Wood Green Inv 2026 · 2026.07.17 · Elo 2448/2445 · interesting · ★★★
The daily position for Friday 28 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 →
Black to move. the model predicts 34% at this level.
29…♖︎d8 — hard to find · the threat is ♖︎xd6 — what it plays next if the defence does nothing
30…♘︎xd3 — the standard move · the white knight cannot flee
31…♔︎e7 — hard to find · worth +1 · the fair stop: the line may end here
32…♕︎c7 — 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
Kovchan found it · 0-1
the game went on31…♔︎e532.♗︎xd3♔︎f433.♖︎g1f534.♘︎g5h435.♘︎h3+♔︎e536.♘︎g5♖︎e837.♘︎f7+♔︎f438.♘︎g5♖︎e60-1full game ↗
The field
53% of the 19 committed lines here found the key move — the model predicted 34% at this level.