Find the Move — November 7, 2026

Adams vs. Torre, New Orleans 1920 (1920)

Black to move. Find the best move.

From Edwin Adams – Carlos Torre, New Orleans 1920.

New Orleans, 1920. Edwin Adams was a local player; Carlos Torre, a teenager from Mexico who lived in the city, later became one of the strongest players in the world. Their game contains one of the most famous series of queen offers ever seen. Some historians think the game was polished before publication, but it remains a perfect lesson about overloaded defenders. The e-file is the key: both sides have doubled rooks there.