| Mar-20-04 |
| abejnood: I did not get this one... very nicely done...I am still an amatuer, don't laugh at me. Thank you Chessgames.com for this problem.
Bd5 was probably very obvious to all...I am embarressed I did not see it. By the way,( nothing to do with chess), it is the Iranian New Year today! Have a great new year all. |
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| Mar-20-04 |
| unclewalter: no, abejnood, don't be embarassed. this was a hard one. |
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| Mar-20-04 |
| jkiipli: I saw the first moves until Kd7 but the continuation was unclear |
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Mar-20-04
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| kevin86: I saw this game a while back-I probably would not have seen it on a cold board. A good execution against black's greed. |
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| Mar-20-04 |
| Hitch: 12. Bd5 ...exd5 13. Qxc6+ popped into my head after a while, but nothing else. Hauling out my chessboard (an acknowledgement of defeat), I set up the position and proceeded to get thoroughly confused. Should I choose the obvious move and take the rook with check or make a bee-line for the king? Should black move the king or block a possible check on d7 with his bishop? Was white trying to mate black or win a decisive material advantage? It seemed that black's king always had a flight square or two. My mental toaster popped up with a suggestion that white could win black's queen on g2 if he could get the knight on d5 and then move from there with check. Which meant...keeping the white queen on the a8-h1 diagonal! Feverishly, I started to look for moves and got Qb7+ (and maybe Qc6+), at which point my mental toaster fused and spat out a nasty lump of charcoal. Sigh. Looking at the game, I think I went wrong in assuming that white had to keep checking black on each move. I didn't see that white could afford to play Bf4 and let black run along the back rank like a mouse along the skirtingboard. Next! Happy Iranian New Year! |
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| Mar-20-04 |
| Egghead: Another finish is 19.Qc8+ Kf6 20.Nxd5+ Kg6 21.Qxg4#. |
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Mar-20-04
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| patzer2: For the second day in a row we have a puzzle where the initial moves in the combination may be easy for an experienced player to find, but the followup is a bit more difficult. If 13...Bd7, then 14. QxR+ Ke7 15. Qxd5  is an easy win. If 13...Ke7, then 14. Nxd5+ Kd8 15. Qxa8+ Kd7 (if 15...Bc8 16. 0-0-0 )16. Qxa7+ Kc6 [(if 16...Kd6, then 17. Qc5+ Ke5 18. Bf4+ Ke6 19. Qc6+ Kf5 20. Ne3+ Kxf4 21. Nxg2+ Kg5 22. Qe4 ) (if 16...Ke6, then 17. Nf4+ ) (if 16...Ke8, then 17. Qa8+ Kd7 18. Nb6+ )(if 16...Kd8, then 17. Qc7+ Ke8 18. Qc6+! Bd7 19. Qa8+ Bc8 20. Qxc8#) (if 16...Kc8, then 17. Qc7#)]17. Qa8+ Kd6 18. Qb8+ Kxd5 19. Qa8+ Kd6 20. Qxg2 |
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| Mar-20-04 |
| PAWNTOEFOUR: abejnood.......you're not in da boat by yourself lol....i thought it might have started with the text move,but i wasn't sure!...anyone got a pill that can turn me into gary kasparov? lol |
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| Mar-20-04 |
| Dick Brain: <patzer2> in your first line 15. Nxd5+ Ke6 16. 0-0-0 is even more pleasant for White. I didnt analyze your whole second line though. When I saw that after 12 Bd5 exd5 13. Qxc6+ Black had nothing better than the obviously bad Kd8 I considered the problem solved. |
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| Mar-20-04 |
| Jatayu: abejnood. This wasn't as easy as it looks. (and Happy New Year to you and all Iranians. Hope you have a great year.) |
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| Mar-20-04 |
| Calchexas: I saw 12.Bd5! very quickly (though, just as in patzer's title, the followup is a lot less obvious.) Really nice game here though. |
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| Mar-20-04 |
| steven18: Same here, spotted Bd5 pretty quickly. Although what if black plays 13...Bf3? Oh I see 14.Qxc6+ aha. |
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| Apr-01-04 |
| nikolaas: Black shouldn't have eaten those two rooks. He got an indigestion. He could have avoid a direct mate with 17... e7.Or at least it seems so to me. |
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| Jan-12-05 |
| GreenDayGuy: That would have avoided direct mate, but it all ends the same. |
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| Jan-13-05 |
| Saruman: This one can also be found in Win At Chess |
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Sep-11-05
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| iron maiden: I see this 5...Bg4 line a lot in online blitz play. As the game demonstrates, it's not entirely sound. |
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| Jun-18-06 |
| GeauxCool: In this old book, Fine has this game ending at move 17.Bf4. Submitter must have extended the game with a "what if black takes both rooks" line. |
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| Jun-07-07 |
| JMJ565X: why does this guy take them rooks, doesn't he notice he cannot capture them without being mated? |
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| Feb-13-09 |
| WhiteRook48: amazing sacrifices!! |
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sac: 12.Bd5
