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10 Overload

The document discusses the chess tactic of overload, where one piece has too many responsibilities to handle. Garry Kasparov calls overload the most effective tactic when checkmate is one option and threats are coming from opposite sides. An example position shows the white queen overloaded in defending the back rank and preventing a mate on g2. Black wins by threatening mate on the back rank and with the queen simultaneously. The document provides additional examples and practice positions exploiting overloaded pieces in chess.

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10 Overload

The document discusses the chess tactic of overload, where one piece has too many responsibilities to handle. Garry Kasparov calls overload the most effective tactic when checkmate is one option and threats are coming from opposite sides. An example position shows the white queen overloaded in defending the back rank and preventing a mate on g2. Black wins by threatening mate on the back rank and with the queen simultaneously. The document provides additional examples and practice positions exploiting overloaded pieces in chess.

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10.

OVERLOAD
LE ARN M ORE

“The most effective form • Ukraine’s Vassily Ivanchuk has been one of the top Grand-
of using overload and the masters in the world since the late 1980s. He won the Linares
supertournament three times and Garry once called him “the
deadliest, is when the mate
player who has most surprised me over the board.”
is one of the options and
one piece has to watch for AD D ITI ONAL P OSITI ONS
different threats coming When one piece has two jobs, like defending two pieces, it is
from opposite directions.” “overloaded” with too much work. Often to take advantage of
—Garry Kasparov this, you need to choose the right move order. If possible, force
the overloaded piece to abandon one of its responsibilities.
SU B C HAPTER S
Here the white queen is trying to safeguard the back rank against
• Too Many Jobs at Once 1...Ra1, and she is also trying to ensure Black can’t invade with
1...Qf3 and then mate on g2.
• Classic Case of Overload

• Mechkarov vs Kaikamdzhozov,
1969

• Botvinnik vs Petrosian, 1966

• Challenge: An Overload Study

Black wins with 1...Qf3 2. Qxf3 Ra1+ and it will be mate once White
puts all three pieces in the way. Note that the move order matters
since 1...Ra1 does not work after 2. Qxa1 Qf3 3. Ne1 guarding g2.

GARRY K A SPAROV 39
10. 1 .)
OVERLOAD

PR ACTI CE P OSITI ONS

Now you try!

White to move

2.)

White to move

GARRY K A SPAROV 40
10. 3 .)
OVERLOAD

PR ACTI CE P OSITI ONS

White to move

4 .)

White to move

GARRY K A SPAROV 41
10. 5 .)
OVERLOAD

PR ACTI CE P OSITI ONS

Kasparov-Topalov – Wijk aan Zee, 1999. White to move

GARRY K A SPAROV 42
10.
NOTES

GARRY K A SPAROV 43

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