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| Jan-25-11 | | paavoh: Those pawns just kept coming at Black, eh?
Award for the best game of the round was deserved. |
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| Jul-02-15 | | Fish55: It's a forced mate after 31.Be6, Re6 32.Rf8. I didn't expect black to play it out to the very end. |
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| Jul-02-15 | | raviarun: Immediately saw Bxe6 Rxe6,Rf8 etc. Surely the easiest Thursday in a long time! |
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| Jul-02-15 | | Cheapo by the Dozen: Presumably I'm overlooking something, because this seems very straightforward to me. 31 Bxe6 Rxe6
32 Rf8+ Bxf8
33 Rxf8+ Kg8
34 Rg8#
or
31 Bxe6 Bxh6
32 Bxh6 Rxe6
33 Rf8#
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Edit: Looks like I wasn't overlooking anything after all. Remarkably easy Thursday. |
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| Jul-02-15 | | M.Hassan: "Medium"
White to play 31.?
Sides are dead equal
There is promising attack through f8 square guarded by Bishop, Rook and Knight. Eliminating the Knight, eliminated one guard: 31.Bxe6!
A)
31...........Rxe6
32.Rf8+ Bxf8
33.Rxf8+ Kg7
34.Rg8#
B)
31...........Bxh6
32.Bxh6 Rxe6
33.Rf8#
C)
31..........Rc7
32.Bxc8 Rexc8
33.Nf7+ Kg8
34.Nxd6
White is now a Knight+pawn up and looks like this is the only line that Black can continue playing with lesser ammunition. |
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| Jul-02-15 | | agb2002: White has an extra pawn.
Black threatens 31... Nxg5 32.Bxd7 Bxd7.
White can weaken Black's back rank with 31.Bxe6:
A) 31... Rxe6 32.Rf8+ Bxf8 33.Rxf8+ Kg7 34.Rg8#.
B) 31... Bxh6 32.Bxh6 Rdd8 (32... Rxe6 33.Rf8#) 33.Bxc8 Rxc8 34.Rf8+ Rxf8 35.Rxf8+ Rxf8 36.g7+ wins. |
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| Jul-02-15 | | erimiro1: A very good deal: 31. B:e6 is getting rid of the knight and the rook in one move. The way for 32.Rf8+ is open, and 31.-B:h6 can't help. |
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Jul-02-15
 | | An Englishman: Good Evening: Easy, but a very attractive mating pattern at the end. |
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| Jul-02-15 | | Once: Easiest one this week, I think. Distract the defenders and then round the king up for a mate. It's a little bit funny (this feeling inside) that the white g6 pawn starts out undefended, but in the final position is secured by the xray rook on g8. |
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| Jul-02-15 | | gofer: Black has a weak back rank, so all we need to do is force black to remove one of the defenders of f8, so that Rf8 works... 31 Bxe6 ...
This removes one immediately and threatens to remove the second - winning immediately 31 ... Rxe6
32 Rf8+ Bxf8
33 Rxf8+ Kg7
34 Rg7#
So black must find a way to recover the piece loss!
31 ... Bxh6
32 Bxh6 Rg8
33 Rf8 Rdg7
34 Bxg8 
This looks very unwise...
31 ... Rde7
32 Bxc8
Hmmm, all looks pretty simple. What have I missed???
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Ahhh, it was simple! A nice gentle Thursday! |
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| Jul-02-15 | | pedro99: Yes, a star and a half at most. |
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| Jul-02-15 | | Oxspawn: I saw 31. Bxe6 but assumed that black would not retake with the rook since that is clearly a back rank disaster but instead opt go a piece down after
31. Bxe6 Bxh6
32. Bxd7 Bxd7
33. Bxh6…..
But perhaps white has something stronger
31. Bxe6 Bxh6
32. Bxf6 Bg7
33. Nf7+?…
It gets too complicated for me. Surely black has a better alternative than meekly submitting to what seems a fairly straightforward mate? |
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| Jul-02-15 | | Shoukhath007: good puzzle its medium perfect puzzle.
