Saturday, September 27, 2008

Tactical Motif III: Decoy

Decoy ( fr: Attraction) consists in luring a piece to a particular mined square.
Here's an example: White to play and win


Alekhine-West 1923










1Qh7+!! lures the King to a bad square.
1..Kh7
2Rg7+! Rg7
3Nf6+ Kg6
4 Bh5# Magnificent combination by the genius Alekhine, well ahead of his time.
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Now White to play and win using this theme (and also motif II Deflection)

Ex: Schmidt-Heidelberg 1946

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

1. Rh5!+; Kxh5
2. f4+; Nxe2
3. Nf6+; Kh6
4. Rh1+; Kg7
5. Ne8+!; Rxe8
6. Rxh7+; Kf6(8)
7. Rxf7#

chess_planet said...

Excellent work!

5Ne8+! is a difficult move to see.
Well done !