Jul 26, 2005

Taylor's Ghost

In Scottish Progressive Chess there is a killer tactic called Galvin's Ghost. The idea is to leave a position where the next player must check our king in his first move, and so ending his own sequence.

In the Australian version (posted below) there is another type of ghost (let's call it Taylor's ghost), ie, leave a position where the next player must capture in his first move.

Here is a game where that tactic is applied twice (in moves 4 and 6):

1. d4
2. Nc6 N:d4
3. Nf3 c3 c:d4
4. Nh6,f5,h4:f3+
5. e:f3
6. c5 d5 e5 Qb6b3:d1+
7. K:d1
8. Bf5,d3 Bb4 c432 ++

r . . . k . . r
p p . . . p p p
. . . . . . . .
. . . p p . . .
. b . O . . . .
. . . b . O . .
O O p . . O O O
R N B K . B . R

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