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| Dec-21-11 | | Eduardo Leon: 
click for larger view<23. xh6+ gxh6 24.g7+> The instinctive move would be 24. h7+??, but it leads nowhere. <24... g8 25. h7+!> The key move. Now white promotes with discovered check, which means the queen cannot be taken. <25...xh7 26.gxf8=+ g6 27.f7#> |
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| Dec-21-11 | | CHESSTTCAMPS: Black has 4 pawns for a piece and threatens Bxf2+ as well as cxb2. Both threats are paper tigers, because white has a forced mate: 23.Qxh6+! gxh6 24.g7+ Kg8 25.Bh7+! Kxh7 26.gxf8=Q+ Kg6 27.Qf7# I usually don't have problems with short forced mates, but today I was looking for Rh7# and therefore spent time on the candidate 23.Bb3?,threatening Qxh6+ followed by Rh7#. I'll leave it to other kibitzers to find best play in this line. |
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| Dec-21-11 | | njchess: 23. Qxh6+ ( Qh7++) gxh6 24. g7+ Kg8  25. Bh7+! Kxh7 26. gxf8=Q+ Kg6 27. Qf7++Unless White missed Bh7+, which I doubt, this should be the winning line. |
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Dec-21-11
 | | sethoflagos: <<Once:> .....There is one technique that helps. We absolutely must examine forcing lines.> It's a pity black didn't examine 10...Ng4 11.Re2 Bxf2+ 12.Rxf2 Ne3 13.Qe2 Nxc2 14.Rb1 Bxa2 15.b3 Bxb1 16.Nxb1 Na1 17.Qa2 Nxb3 18.Qxb3 b5 
click for larger viewWhite to play sans queenside defence |
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| Dec-21-11 | | CHESSTTCAMPS: I see that <Phony Benoni> has illustrated some of the complications I was exploring after 23.Qb3. |
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Dec-21-11
 | | kevin86: This one is quite easy-queen is sac-ed,regained,and delivers mate. Funny,there are TWO double checks,but both lose-the text is correct. |
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| Dec-21-11 | | Whitehat1963: Missed yesterday's but found this one almost instantly. |
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Dec-21-11
 | | Marmot PFL: In these puzzle positions queen sacs seem to work about 90% of the time, so that's always the first thing to look at. Here there is no need to look any farther, so i would rate it "easy". |
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| Dec-21-11 | | ThatsTriflin: Ugh, missed it. Didn't see the discovered check! |
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| Dec-21-11 | | doubledrooks: <Once>: Great to have you back! |
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| Dec-21-11 | | doubledrooks: White ends matters with 23. Qxh6+ gxh6 24. g7+ Kg8 25. Bh7+ Kxh7 26. gxf8=Q+ Kg6 27. Qf7# |
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| Dec-21-11 | | LIFE Master AJ: 23. QxP/h6+!! (Black must take, otherwise its mate.) I got waylaid for a few minutes, thinking that the next move was Rh7+. However, it soon became apparent that this was not going to work, Black simply plays ...d5, to block Bb3+, and White has nothing. 24. g7+!, Kg8; (Forced.)
And now the kicker, ...
25.Bh7+!,
and Black must take, when White takes on f8, promotes to a new Queen, (with check); and the rest is simple, I think is mate in just a couple of moves. (I think that I will save this one to a game collection, its pretty snazzy.) |
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| Dec-21-11 | | LIFE Master AJ: White's opening was inaccurate, 6...NxP/e4; would have probably equalized. (I know the theory of this system, you have to play d3 early on, to prevent just such a try.) |
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| Dec-21-11 | | BOSTER: Looking at <GOTD> <b4 is Too Late> automatically creates the reaction,but "a4" just on time, deflecting the queen.But,of course, this idea is wrong. Even the black has couple threats like Bxf2+,or cxb2 white has the forced line to win the game, and all black pieces on the queen's side only as spectators can see how their king swims to checkmate. 23.Qxh6+ gxh6
24.g7+ Kg8
25.Bh7+ in Marshall's style,but I don't like <swindels> strategy Kxh7
26.gxf8=Q+ Kg6
27.Rg7+ Kh5
28.Qf3+ Kh4
29.Qh3#.
Watching the game I saw 27.Qf7#.
Why I didn't see this? I completely forgot about g5 pawn. <Once> When you here, I'm in fighting mood , when you are absent -something is desappeared too. |
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| Dec-21-11 | | polarx: In response to the ones in favour of 23 Bb3:
23 Bb3 d5
24 Bxg5 Rf2
a) 25 Bxh6 Rf5
b) 25 Kh1 kinghunt
c) 25 Qxh6 White does not mate, Black's threatened discovered check is lethal. I think. Did not check everything to the smallest detail though. |
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| Dec-21-11 | | buster333: Once glad to see your back cg was missing something while you were gone |
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Dec-21-11
 | | ajk68: Ugh. Saw the line up to the bishop sac deflection, but missed the fact that the pawn can take the rook and promote at f8 - and not just promote at g8 (to subsequently be captured by the king). |
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Dec-21-11
 | | gawain: It looks like the only try that has any chance at all is 23 Qxh6+ gxh6 24 g7+. OK, then 24... Kg8 25 Bh7+ Kxh7 26 gxf8(Q)+. Then 26...Kg6 27 Qf7#. Did I miss anything? |
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| Dec-21-11 | | Nullifidian: Mate in 5:
23. xh6+  gxh6 24. g7+ g8 25. h7+ xh7 26. gxf8=+ g6 27. f7# with a dovetail mate. |
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| Dec-21-11 | | Penguincw: Missed it completely. |
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| Dec-21-11 | | galdur: 22. Re7 set up the mating combination, which black missed but after 22...Rfe8 there would have been something left for black.
click for larger viewHe´s a piece down for two pawns and prospects of a third one in white´s weak queen side. What to do with the white rook? Black is certainly worse but still it would require some technique to bring him down. I know, computers wrap this up easily but between humans over the board it´s not that simple. |
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| Dec-21-11 | | stacase: What a romp, that was great! I love that middle of the board mating net with the King's own pieces blocking his escape. |
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Dec-21-11
 | | chrisowen: Go in e5 hat terrif chi laminate:
In ego for as high as Druklec get 2616 I think again queen Dropping h6.
Nuisance in dam rook mad reunited absolute proof:
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And Sonny blunder bus: |
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| Dec-21-11 | | vanytchouck: Instinctively, i've looked for Qxg6 + (because 99.9999 % of puzzles starts with this kind of moves). My first idea was Rh7 + and Bb3+ when i realized that it just looses a bishop ... Then i saw g7+, Bh7+ and gxf7=Q + but somehow i didn't see at once that it was working as i didn't see that Kh8 was forbidden. After some seconds, i've seen that Kxh7 is a forced move. |
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| Dec-21-11 | | stst: Easy mating net after a few strokes:
23.Qxh6+ gxh6 (forced)
24.g7+ Kg8
25.Bh7+ Kxh7
26.gxf8 dis+ & P=Q, Kg6 <can resign at this point.>
27.Re6+ Kh5 (variations from this point)
28.Qf3+ Kh4
29.g3+ Kh3
30.Rxh6# |
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