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| Jun-11-05 |
| mynameisrandy: Holy crap, I got it. I almost never get Saturday puzzles. Wee! |
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| Jun-11-05 |
| alexandrovm: ...Rxg2 seems like a good rook sac. What can white do? Only to take the rook on g2 with the king, then. Then Qg6+, and looks pretty nasty, but white can try to scape thru h1, but Rxf2 with mate to follow (but Rg1 seems to defend everything). Let's see... |
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| Jun-11-05 |
| alexandrovm: yep, it is still mate with Nf3 (Rxh2++). Nice game |
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| crafty: 23... xf2 24.  f1 g7 25.  a3 f4 26. h3  xf1  (eval -6.85; depth 14 ply; 1500M nodes) |
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| Jun-11-05 |
| Timos: Removal of pawn shield with sacrifice.
Beautiful finish with 26...f3.
"How would my opponent's king protect itself if its pawn cover were reduced or, if necessary, removed completely? If the answer is that it would be virtually helpless, it is only then a question of finding the means to achieve the uncovering."
-Paul Littlewood, Chess tactics
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| Jun-11-05 |
| billcrutcher: <Sneaky and superiorNOshow> 23. ... Rxf7 24. Bxg8 Nf3 is what I thought the solution was, but sure enough, White has a way to handle the threats on h2. After 24. Bf1 Nf3?? White can answer with 25. Qxg8+. After Black runs to a7 to hide, 26. Qg3 threatens the Black Queen, the remaining rook, and the Knight is attacked by the g2 pawn. Black is pretty much forced to trade queens in order not to lose a second rook. Black's mating threats have evaporated and he's a full rook down. White should win easily. As crafty has shown, 23. ... Rxf2 can be a win for black, too, but not after 24. ... Nf3?? So I missed the winning line for Black. Dagnabbit. |
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| Jun-11-05 |
| aw1988: Vary pretty. |
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| Jun-11-05 |
| sljuka: It was obvious black has to destroy pawn protection around white king if he wants to win quickly. When one realise this, it is not too difficult to see the winning combination. Of course, 26....Nf3 is beautiful! |
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| OhioChessFan: First Saturday I've gotten. It almost played itself though, since clearly the first move was going to be made by the g8 rook. |
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| kevin86: The sac of the rook sets up the sac by the queen-which ed to the Arabian mate. Note:a semi-serious aside:if the Arabian Mate was govered the same way as the Arabian government,women would not be allowed to use it. |
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| Jun-11-05 |
| halcyonteam: Arabian nights-arabian mates.
Have to brush up my skills a little more. |
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| Jun-11-05 |
| Jimzovich: It was easy because every move was a forcing move. Not like some of the problems we faced last week, where there were alternative answers and the discussion was long. But hey checkmate in 5 is still considered intermediate puzzle. |
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| Richard Taylor: I got all this - the N move I liked -glad I saw it - I know these patterns also - At first I mused on 23. ...Rg2 24. Kg2 Rf2+ 25. Kf2 and then Q:h2+ or Qf4+ but couldn't see a win... So I saw what happened and the other line: 26. Bf1 R:h2+ 27. K:h2 Nf3+ 28. Kh3 Qg4 # or 28. Kh1 Qg1# An energetic attack and a very beautiful finish by Black |
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| Jun-11-05 |
| kcb: billcrutcher,23...Rxf2 24.Bf1 and then may be R8g4 or Rgf8.I think in both cases black shall win. |
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| patzer2: Although it's a pretty deflection mate with the puzzle solution 23...Rxg2!!, the tactical theme is so unique and clever I decided to add it to my demolition of pawn structure collection. |
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| Jun-11-05 |
| farrooj: Hey guys!
What is this easy puzzle week? too bad...i was waiting for saturday for a difficult puzzle. Very beautiful though Nice arab mate.
I thought of 24 Rg8+ followed by Nf3. I think it wins faster no? |
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| Jun-11-05 |
| minimaxing: <farrooj> If 24... Rg8+ then 25. Bxg8 |
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| Jun-11-05 |
| Kingsandsquares: Saudi Arabian Government, if you please... |
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| Jun-11-05 |
| abject: The line up to move 8 can be found in a few games in books and on-line so this is possibly known up to this point or simply “smart” decisions on opening moves by both players.
- While white’s 9th move is found as a strong continuation in the books – this game shows why it is not, and that Nc4 was better. Setting up Nc4 with Qf3 and Bd2 was much more of a flexible / stronger continuation than what white picked for 9/10/11 move order. And also held back the permanent pawn move of a4 – allowing this to be played later as need. Now it could not be moved back. In fact, imho, this was such a bad choice for move 9, that black had equal options with choosing either Nf6 or Be6 ….and still would en dup with the same over all position and only slight disadvantage. I believe white focused too much on b5 as a respond for move … 9 overlooking other continuations. And he overlooked an attack on e5 with bc3 and Qg3.
