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| Nov-16-10 | | Formula7: 22...Qh1+ 23.Bxh1 Rxh1+ 24.Kg2 Bf3# |
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Nov-16-10
 | | lost in space: 22...Qh1+ 23. Bxh1 (only move) Rxh1+ 24. Kg2 (only move) Bf3# Love it. |
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| Nov-16-10 | | EXIDE: Got it! Maybe, a slightly more challenging puzzle would have been 21.. Black to move. |
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Nov-16-10
 | | estrick: Yes! The queen is sacked again! |
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Nov-16-10
 | | patzer2: I picked 22...Qg1+! for mate-in-five, overlooking the shorter mate-in-three with 22...Qh1+, to solve today's Tuesday puzzle. |
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Nov-16-10
 | | OBIT: <EXIDE>I'd say 21... Black to move would be less challenging, as 21...Nf3+ mates in three. In a sense, the game move 21...Qh2+ is inferior, as the mate takes four moves. :) |
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| Nov-16-10 | | kurtrichards: 22. ... Qh1+ mating...0-1 |
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Nov-16-10
 | | al wazir: This hardly counts as a puzzle, since black can win the exchange on the move. But I suppose that should only be worth one point; to win two points you have to see the mate following the sac, 22...Qh1+. I did.But I think I should have collected three points on this one, because when I played out the game I saw that white would have resigned a move earlier if black had played 21...Nf3+. If the moves, then 22...Qh1#; if 22. Bxf3, then 22...Bxf3, and both mate and mayhem are unavoidable. Unfortunately, my scoring system doesn't allow for bonus points. |
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Nov-16-10
 | | dzechiel: Black to play (22...?). Material even. "Easy."
Well, this is a very pretty checkmate! Black winds it up in three very forcing moves, starting with... 22 Qh1+ Bxh1
Forced.
23 Rxh1+ Kg2
Forced.
24 Bf3#
I don't think I have ever seen this particular mating pattern before. It should be named "Ivanov's Mate", or something similar. =====
OK, 2 points for a full Tuesday solution, plus my previous total of 1 gives me 3 for the week. |
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| Nov-16-10 | | domotorp: I have another puzzle, because I have not noticed that the pawn is missing on h7. So solve the puzzle in this case! (You can win more that just the exchange, this version might be already wednesday level.) |
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| Nov-16-10 | | piltdown man: Isn't 22. ...Nf3 just as good? Or am I missing something? |
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Nov-16-10
 | | M.Hassan: "Easy" Black to play 22....?
Materials equal
Black has four pieces to attack the King side of White. Q & R on h file and B & N I should say "in the vicinity". It is time to act:22............Qh1+
23.Bxh1<forced> Rxh1+
24.Kg2 Bf3#
It must be it. I will check |
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Nov-16-10
 | | OBIT: <piltdown>After 22...Nf3 23. Bxf3 Bxf3 24. Ke1 White squirms out. |
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| Nov-16-10 | | Stormbringer: Hey! I got Monday _and_ Tuesday! Woohoo! (Sorry I'm celebrating, this is a relatively rare event for me :D ) How does the scoring go? I got today, and I got yesterday, but I think I missed some of the subtleties, e.g. I understood that the queen had to take the knight otherwise there was no followup mating threat, but I thought it was a guaranteed mate |
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Nov-16-10
 | | OBIT: <patzer's> mate with 22...Qg1+ makes for an amusing game score if we take it back to move 21: 21...Qh2+ (Pushing the Black king off g1) 22. Kf1 Qg1+!!?? (OK, now let's force the king back to g1.) 23. Kxg1 We now have the same position we had on move 21, except our queen is gone. Now 23...Nf3+ mates in 3: 24. Bxf3 Bxf3 followed by 25...Rh1#
24. Kf1 Bh3#
24. Kg2 Rh2+ 25. Kf1 Bh3# |
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Nov-16-10
 | | M.Hassan: In move 12, White goes hxg3 opening the h file for future Black attack. He could have taken the pawn with f pawn or better 12.....N4xf3. Also, I did not see much point in 18.Nd6+
Am I right? If any of the kibitzers comment, I will be thankful |
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Nov-16-10
 | | Ghuzultyy: I think that Monday puzzle was harder than this one because everything is forced here and black has mate in three;
22..Qh1+! 23.Bxh1 Rh1+ 24.Kg2 Bf3# |
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| Nov-16-10 | | knight knight: <OBIT: After 22...Nf3 23. Bxf3 Bxf3 24. Ke1 White squirms out.> 23...Qg1+ 24. Kxg1 Bxf3 25. Bh6 Rxh6 and 26...Rh1#
which was my (inefficient!) solution. |
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Nov-16-10
