| Dec-03-10 | | chessthomas: what a nice attack by white!
imo, 16. Rd5! would make a nice friday or saturday puzzle. better, but
also insufficient for black was
19.- Kh8 20.Qh4 h5 21.Dg5 Kg7
22.Nxh5+ Kg8 23.Nf6+ Kg7 24.Qe5 Rg8
25.Nxg8+ Kxg8 26.Bh6 and mate to follow! |
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| Sep-21-22 | | Honey Blend: 21. ♘h5+ f6 22. ♕e7 would have been a quicker finish. |
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| Sep-21-22 | | Brenin: 22 Bg7+ Kcg7 23 Ne8+ (better than 23 Nh5+ Kh6 24 Qg7+ Kxh5) Kh6 24 Qf4+ g5 (24 ... Kh5 26 Ng7 mate) 25 Qf6+ Kh5 26 Ng7+ Kh4 27 Qf2 mate. An ingenious way of winkling the Black K out of his den. |
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| Sep-21-22 | | mel gibson: That was more like a Monday puzzle - so easy:
Stockfish 15 says mate in 6:
22. Bg7+
(22. Bg7+ (♗h6-g7+ ♔h8xg7 ♘f6-e8+
♔g7-h6 ♕e5-f4+ g6-g5 ♕f4-f6+ ♔h6-h5 ♘e8-g7+ ♔h5-h4 ♕f6-f2+) +M6/153 12) |
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| Sep-21-22 | | mayankk06: White wants to give a discovered check but his Queen is attacked. So he needs to make it a double-check which will force the Black King to move and his Queen remains safe. 22 Bg7+ Kxg7 23 Ne8+
A 23 ... Kg8 24 Qg7#
B 23 ... Kh6 24 Qf4+ g5 25 Qf6+ Kh5 26 g4+/Ng7+ etc. results in a King hunt which should end in a mate as Black pieces are far away. |
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| Sep-21-22 | | jrredfield: As <mel gibson> said, quite easy - saw 22 Bg7+ very quickly. Any other move by White leads to an advantage for Black. |
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| Sep-21-22 | | Cheapo by the Dozen: As in yesterday's puzzle, the essence is very easy, but finishing off the mate drags on a bit. I actually went with Qg7+ as my third move, which also forces mate. |
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| Sep-21-22 | | saturn2: IWhite drags the king into a discovered check. I had the game line till move 25...Kh5 where I took 26.g4+ instead of 26.Ng7+
It is my chess psychology first to look at moving forward than backward. |
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| Sep-21-22 | | agb2002: White is one rook and one pawn down.
Black threatens Nxe5.
Black won't be able to capture the queen if the discovered check is a double check. Hence, 22.Bg7+ Kxg7 23.Ne8+ Kh6 (23... Kg8 24.Qg7#) 24.Qf4+ g5 (24... Kh5 25.Nf6(g7)#) 25.Qf6+ Kh5 26.Ng7+ Kh4 27.Qf2#. |
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| Sep-21-22 | | get Reti: Surprisingly, I saw all the moves in the solution before even realizing that the queen is en prise. But then my solution was good anyways. |
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| Sep-21-22 | | AlicesKnight: Found the way in; the double-check is the key and Black is prised out. Attractive finish. |
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| Sep-21-22 | | Brenin: 21 Nh5+ f6 22 Qe7 waș a quicker path to mate. After 21 Bh6, 21 ... Qd8 would have made White's task harder, though I think it still loses. |
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| Sep-21-22 | | TheaN: Got this fairly quickly, bit on the easy side as the key move jumps out, yet the king hunt's satisfying: <22.Bg7+> is the 'surprise' move here to put Black in the fire of a doublecheck. Else, the attack on the queen matters. <22....Kxg7 23.Ne8+> Nh5+ might work too but this puts the knight out of the king's path so is generally better. <23....Kh6 (Kg8 24.Qg7#) 24.Qf4+> g7 is covered (as it was a doublecheck) so we now want the king to move further <24....g5 (Kh5 25.Ng7#) 25.Qf6+ Kh5 26.Ng7+ Kh4> and just as it seems the king might be running away, <27.Qf2#>. |
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| Sep-21-22 | | TheaN: Just to clarify, 23.Nh5+?! does indeed work too, but then the rook starts playing a critical part and White only just confines the king, even needing a waiting move. The beauty of the game solution is that Rh1 doesn't even participate. For reference: <1) mated-in-9 (24 ply) 23...Kh6 24.Qf4+ Kxh5 25.g4+ Kh4 26.Qf6+ Kg3 27.Rg1+ Kxh3 28.Qf1+ Kh4 29.Qf4 Qe1+ 30.Rxe1 Kh3 31.Rg1 Kh4 32.Qh6#> |
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Sep-21-22
 | | Dionysius1: Yeah! A King hunt! I got it by thinking what was the most forcing move among the candidates. I ended up mating with the King on g1. Good fun. e2 would have been prettier though (darn you Stockfish. No-one likes a cleverclogs) |
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| Sep-21-22 | | Brenin: David Mabbs was a rising star in the UK, back in the 1960s when I was starting to play. He played in the 1974 British Championship, and then he seemed to disappear from chess. Does anyone know what happened? |
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Sep-21-22
 | | chrisowen: Its war quick joey its jekyll you Bg7+ mackey its z fab abattoir auld its a bubble vehement ceg choice Bg7+ cub; |
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| Sep-21-22 | | TheaN: <Brenin: David Mabbs was a rising star in the UK, back in the 1960s when I was starting to play. He played in the 1974 British Championship, and then he seemed to disappear from chess. Does anyone know what happened?> Only one post on his player page: David J Mabbs, where GrahamClayton posted he already retired once to get back later, played in the '74 championship and then retired again. Unlikely you'll get much more info unless it's from David himself. |
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| Sep-21-22 | | King.Arthur.Brazil: The winning move is 22. ♗g7+ ♔xg7 23. ♘e8+, the options are: 1) ♔g8 24. ♕g7# or the longer way: 23...♔h6 24. ♕f4+ ♔h5 25. ♘f6# or 24...g5 25. ♕f6+ ♔h5 26. ♘g7+ ♔h4 27. ♕f2#. I guess many will print this answer. (I rewrote because the mate comes quickly). |
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| Sep-21-22 | | stacase: That Bishop sacrifice putting the Black into the breach was really cute. I did finally see it after casting around looking at how to take advantage of the discovered attack line-up. But after looking at the piece count and noting that Black has superior forces. I went for the perpetual check and a draw. Which could have been achieved with 23. Ng4+ |
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| Sep-21-22 | | aporia: I saw that this was a B-D Gambit and just had to look at how the King side attack came about. 16. Rd5 was filthy. |
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Jun-12-24
 | | John Saunders: The 1972 date given for this game is definitely wrong as it was published in CHESS Magazine, March 1961, page 223. Best guess would be earlier in 1961 or perhaps late 1960. The occasion was an Eastman Cup match between Cedars (David Mabbs's club) and Athenaeum (the Eastman Cup being a team k.o. competition between London League teams). David Mabbs is alive and well and still interested in chess. Black in the game was Laurence Alexander. According to Richard James's research he was born 12 June 1900 and died 18 August 1991 (https://www.ecforum.org.uk/viewtopi...) |
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Kibitzing
sac: 16.Rd5