- I think 14. h3 or a5 should now be played. Nc4 is too late indemnifying the need for it and to develop the bishop. And the attack on e5 is still missed.
14. … bc5?? Is a mistake here and critical as Black respond to this mistake was incorrect – and pivotal in setting up the loss for B. Black should have played Nd7 (watch e5) or h5 – stopping Qg3 (which also eyes e5). Move 13 was unlucky for white?!! As Bg5 (working g6) or h3 (Stopping Bg4) was better. Be3 was simply BAD! To the point of giving up what little advantage White had up to this point in mounting a true attack – or defense
- By missing the fact 13 Bc4 was poor, and by responding unaware of this, with white’s own poor move, the position is now set for back to initiate the exchange that helped shift power. Even with Be3, white still after the exchange is shown with Fritz to have a small advantage …. That should have been bigger!
- 17. Qxg7 was premature as placing a rook on the e-file would have been better – stopping the knight from the exchange and then moving on to the bishop – that should not have bee on c4 (It was on C4 only because of the exchange that was allowed)
- 19, Move 19 again was bad. Placing the h-rook on d1 pinning the knight was needed.
- Move 20 was the straw in the Camel’s back move! Qe6 keeping status quota was better.
- 21 Qg6 was better here again! But white is struggling beyond recovery
- 22 Be2 would have slowed Black’s death down but it was inevitable.
- Now the cool point of what I see: e4 is the true starting point of the death! And is what white failed to start an attack on back, on move 9! 1) Move 9 - missing the possible attack strategy on e5 with the thought of bc3 /nc4 / qg3
2) Be3 (Not seeing Bc4 as poor) - forcing the exchange and giving black an equal game overall.
3) Move 17 was premature allowing the N/B exchange
4) Move from 9 to 19 set white up with a “fragile position” that could no longer with stand a move that was not “Best”!
5) Move 20. Be3 causes white to lose if Black takes the new found initiative and finds the winning combo. Which happened!! With the e-pawn’s help! |
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| Jun-11-05 |
| avidfan: 20.b3 Rhf8 21.Qxh5 Rxf2 22.Qxe5 seems better for White? The ending 26...Nf3 threatening 27...R-h2# occurs again in actual play. (If 27.Rg2 Rxg2 and 28...R-h2#) Seems as if White 'undeveloped' his Queen at a2 as it could not defend against the final blow by the Knight, which had a commanding post at d2. |
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| Jun-11-05 |
| FearsomePawn: <mynameisrandy> Me too. I rarely get Saturday puzzles (I'm only in the 1500's uscf) but this seemed pretty easy and logical. First, the knight prevents the king from escaping to the f file (I recogninzed this right away). So I just figured that Black must blast away the king's pawn cover and a successful mating attack will occur. Since the BR on g8 was attacked sac'ing it right away seemed natural. The rest was easy. Even the Arabian mate threat at the end came to me almost right away. I think this was one of the easier Saturday puzzles because I was able to solve it in less than a minute. |
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| Jun-11-05 |
| aginis: nice i saw this one through in under a minute...i wonder if its because i just played blitz on yahoo for 2 hours?
anyway that knight controlling f1 and f3 begged for a check on the g file. so Rxg2 was the first move i analysed even though its not a check. after 23...Rxg2 24.KxR Qg6+ 25.Kh1 Rxf2 with the threat of mate seemed likely and from there spotting the classic RN mate in the corner wasn't too difficult. |
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| Jun-11-05 |
| aginis: <farrooj> what would you classify as difficult? any puzzle will be a forced set of moves, if you are looking for a puzzle that has 25 different variations each with its own thematic ending i will remind you that those puzzles are constructs of art, and never occur in OTB play. If you really find these puzzles trivial i recommend endgame studies.
try these two on for size
white: Kd5 Pa6 Pf5
black: Kf4 Pa7 Pf6
white to play and win
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white:Kg6 Pf7
Black:Kh1 Re6
white (who is in check) to play and win.
This one is supposedly a famous game where Capablanca accepted a draw and woke up the next morning realizing he had a win, however i can not find it in the database. Any info would be appreciated. |
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| midknightblue: Possibilities:
1. Today is not Saturday
2. I am getting smarter
3. The law of averages came into play and I was bound to get one sooner or later
4. This was the easiest Saturday puzzle ever |
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| Jun-11-05 |
| morphy234: That was way too eezy |
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