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| Jan-12-15 | | zb2cr: A Rook sacrifice to start the week! 25. ... Rxc1+; 26. Kxc1, Qa1#. |
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| Jan-12-15 | | Cheapo by the Dozen: I used to play Larsen's opening (1 b3), but I never saw the point of the Polish. |
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Jan-12-15
 | | Bubo bubo: 25... Rxc1+ 26.Kxc1 Qa1#
The sacs on Monday are getting smaller... |
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| Jan-12-15 | | whiteshark: 25...Rxc1+ and white is parr-cooked. |
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| Jan-12-15 | | wooden nickel: I think this could also be considered a transposed Anderssen's Opening (1.a3), at any rate Sokolsky always played 2.Bb2. White should have followed the saying <"Castle early and often!">, in this position there aren't too many moves that do not win! |
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Jan-12-15
 | | Penguincw: Never saw this game before, but I got it. :D
Not sure if it's certain, but if black wants to "torture" white, 25...Qa1 26.Ke1 Qxc1+ 27.Kf2 Qxd2+ 28.Kg1 Qe3+ 29.Kg2 Rc2+ also seems playable. |
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Jan-12-15
 | | Sally Simpson: Erik the Unready v Erik the Well Read.
At least with this starting position...
click for larger view...one should not set off by looking at 'White to Play' solutions as myslf and quite a few other solvers on here have admitted doing with a 'Black to play' puzzle. There is just nothing in the White position to even tempt you to start looking for White Monday Morning Sacrifices. Of course the simple cure is to read what the condition actually says but a lifetime of doing 'White to #2' problems or 'White to play and win' puzzles is having an effect. There is a Beginner's Book that may cure you/us of this. http://www.redhotpawn.com/blog/blog... The author actually suggests when playing over the examples you get up and swap chairs after every move to look at the board from both sides. (you are not allowed to spin the board around, you must physically get up and move around to the other side of the board.) Now although I've had some fun with this, (I'm still trying to imagine two players who have learn't to play using the same book playing each other.)
I've never tried it. I'm not a GM, so who knows, maybe this is the missing link, the secret that only GM's know and have, up until now, kept to themselves. |
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| Jan-12-15 | | rinkol: White's position is certainly wretched. It would appear that Qf2, threatening Qxf3+ is an alternative, albeit slower alternative to the game line. |
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| Jan-12-15 | | YetAnotherAmateur: 25. ... Rxc1+ 26. Kxc1 Qa1# and that's all she wrote. But white's position is in shambles long before the problem started. He's obviously pinning all his hopes on the chance of Qe8#, but that opportunity never comes. |
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| Jan-12-15 | | TheaN: 12 January 2015 <25....?> Black ends the misery of white in his horrid undeveloped position with <25....Rxc1+ 26.Kc1 Qa1# 0-1> where it only took white one nudge to the left to be mated. It kind of shows how weak the position already was. Ever since the rook retreat white has hardly any hope of development. This is painfully shown if white plays for example 23.Bg2? Qe5+ 24.Kf1 Qe2+ 25.Kg1 Qe1#, completely boxed in in his own position. Or 19.Bd3? Ne5. After 23.f3 it is already done: note that 24.Qa4 is not even a mistake: it stops Re8+ momentarily, it just doesn't improve white's position otherwise. <An Englishman> is probably right: as early as 13.Qc2 white loses control. After 13.Bb5, white is still sort of ok, and at least has the freedom of O-O coming up the first moment he can. White didn't, though. <Cheapo by the Dozen: I used to play Larsen's opening (1 b3), but I never saw the point of the Polish.> It is kind of the similar idea behind the Benko, Evans and Wing Gambits: undermining c4 or c5 as defense point for the centre. The Larsen opening is hypermodern positional play, the Polish is more along the line of wing expansion with a hypermodern theme. The immediate weakness of b4 might show why Santasierre's Folly (1.Nf3 d5 2.b4), which was yesterday's opening of the day, may be more justified in this idea as Nf3 defends against an immediate e5. Objectively though, exposing the undefended wing pawns this quick is unnecessary and does not seem to give enough spatial compensation for the overextension. |
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| Jan-12-15 | | Castleinthesky: Caffeine and a Monday puzzle, a morning recipe. |
