Minsk Open 2026 · 2026.07.19 · Elo 2484/2430 · tactic · ★★★★
The daily position for Saturday 15 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 gives this to 1 in 17 at this level.
The solution
21.♖︎xd8!(not21.♘︎d6+?♖︎xd622.♗︎xd6♖︎b223.♖︎c2♖︎xc2=)21…♕︎xd822.♗︎xc6(not22.♘︎d6+?♔︎g823.♗︎h1♘︎e524.♕︎d1♗︎f8∓)22…♗︎f8(22…♔︎g8is more resilient:23.♖︎d1♕︎c824.♘︎xa7+−)23.♗︎xf8♕︎xf8(23…♔︎xf8is as good:24.♕︎b2♔︎g825.♕︎e5+−)24.♗︎h1+−
21.♖︎xd8 — almost nobody finds this
22.♗︎xc6 — the natural move
23.♗︎xf8 — hard to find · worth +1 · the fair stop: the line may end here
24.♗︎h1 — 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
Stribuk found it · 1-0
the game went on22…♔︎g823.♖︎d1♕︎f624.♗︎d6♖︎b625.♗︎e4h526.♗︎g3♗︎b727.♗︎xb7♖︎xb728.gxh5… on to move 35 · 1-0full game ↗
The field
100% of the 5 committed lines here found the key move — the model predicted 6% at this level.