Daily Chess Improvement: Quickie Chess Tactic!

SusanPolgar

Black to move!

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KarthikM

Nov 26, 2018

Found Qxd3 right away, but 2. Re1 Qxd1 3. Rxd1 e5 etc. take a while to look at.

Yancey_Ward

Editor

Nov 25, 2018

I certainly see 1.....Qxd3 in 5 seconds, but it takes me longer to make sure it is actually good and that there isn't anything better.

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