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Bishops are good defenders of otherwise potentially weakened diagonals. Unless forced, it's usually a good idea not to trade a bishop for a knight, and try to restrict opponent's knight with pawns.

Evil live

Of course the best move for black is not to take the rook, so this is not quite a puzzle.

It's so trappy because it's natural to take the rook back and then lose quickly.

Yeah :D Kinda sad I didn't play it :)

Really? Maybe the stockfish depth was too low when I analyzed it.

Okay, maybe it wasn't the second best, but still good enough, idea is to prevent queens trade. This is not quite a puzzle, but there are very trappy lines where black could lose quickly.

A cool puzzle just appeared in my game on move 25. This move crossed my mind, but I thought it was too much... I played the second best move instead. White to move and win on move 25 :) https://liches…