Daily Rome Shot 1060

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Black to move and mate in 3.

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In chessy news, bad news. Twice in OTB this week I’ve totally blown two games which I was completely winning against two strong players with piece blunders. In each case it was a problem of lack of focus, rather, total focus on one idea and missing the shockingly obvious blunder. In the second game, I determined to fight back hard and try to salvage the game, since the blunder did, in fact, work as a sac that improved my position (another thing I hadn’t seen). I got used aggressive counterplay, and, with a tactic, won a piece back. But my opponent had too many pawns.

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Meanwhile, 10-year old Faustino Oro seems to be poised to become the youngest ever IM. He has also superseded 2400 on chess.com in … Rapid, I think. I read of him that he learned to play 4 years ago. “Alejandro Oro, Faustino’s father, has previously said that to prevent his son from kicking a ball inside their home during lockdown he created an account for him on Chess.com.” He’s 3000 in Blitz. Scary.

In Bucharest, Romania, the second event of the Grand Chess Tour has begun. This is a 10-player single round-robin from 26 June-5 July. Magnus and Hikaru are not there, but present and ready for battle are Fabiano Caruana, Ian Nepomniachtchi, Gkesh, Pragg, Anish, MVL, “Puer”, Nodirbek, and my guy Wesley So, for whom I hope all the readership is pulling. No draw offers allowed. Prize pool $350K. 1st: $100K. G/120+30.

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  1. Synonymous_Howard says:

    1. … Ne3+
    2. dxe3 Bg4+
    3. Ne2 Qxe2#

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