14th New York Int 2026 · 2026.07.17 · Elo 2403/2513 · defensive · ★
The daily position for Wednesday 26 August 2026. It is still open to solve — the grader reads your whole line, sidelines and evaluation included, before anything here is shown. Cover the solution and solve it first →
White to move. the model predicts 65% at this level.
14.♘︎xc6 — hard to find · the threat is ♕︎xd8 — what it plays next if the defence does nothing
15.♕︎f3 — most players miss this · worth +1 · threatening both ♕︎xf5 and ♕︎xc3
16.♕︎xd3 — most players miss this · worth +1 · the fair stop: the line may end here
17.♖︎e1 — routine — shown for completeness, never demanded
“hard to find”, “the natural move” and the rest describe how often this move is played by Maia-2, weighted across the 1500/1900/2000 audience the difficulty model is fitted on — a model of human play, not a count of anyone who solved this position.
Members can take this away as a PGN — the diagram, the verified line and their own analysis in one file, for a database, Anki or Chessable.
What happened at the board
Paragua found it · ½-½
the game went on17…♖︎fe818.♖︎xe8+♖︎xe819.♗︎e3♗︎b520.♔︎h2a621.♗︎xc6♗︎xc622.♖︎c1♗︎d523.♖︎xc3♗︎xa224.♖︎c6♖︎a825.♗︎a7½-½full game ↗
The field
88% of the 24 committed lines here found the key move — the model predicted 65% at this level.