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Beginners Beware Series – Day 2
  Winning the Queen in Petrov's Defense

Hey again everyone!

We are back for day of the Beginners Beware Series. This one is particularly short!

Pretrov’s Defense is an opening that offers lots of dynamism and counterplay to both parties. However, the is one little hiccup everyone should be aware of:

1.	e4	e5
2.	Ng3	Ng6

Here is when we go off the book, White can try to win the queen with the following line:

3.	Nxe5	Nxe4
4.	Qe2	Ng6??
5.	Nc6+

And Black is looking pretty bad. There is no way to save the Queen.

The take home message for beginners is to keep in mind that when there is a double check—that is when the King is being checked by to pieces at the same time—the King has to move, there is no way around it. This can certainly have devastating results as proven by this example.

‘Til next time!