately but it goes to show how great opportunities can be missed. I'm currently rated at 1464 after two wins and one loss for the day.

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