{"id":22408,"date":"2025-05-05T15:53:40","date_gmt":"2025-05-05T21:53:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/a-theater-of-romance\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T22:13:51","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T04:13:51","slug":"a-theater-of-romance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/a-theater-of-romance\/","title":{"rendered":"A theater of romance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=ec6270d6-5694-5477-b875-c94e5cdc8d07&#038;function=cover&#038;type=preview&#038;source=false&#038;width=2000\" width=\"612\" height=\"611\" alt=\"\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/figure>\n<div class=\"naviga-element naviga-subheadline1\">White to move and win<\/div>\n<p>The chess board is a theater of romance and seduction. When a knight flashes both its right angles, linear-minded rooks are lured into a natural checkmating position. This could even break a queen\u2019s heart.<\/p>\n<p>With this hint in mind please try to find white\u2019s mating attack.<\/p>\n<p>Because black\u2019s bishop targets the white king\u2019s escape square on h2, both black\u2019s queen and rook on d8 threaten mate in two. Black also has material superiority.<\/p>\n<p>White refutes this with a kiss. Its queen steps close to the black king on f8 and checks black on the cheek. Black\u2019s king cannot capture the queen because of white\u2019s knight.   Black\u2019s rook thus takes the queen. White\u2019s knight next checks black from e7, which forces the black king over to h8 (see next diagram).<\/p>\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=d8b0d46e-78de-5ede-bf41-2d3872d26686&#038;function=cover&#038;type=preview&#038;source=false&#038;width=2000\" width=\"613\" height=\"612\" alt=\"\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>The white knight\u2019s reach extends to both the g8 and g6 squares. If the black king were assaulted along the \u201ch\u201d file, black\u2019s king would be mated. But black\u2019s h7 pawn shields its liege.<\/p>\n<p>White\u2019s rook on h3 crashes through and takes the pawn with check. Black\u2019s king captures the rook on h7. White\u2019s other rook exploits the now open file and slides over to h3, mating black (see next diagram).<\/p>\n<p>The lesson this week is that a knight and a rook make a good match.<\/p>\n<p><em id=\"emphasis-e7a77acf03a52305859252c07a11e061\">Reach Eric Morrow at <a href=\"mailto:ericmorrowlaw@gmail.com\">ericmorrowlaw@gmail.com<\/a> or (505) 327-7121.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=8005737d-7774-5bd5-af4d-91ec1bf1c883&#038;function=cover&#038;type=preview&#038;source=false&#038;width=2000\" width=\"612\" height=\"612\" alt=\"\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>to move and win The chess board is a theater of romance and seduction. When a knight flashes both its right angles, linear-minded rooks are lured into a natural checkmating position. This could even break a queen\u2019s heart. With this hint in mind please try to find white\u2019s mating attack. Because black\u2019s bishop targets [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22409,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[29],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-22408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-newsletter"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22408","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=22408"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77700,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22408\/revisions\/77700"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22408"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=22408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}