29 November 2013

The price of greed, or: let us roar at Fritz

Let us roar at Fritz. The Gabridoodle is white here, and obviously it isn't looking good for him.

Gabridoodle to move... He snaffles up Fritz's b4 pawn with his queen, hoping that Fritz will get greedy and then pay the price.

And it works, roar ! Instead of moving a rook to the 8th rank to protect his king from a back ranker (or advancing a pawn to create an escape square for his king), Fritz grabs the unprotected rook at d1. The Gabridoodle's queen then goes to b8, roar, roar, roar. Check, snaffle one rook, check again, snaffle the other rook: checkmate. Roar.