With the game checkers/draughts capturing is mandatory.
With the game of chess there's more freedom of choice. We are allowed to do crazy things without being forced to recapture.
Many years ago I believe it was in the IM Bouwmeester booklets or maybe the Saturday chess column in the newspaper by IM Ligterink where a game was shown by the great chess legend Jose Raoul Capablanca.
Capablanca came up with a fantastic zwischenzug, a knight move which helped him to win the game.
I've just looked up that game (I knew it was King's Gambit with Capablanca playing black against a not so weak player) :
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1076242
That was a very inspiring game for me back then.
Just now I played a joyful zwischenzug game where a knight move made a difference. Long live not having to recapture ! :)
Here also the Capablanca game on Lichess :
With the game of chess there's more freedom of choice. We are allowed to do crazy things without being forced to recapture.
Many years ago I believe it was in the IM Bouwmeester booklets or maybe the Saturday chess column in the newspaper by IM Ligterink where a game was shown by the great chess legend Jose Raoul Capablanca.
Capablanca came up with a fantastic zwischenzug, a knight move which helped him to win the game.
I've just looked up that game (I knew it was King's Gambit with Capablanca playing black against a not so weak player) :
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1076242
That was a very inspiring game for me back then.
Just now I played a joyful zwischenzug game where a knight move made a difference. Long live not having to recapture ! :)
Here also the Capablanca game on Lichess :