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| Sep-05-05 | | cyclemath: 20 ... Nh5. I bet Stefansson couldn't believe his eyes. :-) |
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| Sep-05-05 | | Halldor: Excellent puzzle for Tuesdays! |
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| Apr-10-06 | | aazqua: Puzzles just don't get anymore obvoius. Not so easy to see if you're not told "PUZZLE" though. |
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| Apr-10-06 | | bumpmobile: This reminds me a lot of J Cervenka vs NN, 2002 |
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| Apr-10-06 | | Hafen Slawkenbergius: Very easy. At the very least, cg should have given the position after 20 ... Nh5. |
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| Apr-10-06 | | avidfan: Even if 22.Qh5 Bxg5 23.Bxg6! Bh6 24.Qxh6 Rf7 25.Bxf7+ Kxf7 26.Qg7# |
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| Apr-10-06 | | chesstoplay: Not the ending you'd expect from a game between two player both rated about 2600. But for newer players, another CG excellent beginning of the week basic puzzle. It is very hard, emotionally hard, for newer players to sac their queen and if they are not skilled in minor piece mating patterns, intellectually hard. Also for newer players, the board is still rather busy with all types of pieces and pawns scattered all about. Too easy for most at this site, perhaps, but we KNOW it is a puzzle. |
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| Apr-10-06 | | yataturk: It seems like all roads lead to a mate.. |
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| Apr-10-06 | | notyetagm: Blackburne mate.
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| Apr-10-06 | | WarmasterKron: A bit slow today. I was looking at 22.f5 and looked at it all the way to the latest possible deflection of the g pawn which allowed Qxh5. Then I realised that the immediate Qxh5 wins anyway. And f5 doesn't. |
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| Apr-10-06 | | cuendillar: 22.Qxh5 might be fairly obvious, but it's not that easy to verify. 22... gxh5 23.Bxh7# isn't forced, so you have to see both the 23.Bxg6 sacrifice after 22...Rf7 or Bxg5, as well as judge the effect of a counter-sacrifice on g2 to get a full solution. A puzzle isn't just the first move, especially not when it leaves your queen en prise. |
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| Apr-10-06 | | mr j: Easy to spot but like others have said, only because I knew it was a puzzle.
I would love to pull this move off in a game :-) |
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| Apr-10-06 | | legi: <cuendillar> Well, white at least wins a knight which can be verified easily. So there is no need to look for further sacrifices in the first place. |
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| Apr-10-06 | | JZA: Lazaro Bruzon got schooled.. poor guy! After a game like that, he must of had problems sleeping. Its alright tho.. it looked like Lazaro was going to lose anyways :( |
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| Apr-10-06 | | Marco65: <Well, white at least wins a knight which can be verified easily. So there is no need to look for further sacrifices in the first place.>
Not at all, if you stopped after 22.Qxh5 you may risk that 22...Bxg5 gets the piece back, what for instance happens after the "natural move" 23.Qxg5? Bxe4 24.Qh6 Rf7 and White can just claim a small advantage in my opinion. You have to calculate either 23.Bxg6! or at least 23.Bxb7 gxh5 24.Bxc8 Rxc8 25.fxg5  to claim you solved the puzzle.More complex than usual Monday puzzles |
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| Apr-10-06 | | Soltari: Solved the puzzle including 23.Bxg6 :D. |
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| Apr-10-06 | | charms: After ♕xh5 (easy to spot) ♗xg5 ♗xb7 ♕xb7 (or gxh5 (♗xf4? fails to ♖xf4!) ♗xc8 ♖xc8 fxg5} white is winning as the b♙ are blocked by the ♗ishop.) ♕xg5 leaves White a piece up, but black has a punch of pawns. But anyway, as soon as Qxh5 is verified to be playable with  (intuitively, it just cannot be a bad move), one will find the continuation Bxg6! easily. |
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| Apr-10-06 | | RandomVisitor: White could *try* the Qxh5 sacrifice 1 move earlier, but Black then has Qxg2 mate. 21.Be4 stops the Black checkmate on g2 and sets up 22.Qxh5. |
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| Apr-10-06 | | Zplane: I did it a bit backward. 22 nxh7 KxN 23 Qxn KG8 24 QxG6 mate |
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| Apr-10-06 | | RandomVisitor: <Zplane>On22.Nxh7 Black has Rf5 or Qxg2, each move stopping your plans. |
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| Apr-10-06 | | ckr: I checked for a queen sac first and soon noticed that it wasn't a sac at all as the bishop would mate on h7. Black has to capture the knight and allows the bishop to take g6 renewing the mate threats at h7 or h8. A much needed dose of confidence after yesterday's puzzle. |
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| Apr-10-06 | | Alex S.: After 22. Qxh5, Bxe4 wins a piece and renders the mate threat useless. If White regains the bishop with Nxe4, Black plays gxh5. |
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| Apr-10-06 | | EmperorAtahualpa: 5 seconds! |
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| Apr-10-06 | | Dres1: Bxe4 Qxh7 mate |
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| Apr-10-06 | | Vuroth: After 22 ... Bxe4, white has 23 Qxh7#.
The line that I'm struggling with is 22 ...Rf7, protecting h7 and g7. 23 Nxf7 threatens 24 Nh6#. Capturing with 23 ... Kxf7 leads to 24 Qxh7 and the white queen mates on g7. However, Bf8 and Re7 might still be doable, something like: 22 ... Rf7 23 Nxf7 Bf8 24 Ng5 Re7 then what? |
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