Been going crazy trying to get the house ready to sell. Going on the market this weekend!!
Anyway, back to chess.
I've discovered that sometimes simple and solid moves are the best. Case in point, it's white's move in this diagram. White's position looks pretty good to me, everything for the most part is bearing down the white queen. White to move....
According to Fritz 10, the simple e4! OR rxe5 is the best move here. It stops the knight from taking the pawn on d5 and it also doesn't change any of the possible white sacrifices on e5.
Of course, I saw all kinds of crazy stuff like Rxe5 and Nxe5. Rxe5 is just fine as well but Nxe5 just loses to pxn and black can't take back with the queen because of the pawn fork at f6.
Guess what I played? of course, I played nxe5?? I actually saw the problem in earlier analysis but when I looked at it again I saw something that isn't there. I would suggest carrying scrap paper and actually writing down moves that you reject! I wonder if you can do that in tournaments?...mmm...
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