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Saturday, January 16, 2021

Moving into an Absolute Pin a Good Move in this Game

 In the below position, reached at a blitz game played at the Pennsylvania USA internet chess club, White had played pawn to g4 voluntarily moving into a pin on his King on a semi open g file occupied by Black's King and Rook. Sounds like a horrible decision doesn't it FM Zaur Tekeyev?

BTW the money is to be made at online streaming places like Twitch Mr Tekeyev, not writing paper books on 25 elementary tactics everybody should know. Where the the hell did you get twenty five dude? Are those the only 25 you know?

I bet players stronger than you do not know the trivial distinction between a relative and absolute pin.


In any event, see if you can see why a logical looking move like Qg5 is a blunder. Hint: Transform the the absolute pin into a winning relative pin!

Finally the most underrated resource on the internet is Norbert Thomas. The affable German has magnificent pedagogical ability and is a strong advocate regarding the social aspect of the game we all love!


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