[Event "Blog diagrams: Sente - example 5"] [Site "https://lichess.org/study/9GFpNdwd/yrG8jHOL"] [Result "*"] [Variant "Atomic"] [ECO "?"] [Opening "?"] [Annotator "https://lichess.org/@/Illion"] [FEN "rnb1kb1r/p4p2/2p1p1qp/1p6/3P1P2/2N3P1/PPP4P/R1BQKB1R w KQkq - 1 10"] [SetUp "1"] [UTCDate "2019.08.06"] [UTCTime "15:15:01"] [Source "https://lichess.org/study/9GFpNdwd/yrG8jHOL"] [Orientation "white"] { This is onubense - dpalm, from AWC 2017, Match 29 Game 1. https://lichess.org/K7MsEKK3 Black threatens ...Qxc2. White has several good ways to deal with this, but here we focus on two in particular: 10. Bd3 and 10. Qh5. } { [%csl Rc2][%cal Rg6c2] } 10. Qh5! { This is a clever move, paralysing black's queen. Black doesn't have much else to do, so trades queens. } (10. Bd3 { This is forcing but not sente. } 10... Qg4 11. Qxg4 { White makes the queen trade in gote, and black has the move. } (11. Qf3!? b4) 11... f5 { The position is still good for white (black's pawn structure and development are bad), but at least white's minor pieces are not working well for now. }) 10... Qxh5 11. Ne4! { This and the next two moves are sente, making threats which force black to respond unfavourably while white develops. } 11... Be7 12. Be2! h5 13. Bd2! a5 14. O-O-O $16 { White's last few moves finished development, while forcing black to make the less helpful moves of ...a5 and ...h5. } *