← All motifs

London, 1912

Edward Lasker vs Sir George Thomas

The queen sacrifice starts a king march from h8 to g1, where he is mated.

r n . . . r k .
p b p p q . p p
. p . . p b . .
. . . . N . . Q
. . . P N . . .
. . . B . . . .
P P P . . P P P
R . . . K . . R
White to play
Move
11
To play
White to play
Result
Mate in 8
Key move
Qxh7+

The combination

11.Qxh7+ Kxh7 12.Nxf6+ Kh6 13.Neg4+ Kg5 14.h4+ Kf4 15.g3+ Kf3 16.Be2+ Kg2

Motify serves one of these every day, the same position for everybody. The rest of what it does is find the tactics you missed in your own lichess and Chess.com games and turn them into puzzles. See how Motify works.