The daily position for Friday 2 October 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 →
Black to move. the model gives this to 1 in 4 at this level.
The solution
54…h2+!(not54…♕︎d1+?55.♔︎h2♘︎g4+56.♕︎xg4♕︎xg457.♘︎xe5++−)55.♕︎xh2♕︎d1+56.♔︎g2♖︎g8+(not56…♕︎g4+?57.♕︎g3♕︎xe4+58.♔︎f1♕︎b1+59.♔︎e2=)57.♕︎g3♖︎xg3+58.♔︎xg3(58.fxg3is as good:58…♕︎e2+59.♔︎g1♕︎e1+−+)58…♕︎g1+−+
54…h2+ — almost nobody finds this
55…♕︎d1+ — hard to find · worth +1
56.♔︎g2 — forced — the only legal move
56…♖︎g8+ — the natural move
57…♖︎xg3+ — the standard move
58…♕︎g1+ — almost nobody finds this · worth +1
“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
Xu found it · 0-1
the game went on55…♖︎g8+56.♕︎g2♕︎d1+57.♔︎h2♖︎h8+58.♕︎h3♖︎xh3+59.♔︎xh3♕︎f3+0-1full game ↗
The field
43% of the 14 committed lines here found the key move — the model predicted 26% at this level.