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| Jan-12-15 | | mjmorri: 13.Qc2 seems to be the culprit, reducing the Rook's options. White cleverly saves it but at the cost of many tempos. |
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| Jan-12-15 | | Strelets: Standard Monday fare. Sacrifice the exchange on c1 to force mate on the next move. I must admit that I'm not all that up on the theory of the Polish/Sokolskii so the discussion above has helped. But who is Bugaev? The only Bugaev I've heard of [Boris Nikolaevich] is better known by the pen name of Andrei Bely. This Bugaev/Bely was the author of the novel "Petersburg," [1913] one of the greatest works of 20th century Russian prose. Vladimir Nabokov considered it a masterpiece on par with "Ulysses" and « À la recherche du temps perdu » by Proust. |
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| Jan-12-15 | | BwanaVa: As far as the Sokolsky Opening goes, the correct move after 1. b4 e5 is 2. Bb2. If 2...Bxb4 then 3. Bxe5. The point to some level is that it takes players out of the regular book, and if played correctly gets you through the opening into a generally playable middle game. Of course, that was the logic of many years ago before the current QGD/Slav craze took over... |
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| Jan-12-15 | | kevin86: I missed it from the diagramm but I saw it when I played up to it! Kind of chess blindness in reverse! |
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| Jan-12-15 | | Chess Dad: 25... Rxc1+ 26. Kxc1 Qa1#.
Others have mentioned how terrible White's position is at the start of the puzzle. I just took a look at the Black pawn on d3 with White's King on d1 and knew that was going to be an important part of the solution. I played back the moves, and as others have mentioned, White's attempts to keep his Rook alive after 13. Qc2 put him in an absolutely terrible position. |
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| Jan-12-15 | | BOSTER: <Sally Simpson: you are not allowed to spin the board around>. According to A.Soltis everybody can play blindfold chess. So, if he is right, you can spin the chess board around in your head. Of course, such switch requires some time, but this is a real bargain. It should be said it is not everyone who likes keeping an eye on the opponent, and believe me if you as white look at the pos. from another side the pawn d3 does not change his color. By the way, even many top players like to walk around and see the pos. from different side(not in the 5 minute game). |
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Jan-12-15
 | | gawain: An unusual and (to me) pleasing finish as the queen mates with the tiniest little assistance from her pawn on d3 (and white's own pawn on d2). Thanks to <Once> for those illuminating comments about the Polish. |
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Jan-12-15
 | | playground player: This doesn't look to me like the best way to play the Polish Opening. You'd never catch Yurij Lapshun winding up like this--or Sokolsky himself. |
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| Jan-12-15 | | Longview: I thought of 25....Qf2 but the game played is more forcing. I did not recognize that 26....Qa1 was the mate right off. Poor MateVision. |
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| Jan-12-15 | | stst: Jan 12, 2015 today, right??
Looks like this is a REPETITION!!!
I remember this easy one:
25..... RxB+
26. KxR(forced) Q-a1#
Is the database exhausted already?? Or, simply get some more difficult puzz....pl. |
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Jan-12-15
 | | FSR: Must be Monday. If one somehow missed 25...Rxc1+, 25...Qa1 would be quite sufficient. |
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| Jan-12-15 | | Bobsterman3000: The "Morozevich Mate" by sticking the queen in the corner !! |
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| Jan-12-15 | | farshids: The position is untenable for white starting at 22! |
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Jan-13-15
 | | Domdaniel: The Sokolsky (aka Orang-Utan, Polish, Santasiere, etc) may be a little dubious, but I don't think it's really bad. White here makes the classic mistake of playing passively, and allowing Black to build up a crushing position. Curiously, the Black version of this opening (Polish Defence, Spassky Variation) with 1.d4 b5 may be more playable. This is a feature also of 1.f4/ 1.d4 f5, where the latter (The Dutch) is more highly regarded than the former, Bird's Opening. I have no idea why this is the case. In principle, you would think that a dodgy opening system would be more playable as White than as Black ... and yet these two seem to be the other way round. The Reversed Benoni, a sort of Reti where Black plays ...d4, is also much less popular than the Benoni proper. |
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