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Dacha Tactics #32 - knight shows off dark.

Joshua Kogan
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Dacha Tactics #32 - knight shows off dark.

From a blitz battle -- all seems normal-- but how about some color money investigation! We have a knight vs white's light bishop. Which means we are ahead on dark but behind on light. His king stands on dark, seemingly activating his king like the books tell us to do. But can we show him our dark chops?

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