Brazil Chess - Floripa · 2026.01.23 · Elo 2540/2410 · tactic · ★★
The daily position for Thursday 1 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 →
White to move. the model predicts 46% at this level.
30.♘︎xe4 — almost nobody finds this · worth +1 · the black bishop cannot flee
“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
Mekhitarian found it · 1-0
the game went on26…♔︎h827.♘︎xe8♗︎xg528.♘︎xg7♘︎e71-0full game ↗
The field
100% of the 13 committed lines here found the key move — the model predicted 46% at this level.