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| May-30-17 | | agb2002: Black has an extra pawn.
White threatens K(Q)xg2 and Qxf6+.
The white rook is defenseless. This suggests 35... Rh1+ 36.Kxg2 Qa8+ (36... Rxc1 37.Qxf6+ looks drawing at least for White) 37.Qf3 Qxf3+ 38.Kxf3 Rxc1 - + [r+p vs B]. |
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| May-30-17 | | saturn2: Black has a pawn more but white threatens Qxf6+ 35 ..Rh1 36 KxR (forced)Qa8+(not yet RxR)
37 Qf3 QxQ 38 KxQ RxR  |
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| May-30-17 | | Vermit: Objectively 34.Qf2 was the losing move. The exchange of queens, and then if needs be the exchange of rooks would have led to a drawn endgame. |
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May-30-17
 | | keypusher: Black made use of the entire chessboard! |
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| May-30-17 | | morfishine: My "solution" stands opposite <Phony Benoni> I saw 35...Rh1+ 36.Kxg2 <36...Rxc1> but overlooked the much better 36...Qa8+ :( ***** |
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| May-30-17 | | cocker: White didn't prepare 'imself well enough. |
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| May-30-17 | | whiteshark: Forced move sequence <35...Rh1+ 36.Kxg2 Qa8+ 37.Qf3 Qxf3+ 38.Kxf3 Rxc1> wins ♖/♗. |
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| May-30-17 | | Once: It's a shame that white resigned when he did. Black gets to play a series of long moves which involve almost all four corners of the board. The position after 36. Qa8+ has a delightful symmetry with the added bonus of an x-ray defence of the Rh1. 
click for larger viewPretty. |
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| May-30-17 | | newzild: <morfishine> Unfortunately 36...Rxc1 only draws after 37. Qxf6+. |
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May-30-17
 | | Sally Simpson: It's the threat of White playing Qxf6+ and taking on g2 that gives clues something drastic is needed. This could be Black playing Rh1+ week. yesterdays solution was the same move. Could easily have been missed, and indeed it was by White, 36.Qa8 is a long check. Here (White to play)
click for larger viewOur dear friend Harry Hindsight (a great name for a kibitzer that) says White could have and should have taken the Queens off with a probable draw. But the European Cup is a team event, perhaps Makoli,s team was already down on a few boards and a draw was no good. |
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| May-30-17 | | bla bla: GG
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| May-30-17 | | Iwer Sonsch: 35...Rh1+ 36.Kxg2 Qa8+ (disarming the white Queen) 37.Qf3 Qxf3+ 38.Kxf3 Rxc1 with a won endgame. |
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| May-30-17 | | Captain Hindsight: Better would have been <34.QxQ+ KxQ 35.Rc8+ Kg7 36.Rc7+ K~ 37.RxR KxR 38.Bc7> <Sally Simpson> In hindsight, my real prename is <Capta>, not Harry. |
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| May-30-17 | | patzer2: I missed an obvious follow-up in today's Tuesday puzzle (35...?), thinking that after 35...Rxh1+ 36. Kxg2, I was obligated to continue 36...Rxc1? when White secures a near level game with 37. Qxf6+ Qg7 38. Qxe6 = (0.00 @ 28 depth, Stockfish 8.) After seeing 35...Rh1+ 36. Kxg2 Rxc1? wasn't working out so well, I even considered 35...Bb2, but that fizzles out to a level game after 36. Qxf6+ Qg7 37. Qd8+ Qg8 38. Qxg8+ Kxg8 39. Rc7 = (0.00 @ 42 depth, Stockfish 8.) What I missed was the devastating in-between move (a.k.a. zwischenzug or intermezzo) 36...Qa8+! which quickly simplifies to a won endgame after 37. Qf3 Qxf3+ 38. Kxf3 Rxc1 (-7.78 @ 38 depth, Stockfish 8.) White's decisive mistake appears to be 34. Qf2? allowing 34...Bxg2!  to (-2.60 @ 33 depth, Stockfish 8.) Instead, as <Captain Hindsight> observes, better is simplifying to a level endgame with 34. Qxg8+ Kxg8 35. Rc8+ Kf7 36. Rc7+ Kg6 37. Rh7 Kxh7 38. Bc7 = (0.14 @ 44 depth, Stockfish 8.) |
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| May-30-17 | | ChessHigherCat: It's funny how much harder it would have been to solve just one move earlier with 34... black to move and win. I'll have to remember that pattern. <keypusher: Black made use of the entire chessboard!>
Yes, in fact he was subsequently banned from the club for sticking his chewing gum on the bottom of the board :-) |
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| May-30-17 | | AlicesKnight: 35...Rh1+ looks daft but I think isn't - 36.Kxg2 Qa8+ forces 37.Qf3 unusually as the R is protecting other squares and is x-ray protected by the Black Q. After Q exchanges Black takes the White R and remains the exchange up, which should be enough. Is this it? - yes. Late but worth it.... |
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| May-30-17 | | stst: A prep. move to reinforce the a8-h1 long diag. would be 35....... Qa8, guarding the B@g2. White K has nowhere to go, nor any other move puts up effective defense, and no blocking will make. Next would be Rh1#. But if first 35....... Rh1+, 36.KxB Qa8+, 37.Qf3 blocks, QxQ, 38.KxQ RxR will also put Black ahead. |
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May-30-17
 | | pittpanther: Perhaps I am just slow today but I found the puzzle harder than most Tuesday puzzles. I did eventually get it but it took me several minutes. |
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| May-30-17 | | morfishine: <newzild: <morfishine> Unfortunately 36...Rxc1 only draws after 37. Qxf6+> Yes, I am and was aware of that, hence the quotation marks :( ***** |
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| May-30-17 | | Eduardo Leon: Black can win the exchange with 35...♖h1+ 36.♔xg2 ♖xc1. The “tiny” problem is that white draws regardless: 37.♕xf6+ ♕g7 38.♕d8+. But, of course, if black first plays the intermediate 36...♕a8+ 37.♕f3 ♕xf3+ 38.♕xf3 ♖xc1, then there is no draw. |
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| May-30-17 | | catlover: <Once> True, there is something artistic about the symmetry of the position with 38 Qa8+. |
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| May-30-17 | | Cheapo by the Dozen: I found the winning idea, only in the version 36 ... Qh3+ 37 Kf3 Qf5+, which is enough to stifle immediate counterplay. Then I checked the solution to see if I'd overlooked an immediate mate, and found that all I'd overlooked was a better and prettier version of the same idea. |
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May-30-17
 | | OhioChessFan: Strange, after my recent early week struggles, I thought this a rather easy Tuesday. |
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May-30-17
| | OhioChessFan: FWIW, I have noticed that if my first intuitive move is right, regardless of calculation, then puzzles seem easy. If it's wrong, then they seem hard. Maybe there's some luck involved in the first try. |
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May-30-17
 | | eternaloptimist: I agree w/ <pittpanther>. I think this puzzle should've been upgraded to medium. I figured it out but it took me a few minutes. I figured that 35...♖h1+! was the first move in the combination pretty quickly but it took me quite a while to see 36...♕a8!+. <morf> That's ok that u didn't solve this 1. U can try to redeem yourself tomorrow! 😎 |
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