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| Jun-25-12 | | MountainMatt: A Monday twist! Instead of a Q sac, 33...Rxd4 leads to the white queen getting picked off. |
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| Jun-25-12 | | gambler: First, we sac the quee.... Oh wait.
Rather easy, but could as well have been a tuesday puzzle. |
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Jun-25-12
 | | FSR: After 33...Rxd4!, taking a free piece, White's position is not "Pietzschy" at all (34.Qxd4 Nb3+). |
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Jun-25-12
 | | agb2002: Black has the bishop pair for a bishop and a knight. The knight so close to White's heavy pieces, king included, invites to play 33... Rxb2, removing a defender which limits its mobility: A) 34.Qxb2 Nd3
A.1) 35.Qc3 Nxe1
A.1.a) 36.Qxe1 Qxd4+ - + [B].
A.1.b) 36.Bd1(h3) Qxd4 37.Qxd4 Nc2+ 38.Kb2 Nxd4 - + [B+N]. A.2) 35.Nb5 Bxb5 36.Qxb5 Nxe1 - + [N].
B) 34.Kxb2 Na4+ 35.Kc2 Nxc3 36.Kxc3 Qa5+ is a massacre. ----
Another option is 33... Rxd4, winning a piece because 34.Qxd4 is met with 34... Nb3+ 35.Kb1 Nxd4 - + [Q+B vs R]. ----
The second option looks simpler and stronger. |
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| Jun-25-12 | | poszvald: 33, Rxd4  |
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| Jun-25-12 | | Dr. Pipit Wagtail: <FSR> Indeed it is lucky "Pietzschy" didn't have a Roman Incident... |
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| Jun-25-12 | | RMKvdS: Almost missed a Monday for the first time! Kept looking for mate, then noticed that Rxb2 wins a piece. Different from the text but gains the same amount of material. So I can call it solved! Right? |
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Jun-25-12
 | | LIFE Master AJ: Had to be 33...Rxd4; and 34...Nb3+; winning the WQ. |
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| Jun-25-12 | | RMKvdS: 33... Rxb2
(A) 34. Qxb2 Nd3 winning a piece.
(B) 34. Kxb2 Na4+ winning the queen.
Amounts to the same. |
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Jun-25-12
 | | Beancounter: Got to admit I completely missed it. I was looking for some kind of smothered mate. |
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| Jun-25-12 | | dufferps: After a fairly long study of the situation, I saw 33. ... Rxd4 with the threat of 35. Qxd4 Nb3+ as a fine move for black. It solved his "vulnerable rook" problem, gave him a piece advantage, and got rid of the knight that was protecting against the juicy ...Nb3+. But at my level, I am always disappointed that the GMs resign so early - at what I see as a slight disadvantage. I must look to the Kibitzers for the continuations. My expectation would be that white would move 34. Kb1, but from there on, I see it as a long hard game for both players. How does black capitalize on his advantage? |
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Jun-25-12
 | | PhilFeeley: I thought 33...Rxb2 worked also. I'm glad to see it did. |
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Jun-25-12
 | | paulalbert: I went for Rxd4 right away winning a piece outright because of Queen fork threat; did not consider Rxb2. Resignation understandable: Trying to save a piece down game against GM "Dzindzi" with a good position besides ( two bishops, etc. ) is absolutely hopeless. |
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Jun-25-12
 | | gawain: There is a royal fork lying in the weeds.
33...Rxd4 34 Qxd4 Nb3+ |
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Jun-25-12
 | | kevin86: I looked for the queen sac,but sometimes,cg is coy and sets up a position to win the queen. Black indeed does win the queen after 33... xd4 34  xd4  b3+...otherwise,white loses a piece and is in a hopeless game. |
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Jun-25-12
| | kevin86: a funny echo,Rxb2 leads to similar forks and a win as well. |
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| Jun-25-12 | | 5hrsolver: I didnt get it.But I think 33..Rxb2 wins also. |
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Jun-25-12
 | | chrisowen: I old languid sign Rb4 earns poetic justice rb2 or d4 gets the job done knight will b3 pent up queen c3 overstretched indictive opening bfile raging rook b4 akin king bottled a nb2 late nc5 at 16 big selectioning also seems i stint in good queen strike a chink in a7... |
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Jun-25-12
 | | sevenseaman: <and it's as hopeless as watching England in a penalty shootout.> Penalty shoot out has become England's bugbear and their embarrassing execution of it is self-inflicted. They are the team known to practice it more than any other team. That surely is an indication that England subconsciously play for a penalty shoot out and build up their chance to freeze. I can only say it hurts. |
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| Jun-25-12 | | bachbeet: I thought of the rook capturing that knight but then discarded it because I figured it must be a Q sac. Didn't see any good results from that so didn't really figure this one out. |
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Jun-25-12
| | James Connelly: Oh Monday Monday. I looked at this for about 5 min this morning, thinking how can this be a Monday puzzle? Whites path to success is fully hidden from me. If only it was blacks first move. |
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| Jun-25-12 | | desiobu: Have to admit it took a bit longer than I would have liked to find the solution. |
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| Jun-25-12 | | solskytz: Funny, as I've seen and calculated well ...Rxb2, which would be a Thursday or at least a Wednesday, but just totally missed ...Rxd4 (who knows, may have seen it had ...Rxb2 not been available - seeing that it took me less than a second to spot this move) |
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| Jun-25-12 | | stst: 1. Got it too difficult - why? - cause thought it's White's move! - got it wrong!! 2. Even if it's Black's move, still find it difficult, cause thought about the N's check for too long!! - then thought of harassing the White Q!? - got it wrong again!! - this time, it's sac the R, to harass the Q later (via N's+ fork.) Not too easy for Monday!! |
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| Jun-26-12 | | Nullifidian: There are two potential moves here, and both strike me as equally good. First off, 33...xd4 wins a piece outright because 34. xd4? loses to 34... b3+ and 35... xd4. Then there's 33... xb2. 34. xb2 is met with 34... d3. White's best response is 35. d2 to prevent b4+ and play can continue: 35... xd4+ 36.  b1 b6+ 37. a1 xe1 38. xe1 d4+ 39. b1  b5 40. f1 g1! when Black will be two pieces up in the endgame. |
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