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| Mar-29-06 | | Aware: I got this one but missed yesterdays |
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| Mar-29-06 | | yataturk: This is not a wed puzzle.. no way. |
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| Mar-29-06 | | witty: what do u mean, it is too difficult or too easy for wednesday standard |
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| Mar-29-06 | | Confuse: ah missed it. the lady takes the crown... |
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| Mar-29-06 | | shaikh123: got it right away not that difficult.
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| Mar-29-06 | | Rookinstein: Easy Wednesday puzzle
27.♘g6+ fxg6 [...♔g8 28. ♕xe8+ ♗xe8 29.♖xe8+ ♔h7 30.♘f8+ ♔g8 31.♘h7#] 28.♕f4+ and its white's queen vs black's rook and bishop in the endgame with white up by two pawns in the endgame |
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| Mar-29-06 | | yataturk: Too difficult... |
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| Mar-29-06 | | yataturk: I think this is a lot harder than yesterday's.. |
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Mar-29-06
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| Mar-29-06 | | NakoSonorense: "I think this is a lot harder than yesterday's.." that's the idea... |
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| Mar-29-06 | | Ashram64: There is no hard puzzle once you understand the position. It took a several minutes to analyze the position.. . i am just a confused as some people :) Then I saw white rook is distantly pinning the black queen..somehow if i could move them away by 27 Ng6+ variation 1: 27...fxg6 28. Qf5+ Qf7 29. Qxd6+ winning the exchange and initiative. Variation 2 is Rxg6 Qxc5+ winning the black queen with Rxe8 next.
Variation 3 is what Rookinstein mentioned ealier with 27...kg8 with mate coming really quickly. Not a hard puzzle, but definitely required patience to see it! |
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| Mar-29-06 | | Ashram64: it would be such a different ballgame if black recapture the first white rook with Bxe8... serious blunder =/ |
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| Mar-29-06 | | Calculoso: The move is sort of called for in the position (when told there is a puzzle) but how does one meet Rxg6? |
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| Mar-29-06 | | Monoceros: Wicked clever! The key for me was seeing the Queen fork if White could manage Qf4+. The only option afterward for Black is giving up the Queen. Good stuff. |
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| Mar-29-06 | | jmelton: The key is that Black's rook and c-pawn are both undefended, and White has the knight check on g6 backed by his bishop on c2. So if the pawn takes, then White has a discovered attack on the Black queen with check and can take it with check if Black blocks with the rook. That's the game continuation. If Black blocks with 28...Qf7, then White picks up the hanging rook with 29. Qxd6+ and then the c-pawn the next move. If Black takes with the rook then there's another discovered attack on the Black queen with 28. Qxc5+. So Black has his pick of three different ways to be at a decisive material disadvantage. |
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| Mar-29-06 | | Rookinstein: <Calculoso> 27....♖xg6?? 28. ♕xc5+!! ♔g8 29. ♖xe8 ♗xe8 30.♗xg6 and black is in a miserable state |
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| Mar-29-06 | | idriveacapri: You guys are probably better than me, but it feels good to say I found that one easy. |
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| Mar-29-06 | | dzechiel: Saw the combination up to the capture of the queen pretty quickly. I wasn't sure if that was the solution, as I thought it still left black with quite a bit of play. |
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| Mar-29-06 | | Rookinstein: Another Variation
28.♕f4+ ♕f7 29. ♕xd6+ ♔g8 30. ♗b3 and again black is in deep trouble |
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| Mar-29-06 | | Fezzik: This position is well known, and deserves to be studied even more! The tactic is fairly easy to see, but the dominance of the queen *after* the combination is the instructive part of the game. This week's theme seems to be how to use endgame technique to bring home the point after the pyrotechnics are over. I like it! By the way, yesterday's position came from a game that was only a week old. It's at least a Sunday-level puzzle once you realise that you aren't even winning any material! I'm not complaining (just the opposite), but GM Asrian has every right to be proud of the game. And GM(?) Pashikian had every right to play on at least until the time control at move 40. |
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| Mar-29-06 | | ganstaman: <<Rookinstein>: <Calculoso> 27....Rxg6?? 28. Qxc5+!! Kg8 29. Rxe8 Bxe8 30.Bxg6 and black is in a miserable state>>If only you had shown me Qxc5+ sooner I might actually have gotten this. I looked at Ng6+ but gave up after 27...Rxg6 28.Bxg6?? Qxe3 29.Rxe3 fxg6 and black won a knight and bishop for a rook. Oh well, another one missed. |
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| Mar-29-06 | | Marvol: <Fezzik: This position is well known, and deserves to be studied even more! The tactic is fairly easy to see, but the dominance of the queen *after* the combination is the instructive part of the game.> I was just about to write something along these lines, too. I have just read most of 'Rethinking the chess pieces' by Soltis, and the chapter on queen v pieces is just what this game is about. White prevents any decent coordination between the remaining black pieces, and also uses the queen in double attacks to target whatever weaknesses remain in black's structure. 32.Qd5 attacks both the pawn on c5 and the knight, preventing the bishop and the knight from moving.
35.Ba4 seeks to exchange a piece, which is important because black needs these to defend his fractured pawn structure.
After 36...Bxd7, all black's weak pawns are waiting to be picked off, which white duly does. |
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| Mar-29-06 | | prinsallan: I found the first move but stumbled in darkness from there on, felt like this was a friday when I saw the solution. Great ending anyway. |
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| Mar-29-06 | | Dim Weasel: Didn't solve this one and didn't solve yesterday's. Are these puzzles getting relatively more difficult than before, or is it just me getting dumber with old age? |
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| Mar-29-06 | | jahhaj: Easiest of the week so far, although I guess it's quite an original combination. I was originally looking at Ng6+ as part of some sort of mating attack, but soon realised the idea was just to deliver check with the queen so you could follow with Rxe8+. |
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sac: 27.Ng6+