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| Sep-09-14 | | morfishine: Black threatens 37...Rd2 pinning the White Queen while his DSB dutifully covers <h8>, or does it? <37.Rh8+> anyways, and White wins due to 37...Bxh8 38.Qe8+ Kg7 39.Qxh8# or 37...Kg7 38.Qxe5+, etc., etc., ***** |
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| Sep-09-14 | | morfishine: <Poisonpawns> 36...Qa4??? 37.Qxe5 and White is a rook clear ***** |
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Sep-09-14
 | | Phony Benoni: <morfishine> After <36...Qa4 37.Qxe5>:
click for larger view<37...Qxa2+> forces <38.Kh3 Kxh7> and White has no discovered check with his king. He may be able to work out a perp somehow, but Black is no worse in any event. |
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| Sep-09-14 | | agb2002: White has a rook for a bishop and two pawns.
Black threatens 37... Rd2.
The bishop is hanging. However, 37.Qxe5 loses to 37... Rd2+. A better option is 37.Rh8+, to divert the bishop:
A) 37... Bxh8 38.Qe8+ Kg7 39.Qxh9#.
B) 37... Kg7 38.Qxe5+ f6 39.R1h7# or 39.Qe7#. |
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| Sep-09-14 | | Cybe: morfishine: <Poisonpawns> 36...Qa4??? 37.Qxe5 and White is a rook clear 36… Qa4! seems to be the only move. If 37. Q:e5, then 37… Q:a2+, 38. Kh3 (38. Kf1? – 38… Rd1+ and White Queen loosing her crown), 38… K:h7 and draw. |
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| Sep-09-14 | | Once: That's such a pretty picture that it deserves a diagram. 37. Rh8+ Bxh8 38. Qe8+ Kg7 39. Qxh8#
click for larger viewand all the major pieces are on the two long diagonals. Incidentally, Fritzie agrees with <Poisonpawns> and <phony>. 36...Qa4 would have saved the game for Shirov. But as this game was played at rapid time controls that would have been a difficult spot. Shirov's intention with 36...Qc3 was to protect his bishop by way of a discovered check: 37. Qxe5? Rd2+. That's fine in theory but it doesn't protect against 37. Rh8+ |
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| Sep-09-14 | | morfishine: <PB> oops |
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| Sep-09-14 | | QueentakesKing: 'Just can't teach an old dog new tricks'? |
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| Sep-09-14 | | patzer2: Today's Tuesday solution 37. Rh8+!, forcing mate-in-three with 37.Rh8+! Bxh8 (37...Kg7 38.Qxe5+ f6 39.R1h7#) 38.Qe8+ kg7 39.Qxh8#, is an excellent example of combining several tactics in a single move to force mate. In the line 37. Rh8+! Bxh8+ 38. Qe8+ Kg7 39. Qxh8#, the move 37. Rh8+! combines three tactics to force mate: 1. Deflection: Deflects the Bishop away from the e5 square. 2. Decoy: Forces ( or at least entices) the Bishop to the h8 square, unless Black wishes to succumb to the alternative mate (37...Kg7 38.Qxe5+ f6 39.R1h7#). 3. Clearance: Clears the e-file for the Queen's check on e8. By the way, great find by <Poinsonpawns> and others in pointing out the missed game saving opportunity 36...Qa4!! (diagram below). 
click for larger viewFrom here best play forces a draw. Fritz 12 finds one particularly amusing draw after 36... Qa4! 37. Qxe5 Qc2+! 38. Kh3 Kxh7 39.g4! Qf2 40. Qf6 Rd7 41. g5 (diagram below) 
click for larger view41...Kg8! 42. Rb1! Kh7! 43. Rh1! Kg8 44. Rb1 Kh7 45. Rh1 = (draw by three-fold repetition). |
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| Sep-09-14 | | Chess Dad: 37. Rh8+ Bxh8
38. Qe8+ Kg7
39. Qh8#
If 37... Kg7
38. Qxe5+ f6
39. Qe6# |
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| Sep-09-14 | | Chess Dad: Whoops, I meant 39. Qe7#. |
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Sep-09-14
 | | Penguincw: For some reason, I feel today's puzzle was easier than yesterday, although I didn't prepare myself in case black played 37...Kg7 (38.Qxe5+ f6 39.R1h7# 1-0 probably would've been good). |
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| Sep-09-14 | | zb2cr: Pretty straightforward. 37.Rh8+!
Now 2 short variations:
1. 37. ... Bxh8, 38. Qe8+, Kg7;
39. Qxh8#.
2. 37. ...Kg7; 38.Qxe5+, f6;
39.R1h7#. |
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| Sep-09-14 | | Oxspawn: Took me ages to see this. Like a man with vertigo peered over the edge of a high building, I was drawn obsessively towards the disaster that is
37. Qxe5 Rd2+ king moves followed by
38. Qxe5
I had already ‘eliminated’ Rh8 but now I returned to it and followed through37. Rh8 Bxh8 (if Kg7 then Qxe5+ leads to mate)
38. Qe8 Kg7
39. Qxh8# |
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| Sep-09-14 | | whiteshark: <37.Rh8+!>, and that's it. |
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Sep-09-14
 | | gawain: Ah, a rapid game. That explains a lot. |
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| Sep-09-14 | | Castleinthesky: Almost a "sight" problem-Tuesday builds me up, Wednesday breaks me down. |
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| Sep-09-14 | | kevin86: This one is a twist: this time a rook is sacrificed and the QUEEN mates on h8! |
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| Sep-09-14 | | rickycota: <Cheapo by the dozen> If 7. hxg4 hxg4 white has to give up the knight because of black threat Qh4. White ends up in a losing position. |
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| Sep-09-14 | | BOSTER: This is the pos. black to play 35...
click for larger view Black had three possibilities to take the bishop on d4.My guess that after 35...Bxd4 the game is draw.
If 36.Qxc4 Qb2+. |
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| Sep-09-14 | | alkinoos: The definition of a good Tuesday problem. Easy but not cliche. |
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| Sep-09-14 | | garrido: very easy, th8+ more De8 continuation mate |
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Sep-09-14
 | | Bubo bubo: The first move was easy, since White has to take drastic measures in view of Black's threat Rd2. But it took me some (too much!) time to spot that Bxh8 clears the e-file, enabling Qe8+. |
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| Sep-09-14 | | HowDoesTheHorsieMove: I got it, but embarrassingly I didn't see what was wrong with Qxe5. I just looked for something better and found Rh8. |
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| Sep-10-14 | | Once: <BOSTER> All three black recaptures on move 35 should be drawn with best play. This game was lost on the mistake 36...Qc3. |
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