 | | Once: Today's recipe is a classic dish which is served in all the best restaurants. We are going to make flambeed white king with a pan fried epaulette mate and an h file sauce. For the flambeed white king, you need to take one white king which has been castled in fianchetto. It is more traditional to have the king's knight at f3, but you can also opt for the more modern approach with the knight at d2. Next we need to make our standard h file sauce. You will know this sauce from many other recipes. It's exactly the same sauce (with colours reversed) that we use as white in the closed sicilian and the 150 attack against the modern. First, you need to place your queen on d7 (or d2 if making this as a white sauce), your bishop somewhere on the d2-h3 diagonal and castle queenside. If you've mixed it right, it should look something like this...  click for larger viewThe next step is to drizzle the h pawn gradually into the mix with h5 and h4. Don't put too much in! If you push to h3 the mixture will curdle and you will be blocking your own h file. You want just enough h pawn in the mix so that white has to allow the h file to be opened. Here's one I made earlier...  click for larger viewNow if white takes the pawn, you play Rxh5 with a great game. Otherwise, we need to season the dish with hxg3. White can choose between a half open h file (after fxg3) or a completely open h file with hxg3. Either way, your rook on h1 is adding a great deal of flavour to the dish. The next vital step is to infuse the flambeed white king with Bh3. The point of this is to fillet out the nasty Bg2. Nobody wants that on their plate. We can't have our diners spitting our pieces of bone, can we?  click for larger viewThe next bit needs a bit of creativity. Having opened the h file, we need to get our queen onto it. And there are at least three different ways of doing this. If white plays Bxh3 then we add Qxh3 to the mix. Lovely. If the white bishop stays on g2 then we season with Bxg2 and Qh3+. And if the bishop runs away we look for another way to stirfry the queen to the h file. You might like to try a Michelle Roux speciality with Qf5-Qh5. Our dish is nearly complete. But we have lots of choices about how we finish it off. This will depend on what is in season, and how white chooses to defend. We may need to add other ingredients to the attack, such as a centralised knight, a second rook along the h file or a bishop. But if you aspire to Michelin quality fine dining, you should make sure that your dish is not only cooked to perfection but presented neatly. If you have been following the recipe, this is what it could look like:  click for larger viewBon appetit. |
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Nov-16-10
 | | Once: <M.Hassan> After 11...hxg3, black has four possible recaptures of the g pawn: click for larger viewHe could recapture with either knight and either pawn. Unfortunately, they are all pretty grisly choices. Whichever way he goes, black has a half or fully open h file and the option of blasting everything open with f5. I suppose the point of hxg3 rather than fxg3 is that the h2 pawn would fall anyway when black doubles or triples heavy pieces on the h file. By the time we get to move 18, white is pretty much busted and is looking for desparado moves. 18. Nd6+ is sort of cunning, in that it frees the e4 square for the Bg2 and gets rid of one of the terrible black knights. But black is way too far ahead for it to change the outcome. White might as well try it (Fritz can't see anything better) and hope that black misplays the attack. |
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| Nov-16-10 | | gmalino: This one seems easy, but I have the feeling that there are several ways to end this. A.(Most forcing)
22 ...Qh1+
23.Bxh1 Rxh1+
24.Kg2 Bf3+
Sadly that B, C and D don't work, so my first impression was wrong, only the forcing continuation wins. Waiting for Wednesday. |
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Nov-16-10
 | | M.Hassan:  click for larger view<once>: Thank you very much for the elaborate explanation and analysis. may be White should not have let the h pawn to take g3. The above is the position at the end of move 10. A chessmaster character thinks that Black h pawn should have been taken as below
11.gxh3 Rxh3
12.Bg4 and get a Rook! if Black plays as such.
Makes sense. I am always afraid to loose h pawn if playing with White. Thanks again for comments
I am always afraid to loose the |
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| Nov-16-10 | | gofer: Black is in such a dominating position that I can't much hope for white in the long run,
but there is no need to look that far into the future 22 ... Qh1+ 23 Bxh1 Rxh1+ 24 Kg2 Bf3# kills white deader than dead... |
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| Nov-16-10 | | Whitehat1963: Took me far too long, but I got it. |
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Nov-16-10
 | | DarthStapler: Wow, I just missed it, I only thought of Bh3+ instead of Bf3 |
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