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| SomeoneElse: I found 32. Rg4, the same wrong answer as Luczak. So, do I feel good that I got the same move as someone rated 2370, bad that I didn't get today's puzzle, or good that I DID get yesterday's puzzle that proved such a challenge for many others? |
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Aug-28-08
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| SuperPatzer77: Andrei Luczak really missed a winning move - 32. Nf6!! 32. Nf6!! gxf6, 33. Rg4!! (This is the last tactical move) Qxh2+ (desperate move), 34. Kxh2 Bd6+, 35. Kg1! (Unpinning the White Queen in the h-file) Bh2+, 36. Kxh2 Re7, 37. Qxf6+ Kh7, 38. Qxe7+ Kh8, 39. Qg7# After 35. Kg1! Re7 (instead of 35...Bh2+), 36. Qxh6+ Rh7, 37. Qxf6+ Rg7, 38. Qxg7# What a beautiful combination of 32. Nf6!! Andrei Luczak has really missed!! SuperPatzer77 |
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Aug-28-08
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| YouRang: Well, I got it, but I can't be too proud about it.
If I had noticed earlier that my bishop had its sights on threatening Qh7#, I probably would have also played 32.Rd4. However, I only noticed that my rook was under attack. I didn't see any useful place to put it, and simply retreating it to a safer square seemed too pedestrian for a puzzle, so I considered countering with a threat: 32.Nf6, forcing 32...gxf6. After pondering this position for a moment, I <finally> took the b1 bishop into account, and decided that 33.Rg4! was perfectly playable (33...fxg4 34.Qh7#) and, even better, the mate threats at g8, g7 or h7 appear to be unstoppable. I guess this would be an example of "luck in chess": I actually benefited by being slow to notice the attacking potential of the bishop. :-p |
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Aug-28-08
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| chrisowen: Took me a while as I was jousting with the pair Rg4,Qd2,Nf6 and Nf6,gxf6,Rg4. So glad I mirrored the idea.
Yup, no two ways about it the most forcing is Nf6 threatening mate. |
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| Aug-28-08 |
| carelessfills: not relevant to the puzzle, but the final position is an intriguing zugswang and worthy of examination on its own accord |
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Aug-28-08
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| kevin86: Today's lesson must have been patience. In the gotd,white postponed the promotion of his pawn to simplify-at a cost. In this game,the failure to delay a move by one turn cost white the game. |
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| RoyalFlush: Wow I actually got this! |
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Aug-28-08
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| Strongest Force: I was about to pass over this until i noticed that my homeboy was the victim. :( |
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Aug-28-08
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| ClassZPlaya: What an emotional rollercoaster solving this was for me! First I looked at 32. Rg4 but couldn't find a good continuation for White after 32. ... d5. Then I found the interference intermezzo 32. Nf6! gxf6 33. Rg4! - winning in all variations. Then I checked the game, saw that white played 32. Rg4, and thought I might not have solved the puzzle. Plus I had missed black's better response 32. Rg4 Qd2! as played in the game. I solved the puzzle, but with only superficial analysis of the alternatives; not good. |
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| symmer17: I found Nf6! It could have been played 42. Nf6 for the win too! |
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| DarthStapler: I got the general idea but I chose Qxf6+ before Rg4 |
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Aug-28-08
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| Once: <MiCrooks> You are quite right. In my befuddled state I was trying to work out how white would respond to 32. ... Kg8, which is of course illegal because the Nf6 covers it. Message to self ... need to work on board vision ... |
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Aug-28-08
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| Jimfromprovidence: As an aside, 31...e5! would have been a clever, little move by black, stopping white's attack immediately.
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Aug-28-08
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| patzer2: For today's Thursday puzzle solution, White generates a mating attack against Black's weakened castled position with 32. Nf6! |
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| AniamL: This is a great puzzle. |
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| Aug-28-08 |
| akapovsky: why didnt luczak play Nf6 he obviously had to see it |
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| Aug-28-08 |
| simsan: I got this one, but after a different line of thought than most of the others have described. Realizing that my rook was under attack I wanted to move it, but I spent a lot of time making Rxe6 work. The idea being Bxf5 threatening mate. This, of course, doesn't work (for several reasons). Black just captures with the rook, which forces white to recapture with the queen (in order to avoid immediate backrank mate himself). While still intending to eventually play Rxe6, I discovered that Nf6 threatened # and could only be countered with gxf6. So far I only noticed that a black pawn on f6 would protect my queen from attacks along the 6th rank. This was the point at which I realized that the Rxe6 sac would never work (under any circumstance) and that the rook had to go elsewhere (I still liked the idea of beginning the sequence with Nf6) What about moving that R to the h or g file? In the h-file black still protects h6 with the bishop, and the g-file is protected by that troublesome f5 pawn... .. wait a minute... wasn't that the f5 pawn that prevented my queen and bishop from mating on h7?? Ta-da!! just have to chekc other potential black defences (like Be7). I like this. |
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| Aug-28-08 |
| akapovsky: I was aslo looking at Rxe6 but quickly realized it wouldn't work |
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Aug-28-08
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| YouRang: <carelessfills: not relevant to the puzzle, but the final position is an intriguing zugswang and worthy of examination on its own accord> It is an interesting position, although it's not really a "proper" zugzwang, since white is hosed in this position whether it's his turn to move or not. Basically, white is just in a jam. :-) |
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| Aug-28-08 |
| 456: Wednesday puzzle Aug-27-08 <36. ?> Vasiukov vs Taimanov, 1965 |
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Aug-28-08
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| johnlspouge: <<YouRang> wrote: [snip] It is an interesting position, although it's not really a "proper" zugzwang, since white is hosed in this position whether it's his turn to move or not. [snip]> What a great site this is! At the end of a hard day at the office, where else can you find <YouRang> carefully explaining the difference between "being in zugzwang" and "being hosed"? O Master, we are unworthy...
Love your posts :) |
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| Oregon104: Why couldn't White play 34. Nf6 or 35. Nf6 ? It seems like forced mate to me. |
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| Aug-28-08 |
| pastpawn: <Oregon104> 34  f6 fails to 34 ...  e3+ 35  h1 f2+ and now either 36  xf2 e1+ 37 f1 xf1# or 36 g1 h3+ 37 h1 g1+ 38 xg1 f2#.35 f6 is met by 35 ...  c5+ 36 h1 (or 36 f2 d1#) xf1#. |
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| Aug-28-08 |
| Hector Maluy: This is my solution.
32)Nf6 gxf6 33)Rg4 fxg4 and 34)Qh7++
On 32)..gxf6 black has to take the knight to avoid mate (33)Qh7++) and on 33)..fxg4 black has to take the rook to avoid mate (34)Qg8++) and if black moves bishop to e7 (33)..Be7), white can win with 34)Qg7++. "That's all she wrote." Time to check :) |
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Aug-29-08
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| YouRang: <johnlspouge><What a great site this is! At the end of a hard day at the office, where else can you find <YouRang> carefully explaining the difference between "being in zugzwang" and "being hosed"?> And as an extra added bonus, I informed everyone that "being hosed" is essentially the same as being "in a jam". I appreciate the appreciation. ;-) |
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