OTB Chess: White to Move 🏁

While playing my first game of the night with Chris W., I managed to find myself in a standoff with my two rooks vs. a queen. My king was pinned in the corner and it’s white to move.

After reviewing this a few times, what could be a losing position for me turned out to be a winning position on some iterations of analysis/play. Oddly enough, I did win when Chris blundered and resigned on a fork of his king and queen by my knight. Chris played a very good game as he took advantage of some of my earlier mistakes, which got me into this position. My previous move before was to bring my knight to its current position from c5. It’s white to move… Maybe you can try some analysis of your own and figure out a win for white or black.


Here is the PGN coding:

[Event “Casual Chess Club OTB Meeting”]
[Site “Jersey Mikes (Rainbow at Oakey, Las Vegas, NV)”]
[Date “2025.07.01”]
[Round “1”]
[White “Chris W.”]
[Black “Ed Magik”]
[Result “*”]
[SetUp “1”]
[FEN “r2r3k/pp1n1Bpp/3b4/7Q/8/6P1/PBP2P1K/8 w – – 0 1”]
[Link “https://www.chess.com/analysis/game/pgn/4h7kHQwke2?tab=analysis”]

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Chess.com Link:

https://www.chess.com/analysis/game/pgn/4h7kHQwke2?tab=analysis