When I ask my students about the opponent's weaknesses in this position, they often correctly identify the pawn on d6 (one attacker, one defender) and the knight on e7 (due to the battery on the e-file). But they have a hard time finding the strong move Lasker played:
This reminds me of something the famous Indian coach RB Ramesh once said about playing superior endgames: You should think about the drawbacks of the opponent's move!
Kids are very used to solving tactics, so they often attempt to treat instructive positions as if they were simple tactical exercises: "Takes, takes, bang". But real life doesn't work that way! Your opponent also has the right to exist, and will try to fight against your ideas. Anybody suggesting the sequence starting with 1.Qxd3?? is playing what the famous teacher Dan Heisman calls "hope chess" - making a move and hoping it works.
I wanted to share another interesting position for you to think about. I have been using this with a wide range of players during lessons and finding the resulting variations very instructive.
