{"id":11843,"date":"2026-02-18T15:45:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T15:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/11843\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T15:45:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T15:45:07","slug":"chess-corner-swiss-cheese-defense-has-holes-columns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/11843\/","title":{"rendered":"CHESS CORNER: Swiss cheese defense has holes | Columns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 1792, King Louis XVI\u2019s 900 Swiss guards tried to protect the king against a mob of over 20,000 revolutionaries at the Tuileries Palace. Despite a valiant effort, the Swiss guards were overwhelmed and could not defend the king.<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, in this week\u2019s positionk black\u2019s knight has moved to f6 to save its liege from mate on h7. White\u2019s next move proves it might as well be 900 against 20,000 because, like King Louis, the black king\u2019s capture is imminent. With this hint in mind, please try to find white\u2019s winning move.<\/p>\n<p>kAm(9:E6\u2019D BF66? 2?5 3:D9@A 2C6 =:?65 FA =:&lt;6 2 4C@DD3@H C625J E@ 7:C6] pE E96 D2&gt;6 E:&gt;6[ H9:E6\u2019D J &lt;:?8] %96 &gt;@G6 E92E 36DE 6IA=@:ED 2== E96D6 9@=6D \ud83d\ude15 3=24&lt;\u2019D A@D:E:@? \ud83d\ude00 <\/p>\n<p>kAm%96 9d 2E:?8 3=24&lt;] x7 3=24&lt;\u2019D 2E6D @? 9f]k^Am<\/p>\n<p>kAmp=E6C?2E:G6=J[ 3=24&lt; 42? 5676?5 8f H:E9 C@@&lt; E@ 7f] qFE E96? E96 H9:E6 BF66? E2&lt;6D E96 C@@&lt; H:E9 E96 DFAA@CE @7 E96 2E6D @? 8f H96? E96 &lt;:?8 C6EC62ED E@ 9g]k^Am<\/p>\n<p>kAm%96 =6DD@? E9:D H66&lt; \ud83d\ude00 E92E 2 36=2E65 5676?D6 282:?DE 2? 2EE24&lt; \ud83d\ude00 2D A@C@FD 2D $H:DD 4966D6] u@C E96:C 3C2G6CJ[ E96 $H:DD 8F2C5D 92G6 2 DE2EFE6 \ud83d\ude15 E96:C 9@?@C \ud83d\ude15 $H:EK6C=2?5] qFE E96C6 2C6 ?@ DE2EFE6D 9@?@C:?8 2 $H:DD 4966D6 5676?D6]k^Am<\/p>\n<p>Reach Eric Morrow at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.muskogeephoenix.com\/columns\/chess-corner-swiss-cheese-defense-has-holes\/mailto:ericmorrowlaw@gmail.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ericmorrowlaw@gmail.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In 1792, King Louis XVI\u2019s 900 Swiss guards tried to protect the king against a mob of over&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11844,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[8848,8850,8852,8853,8846,8849,8851,8845,41,17,8847],"class_list":["post-11843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-switzerland","tag-abstract-strategy-games","tag-chess","tag-chess-equipment","tag-chess-pieces","tag-chess-theory","tag-games-related-to-chaturanga","tag-indian-board-games","tag-strategy-game-theory","tag-swiss","tag-switzerland","tag-traditional-board-games"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11843\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}