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| Aug-19-06 | | LivBlockade: <RandomVisitor: better was 33.Qg2 and White is winning> Why can't Black play a similar combination followed by ...axb3? White's queen then comes to b1, but he has no passed pawn or way to break through with his king, so it looks like a draw. |
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Aug-19-06
 | | goldfarbdj: Took me a while to get this one. After the initial look-over, it was clear that the a-pawn was the only source of drawing counterplay, but I spent some time trying to get 34. ... a2 35. Rxg8 Qxg1+ 36. Qxg1 Rxg8 37. Qa1 to work, before at last finding the correct order of moves. |
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| Aug-19-06 | | think: I got this one fairly easily, having missed every one earlier this week! My main internal debate was between taking with the rook or the queen first. I decided to take with the queen first because
34. ... Rxg4 35. Qxg4 Qxg1 36. Qxg1 a2 37. Qa1 and white wins as black cannot take the b-pawn and protect the a-pawn in time. |
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Aug-19-06
 | | RandomVisitor: <LivBlockade>Interesting idea... White's King MAY be able so sneak up the c-file abd b-file. |
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Aug-19-06
 | | al wazir: If instead 34...Rxg4 (my idea) then 35. Qxg4 Qxg1+ 36. Qxg1 Rxb4 37. Qa1 (not 37. Qg2 Rb2, and black wins) Ra4 38. Qa2 Ra8. Now white wins, but it isn't easy. White can advance his  to h6 while black marks time and then play Qd2 followed by Qxh7+, but black's retreats to g8 and is safe from mate. If instead white swings his over the queenside he can exchange the  for the  and the a  . The black gets to the queenside in time to block the white 's incursion, but white can seize the opposition, win the d , and bag the point. |
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Aug-19-06
 | | PhilFeeley: Just out of curiosity, what's the continuation after 37. Qg1? Is it ...Rxb4 then 38. Qa7 Rb1+ 39. Kg2 a1(Q) 40. Qxf7+ with perpetual? |
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| Aug-19-06 | | EmperorAtahualpa: YAY!! I solved this puzzle all the way till the end! :):) It has been a while since I solved a Saturday puzzle.. What a shame about White's b-pawn, otherwise White would have won, no? |
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Aug-19-06
 | | Marmot PFL: Quickest ever for a saturday, about 5-10 seconds. That's just to get the idea of course, not to calculate everything. |
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| Aug-19-06 | | greensfield: Got this one very quickly. The position almost played it self. ie breaking up loaded g file & maintaining the a pawn advance & maintaining threat on b pawn. |
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| Aug-19-06 | | TrueBlue: easy, got the move in about 5 seconds. About 5 more seconds to figure that the black a pawn will compensate for the sacrifice. |
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| Aug-19-06 | | EmperorAtahualpa: <What a shame about White's b-pawn, otherwise White would have won, no?> oops, obviously I meant to say that BLACK would have won if White's b-pawn was not standing in the way of the rook. |
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| Aug-19-06 | | Tariqov: Oooo, i saw Qxg1 but i thought Black would win outright after Rxb4, didn't see the puzzle for White after Rxb4 the brilliant Qa7! |
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Aug-19-06
 | | kevin86: Boy is this an O'Henry finish!! Black must give up the queen to save the game----and then it is WHITE who eventually must force a perpetual check to salvage his half point! Easy for a Saturday puzzle-because the solver is dragged kicking and screaming to the proper conclusion. |
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| Aug-19-06 | | vmur2000: May I suggest chessgames to allow flipping the board when Black to play .we could do that after going into the game but that spoils the fun of solving. |
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| Aug-19-06 | | EmperorAtahualpa: <Boy is this an O'Henry finish!!> <kevin86> O'Henry? Which game specifically are you referring to? |
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| Aug-19-06 | | Tactical: <PhilFeeley>Yes. |
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| Aug-19-06 | | Halldor: Actually I didn't get this - not quite, I saw the continuation until 37. g1 nearly instantly, then I was too impatient and checked the solution immediately, thought that Black would win, missed a7! Excellent puzzle. |
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| Aug-19-06 | | vmur2000: @EmperorAtahualpa
O Henry is a famous author known for twists in the tale at the end.(in the last line many times) |
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Aug-19-06
 | | KingG: Got it, but i recognised the position from some tactics book. I think it was 'Chess Tactics for Kids', a pretty good book by the way despite the title. |
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Aug-19-06
 | | dakgootje: Always nice when you get the puzzle of your birthday, especcially when its a saturday ;-) |
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| Aug-19-06 | | b.roberts5150: I give up. Why does black agree to a draw? After 37...Rxb4, what can white do? |
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Aug-19-06
 | | dzechiel: Found it, but it took me a long time. At first I wanted to "block" the g-file by advancing my rook and allow it to be captured by a white pawn, but I couldn't get it to work and I still couldn't promote the a-pawn. The closer I looked at the position, the more I realized that black was one move away from disaster. For instance, 34...Rgc8 allows 35 Rg7+ Kh8 36 Rh7+ Kxh7 37 Qg7#. So, it had to be something forcing and it had to be now! That's what led me to investigate 34...Qxg1+, and I then noticed that no matter how black captured on g1, after the rook capture on g4, the white queen would be out of position for the a-pawn advance. In fact, I thought black was winning, overlooking the fact that after 37...Rxb4 that white could respond with 38 Qa7! stopping the immediate promotion and setting up a perpetual check on the black king. I guess that Kreiman and Christianson noticed this finesse well in advance and decided to save some energy. |
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Aug-19-06
| | GoldenKnight: This is more of a Monday puzzle. It was so obvious I thought I was missing something big-time. But I wasn't. Did chessgames.com itself miss something here (i.e. did they actually mean to have this on Monday)? |
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| Aug-19-06 | | aazqua: I can't believe how easy this puzzle was. Q*R is an obvious try - the reply is forced, after r*r q*r white has no way to stop the pawn and must race around for the perpetual. SImple. |
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Sep-04-06
 | | patzer2: The surprise sham sacrifice 34...Qxg1+!! enables Black to promote the passed a-pawn. |
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