Chess

This was a position in a game I just played, I have black pieces. The move I played here was f6 but the top engine move (>10 eval points for black better than my move) just felt strange to me. I had to go in analysis mode and play it out several moves before I could see why it was good. Can you see the move?

Rxe3 screams out to me

Fork with the knight, push the pawn, activate the other rook

Yours pieces active, white inactive

f6 invites pressure imo, the rook is coming

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Rxe3+ is correct! My beginner brain did not see beyond “bishop is guarded so can’t take with rook” during the game.

When game review said Rxe3+ is best I saw “if king takes then I skewer with Re8+ but Kf2 will guard rook so skewer won’t work”.

Engine analysis provided follow up Nd3+ which wins back rook!

f6 was kind of a tunnel vision move fearing the fork gxf7+ and wanting to lock things down. I knew I wanted to attack the bishop on e3 so later I played Nd5 to add an attacker.

Hopefully as I play and learn more I will develop more of an intuition for spotting these kinds of tactics!

“Look for all of the checks, even the crazy ones” is one of my go to chess mantras