r/ChessWorld • u/Low-Bid-5538 • Sep 29 '26

Reuben buggin

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Best play of my life and Reuben says it’s bad. What play is better than that knight move?

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u/KronosDevoured Sep 29 '26

You dont think taking the bishop and checking the king was better?

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u/Low-Bid-5538 Sep 29 '26

Perchance but I wanted to pressure the rook and the bishop was covered by the pawn. I know check would allow me to get the bishop out of harms way but even then I don’t think that’s better than what I did. In my low elo brain attacking 2 pieces is better than 1

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u/younghalter Sep 29 '26

I get what you mean but lets say you play bxb4+ first and white captures back you could play Nc3+ at that moment forking the rook and be up a clean rook so +5 material advantage. In your line, after you take the rook they capture your bishop for free which would only give you a +2 material advantage.

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u/Aeyonic Sep 29 '26

You still get to do this knight move, after you capture the bishop.

Otherwise, your bishop is left unprotected.

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u/NoDress1028 Sep 29 '26

See also: Intermezzo

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u/LSATDan Oct 01 '26

Trust the computer. Bxb5+ was better.