The daily position for Monday 17 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 62% at this level.
The solution
29.♗︎d2!△♗︎xb4(not29.♕︎c4?fxe330.fxe3♘︎d531.♖︎e6♖︎xb2−+)29…♘︎d5(29…♕︎d7is more resilient:30.♖︎e6♘︎d531.♖︎c5⩲)30.♖︎c2♕︎d7(30…♕︎h4is more resilient:31.♖︎c5f332.gxf3=)31.♕︎e6♕︎xe632.♖︎xe6⩲
29.♗︎d2 — the natural move · the threat is ♗︎xb4 — what it plays next if the defence does nothing
30.♖︎c2 — almost nobody finds this · worth +1
31.♕︎e6 — most players miss this · worth +1 · the fair stop: the line may end here
32.♖︎xe6 — 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
Eljanov found it · 1-0
the game went on30…♘︎e731.♖︎g4♘︎d532.♕︎e6♖︎b633.♖︎c6♖︎xb234.♖︎xg7+1-0full game ↗
The field
50% of the 8 committed lines here found the key move — the model predicted 62% at this level.