{"id":15231,"date":"2025-12-15T22:19:21","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T05:19:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/tiny-moves-white-to-move-and-win\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T21:46:40","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T03:46:40","slug":"tiny-moves-white-to-move-and-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/tiny-moves-white-to-move-and-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Tiny moves: White to move and win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image naviga-align-left alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=c43fcb15-7b54-5579-bcac-0ef821147204&#038;function=cover&#038;type=preview&#038;source=false&#038;width=2000\" width=\"609\" height=\"611\" alt=\"\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cTiny Tim, you mischievous devil,\u201d snarled Scrooge.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow, now,\u201d chided the Ghost of Christmas Future from behind Scrooge\u2019s chair.<\/p>\n<p>Playing black, Scrooge thought the game was won with his queen against white\u2019s bishop and knight. But the devilish Tiny Tim \u2013 standing rather than sitting at the chessboard \u2013 uncorked a pin-and-fork combination to win.<\/p>\n<p>With that hint, try to find Tiny Tim\u2019s winning combination.<\/p>\n<p>In this week\u2019s position, Scrooge\u2019s queen dominated the board. It was poised to promote a pawn and crush white like a poorly wrapped gift under a Christmas tree.<\/p>\n<p>Tiny, however, nimbly placed his bishop on f2, seemingly giving it away. Scrooge saw the bishop \u2013 though undefended \u2013 pinned his queen to the king. He didn\u2019t need to take the bishop to see the follow-up: knight to d3, forking the queen and king. Either way, white\u2019s bishop would trade for black\u2019s queen (see next diagram).<\/p>\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image naviga-align-left alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=d6c64036-55a2-5bed-b88e-dc9df575ad02&#038;function=cover&#038;type=preview&#038;source=false&#038;width=2000\" width=\"611\" height=\"612\" alt=\"\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cWell played,\u201d Scrooge exclaimed with a forced smile, as the Ghost of Christmas Future patted Scrooge on the back.<\/p>\n<p>This week\u2019s lesson: Tiny moves in combination are no small matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cTiny Tim, you mischievous devil,\u201d snarled Scrooge. \u201cNow, now,\u201d chided the Ghost of Christmas Future from behind Scrooge\u2019s chair. Playing black, Scrooge thought the game was won with his queen against white\u2019s bishop and knight. But the devilish Tiny Tim \u2013 standing rather than sitting at the chessboard \u2013 uncorked a pin-and-fork combination to win. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15232,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[1091,29],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-15231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-columns","tag-newsletter"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15231"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19549,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15231\/revisions\/19549"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15231"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=15231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}