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| Marco65: <Sneaky> 25.Ne7 <stick a fork in ya, you're done!!> <maybe you wanted to put that knight in d7 didn't you?> <oops sure it just slipped off my hand...> <ah ha irregular move you lost!> <sure, find an arbiter in the park...> <you are a cheater> <repeat it if you dare> I hate playing in a park... |
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| Oct-05-06 |
| Castle In The Sky: Got it in under 30 seconds. This is a great overworked piece puzzle. Black's rook is both defending the bishop and defending e7 square from the king queen fork.  a8 creates an additional burden for the rook by forcing it to choose bewteen defending the knight and preventing the fork. Consequently, it is overworked. |
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| Oct-05-06 |
| Marco65: <Sneaky> arbiter = "tournament director" wrong translation from Italian sorry |
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| kevin86: This puzzle was surprizingly easy for a Thursday-I saw Qa8 like a shot! Maybe that is to make up for yesterday's fiasco. |
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| Oct-05-06 |
| aldehyde: was an easy one.....
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Oct-05-06
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| Peligroso Patzer: This has to be one of the most original defletion moves I have ever seen. |
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Oct-05-06
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| outplayer: hey I am getting better at solving this. Solved it in a few minutes. Maybe 2 minutes. First part I saw the nice position of the knight threatening to fork the queen at c8. Then I saw the rook at a7. It's a deflection! Then I only had to calculate the variation 'cause Qa8 is almost obvious. |
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Oct-05-06
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| outplayer: Week theme: queen sacrifices. |
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Oct-05-06
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| YouRang: Well, what do you know? I got it! :-)
Right away, I spotted the potential for the knight fork (Nxe7+), which threatens to win a Q+B outright -- and the only thing stopping it was the rook on a7. So, almost anything I can do to deflect this rook from it's defense of e7 will be worthwhile! Still, for some reason, it took me a couple minutes to consider the direct, but insane-looking 21. Qa8!! |
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| Oct-05-06 |
| kelu: do competition of solving this kind of pb exist on-line ?
thanks |
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| Oct-05-06 |
| ricochetrabbit: Another interesting line..
21. Qa8 Bd8 22. Qxa7 Nc6 23. Ne7+ Nxe7 24. Qb8 (Rcd1 25. Nc6 and the queen is trapped). This leaves white with a rook for a minor peice. For me, I'm never sure I can certainly win with this much advantage :). But who am I kidding, I'm no 'crazystuff'. |
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Oct-05-06
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| alphee: I saw a8 as a possible move for the Queen but rejected it on the basis that Black would keep protecting the e7 Bishop by  b7 or d7. Exchanging the Queens by 21 ... xa8 22.  xe7  h8/f8 23. xd8 did not appeal to me and I ended up investigating  e5 chasing the other rook to e7 but with no obvious outcome ... |
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Oct-05-06
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| desiobu: Missed it. I thought the 21. Qa8 Bd8 lines people came up with were pretty slick though. Sneaky's Qxb8 line in particular. |
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| Oct-05-06 |
| Trouble: I got this one pretty easily |
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| Oct-05-06 |
| JYMMI: I got this one very easily... |
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| Open Defence: I think to truly understand the tactics available you need to go through <Sneaky's> 21...Bd8 |
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| Oct-05-06 |
| Kreifi: Did not find it and it was so easy and oblivious. I'm just a another patzer. :( |
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| savuflorin1983: <Sneaky> In fact, 21. ...Bd8 deserves 1 or even 2 ?-s, because it could continue: 22. Qxa7 Nc6 23. Ne7+! Bxe7 [23. ...Kf8 24.Nxc8 Nxa7 25. Nxa7  ] 24. Qxe7 and Black is toast |
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| playground player: Why not 21. Bb4, which winds up with White trading a bishop and knight for a bishop and rook? Not quite as good as the right answer--but I didn't get the right answer! |
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| Oct-05-06 |
| slowcrawl: Haha, this was nifty. Didn't solve it. It seemed amazing to see that won material no matter what. |
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Oct-05-06
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| Peligroso Patzer: <queenvsrook: what about bh4?> After 21. Bh4, it seems that 21. ... Rxg6 enables Black to avoid losing the exchange, with an essentially even game. |
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| OhioChessFan: Saw the Qa8 shot immediately. 2 recent games I've looked at had a similar Queen move. One on <Knight13> page, and a Kramnik-Deep Fritz game where I've been trying to find a good line for Kramnik with a threatened Qa1. |
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| OhioChessFan: <In fact, 21. ...Bd8 deserves 1 or even 2 ?-s, because it could continue: 22. Qxa7 Nc6 23. Ne7+! Bxe7 [23. ...Kf8 24.Nxc8 Nxa7 25. Nxa7 ] 24. Qxe7 and Black is toast> <savuflorin1983> did you forget about that Black Knight on c6? |
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| Oct-05-06 |
| Chess Addict: Wow, this is the first puzzle I solved. |
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| Jan-02-09 |
| WhiteRook48: hanging queen on a8 is just funny- only to make opponent give queen back |
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