{"id":23858,"date":"2025-01-27T10:53:44","date_gmt":"2025-01-27T17:53:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/when-the-fat-lady-sings\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T04:43:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T04:43:11","slug":"when-the-fat-lady-sings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/when-the-fat-lady-sings\/","title":{"rendered":"When the fat lady sings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=a03fc28e-a49e-5da0-9e8b-38ee7cf72514&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"530\" height=\"528\" alt=\"\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>George Foreman has twice been the world\u2019s heavyweight boxing champion. In 1994 at 45 years of age, Foreman appeared to be losing the World Championship match to Michael Moorer. Moorer had been winning the fight until the 10th round when Foreman delivered one of his notorious knockout blows and won the fight. Foreman had the highest knockout percentage in boxing history.<\/p>\n<p>In this week\u2019s position, white is dominating, and it\u2019s the 10th round. Nevertheless, black\u2019s next move knocks white off its feet. Several quick blows later, white will lay flat on the mat. With this hint please try and find black\u2019s winning move.<\/p>\n<p>Despite white\u2019s imminent mating attack and overwhelming forces, white has an Achilles heel. White\u2019s king is cornered against the ropes, and white\u2019s army is deployed over and away in black territory, poised for the kill.<\/p>\n<p>Black strikes at white\u2019s heel with queen to g2, check. The only legal move is to take the black queen (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=184e43f4-5725-5d0e-a90e-c6cda40f109b&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"527\" height=\"527\" alt=\"\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>The only move left is bishop takes queen. Now white is exposed to black\u2019s rook checking from the first rank on a1. White throws its rook, then its queen and finally its bishop in the way but the rook gobbles these pieces up and mates with the help of the black pawn on f3, which prevents the white king from escaping to g2 (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=9c3d29ae-f8eb-52af-9aac-51dd34b86553&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"530\" height=\"530\" alt=\"\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>It is ironic that 19 years earlier the young, heavily favored Foreman lost to the aging Mohammad Ali, who stunned Foreman with a knockout punch late in the fight.<\/p>\n<p>In chess, like in boxing and other sports, it ain\u2019t over until the fat lady sings.<\/p>\n<p><em id=\"emphasis-538ae186cba533db5ae0dec04334139a\">Reach Eric Morrow at <a href=\"mailto:ericmorrowlaw@gmail.com\">ericmorrowlaw@gmail.com<\/a> or (505) 327-7121.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>move and win<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23859,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[29],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-23858","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\/23858","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=23858"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78292,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23858\/revisions\/78292"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23858"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=23858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}