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By Steve | January 27, 2008
What is Black’s best move after 22.Nh5?
Fortunately my opponent in Round 1 of the Team 45 45 League’s T36 tournament didn’t figure out the answer.
4 Responses to “Hall of Shame entry”
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I'm a club player on the border between Class C and B. I play regularly at the
MetroWest Chess Club,
where I volunteer as a tournament director. My day job is at
The MathWorks, where I manage a
group that develops image processing software
based on MATLAB. I write regularly about image
processing and MATLAB on the MATLAB Central web site,
and I coauthored the book
Digital Image Processing Using MATLAB.
January 28th, 2008 at 8:55 pm
Although Ne2 is probably better why is Nh5 hall of shame entry?
January 28th, 2008 at 9:04 pm
Hi Navan—Well, I guess “Hall of Shame” sounds a little extreme. That’s just the name of my database of my own tactical oversights. This oversight wasn’t a game-loser, though. When I played Nh5, I had decided that being “forked” by …g6 would be OK after Rxf6 gxh5. But the evaluation goes down by almost a full pawn when Black meets Nh5 with Nxe4. I wasn’t happy with myself that I missed that “desperado” possibility. It would have opened up the position in a way that gave Black more chances to find counterplay.
January 29th, 2008 at 10:57 pm
Hi Steve,
I posted a comment yesterday. I can’t find it now. Yes, Nh5 gives unnecessary chances for counter play.
March 12th, 2008 at 5:24 am
There was a comment posted last night here asking me about a MetroWest Chess Club member. I’ve removed that comment since it contained personal, speculative information. I do not have any information about that member.