Tuesday, May 14, 2024

PAUL KERES DID NOT MAKE IT

In the 1962 game Keres—Benko, Benko made a grave mistake 30...Bb8xg3??, and the following position was on the board (see below). Then, Keres also blundered, and Benko again made a mistake. Finally, Keres still won the game.

Can you win the position after 30...Bxg3??

Keres - Benko 1962. White to move.

If you are not a grandmaster, you may expect that if you do not move the pieces on the board and if you try to spend only 10 minutes on the solution, you will fail somewhere. 

Thus, relax and take it as a correspondence chess position: PUZZLE.

On Chesstempo's tactics section, this puzzle has the number 143468


A HINT: After the obvious 31 Qxg3! consider the replies 31...Qd5 and 31...Qe4.









In the present post, the Apronus chess software was used.

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