Watch the video try to solve another funny puzzle.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mcmtC... |
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| Jul-02-15 | | CHESSTTCAMPS: White has an extra pawn on g6 that is a monster - it controls key squares near black's king and allows white to play for a fast mate. Black threatens Nxg5, but white can simply remove this defender. 31.Bxe6 Rxe6 (Bxh6 32.Bxd7 leaves white a rook ahead) 32.Rf8+ Bxf8 33.Rxf8+ Kg7 34.Rg8# |
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| Jul-02-15 | | morfishine: <31.Bxe6> followed by the Rook-Knight mating theme: 31...Rxe6 32.Rf8+ Bxf8 33.Rxf8+ Kg7 34.Rg8# One need only calculate Black cannot interpolate at move 31, for example, 31...Bxh6 fails to 32.Bxd7 ***** |
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| Jul-02-15 | | wooden nickel: 31.Bxe6 and it's all forced... this must be a case of indecent exposure?!
I also tried utilizing the open h-file:
31.Rh2 Nxg5 32.Nf7+ Kg8 33.Bxd7 Bxd7 34.Nxg5 Rf8 35.Rf7 Rxf7 36.gxf7+ Kf8 37.Rf2 Ke7
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| Jul-02-15 | | stacase: Seeing mate four moves off ... well, that was fun. |
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| Jul-02-15 | | patzer2: Here's a look at the game and the Thursday puzzle (31. ?) with the cchessgames.com Opening Explorer (OE) and Deep Fritz 14: <1. e4 d6 2. d4 Nf6 3. Nc3 g6 4. g3> More popular here against the Pirc are 4.Nf3, 4. f4 and 4. Be3. However, this quiet approach with 4. g3 can give White a strong attacking initative. According to the chessgames.com OE data base, White won 33.9% and Black won 27.3% of 433 games played with 4. g3. <4...Bg7 5. Bg2 O-O 6. Nge2 e5 7. h3 c6 8. a4 a5 9. O-O Na6 10. Be3 Nb4 11. f4 Qc7> Not a fan of 11...Qc7, as it seems too passive against White's Kingside attacking plan. Fritz says it's level, but the two games with it in the OE both resulted in a loss for Black. Black has had better results with 11... exf4 which was good for a draw in E Alekseev vs Ivanchuk, 2003, 11... Nh5 which was good for a Black win in S Yudin vs P Smirnov, 2008 and 11... Be6 which won for Black in Rozentalis vs Nijboer, 2014. <12. g4 b6 13. f5 Nd7 14. d5 Ba6 15. dxc6 Qxc6 16. g5 f6 17. h4 Nc5 18. Rf2 Rad8 19. Ng3!> The move 19. Ng3! gives White a strong near winning attack. <19...Qe8>
If 19... Qd7, then 20. fxg6 hxg6 21. h5 fxg5 22. hxg6 Rxf2 23. Bxf2 Bc4 24. Nf5 Bf6 25. Qh5 Nxc2 26. Rd1! (+6.00 @ 20 depth). <20. h5 Bc8>
If 20... fxg5, then 21. Bxg5 Rd7 22. hxg6 hxg6 23. Nd5 Nxd5 24. Qxd5+ Qf7 25. fxg6 Qxd5 26. exd5 e4 27. Rxf8+ Kxf8 28. Bh3 Rb7 29. Re1 (+2.02 @ 20 depth). <21. hxg6!> According to Fritz, White is clearly winning after this move 21. hxg6! (+2.02 @ 21 depth). <21...hxg6 22. gxf6 Bxf6 23. Qg4 Bg7 24. Raf1 Qf7 25. Qg5 Qf6 26. fxg6 Qxg5 27. Bxg5 Rd7> If 27... Rxf2, then 28. Rxf2 Rf8 29. Nf5 Be6 30. Be7 (+2.79 @ 20 depth). <28. Nf5 Re8 29. Bh3 Ne6 30. Nh6+ Kh8> If 30... Bxh6, then 31. Bxh6 Rdd8 32. Bxe6+ Bxe6 33. Nb5 Nc6 34. Nxd6! (+13.13 @ 20 depth) <31. Bxe6!> This solves our Thursday puzzle. <31...Rxe6> Now White has mate-in-three. If 31...Ra7, 32. Nf7+ (+17.24 @ 20 depth) wins easily. <32. Rf8+ Bxf8 33. Rxf8+ Kg7 34. Rg8#> 1-0 |
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Jul-02-15
 | | Penguincw: Hmm, today's Thursday, right (believe it or not, I'm actually starting to lose track of what day of the week it is in real life as well, mostly since yesterday was a holiday)? The difficulty level says "Medium/Difficult", which is approx. a Thursday level (so it's not like it's a Monday puzzle on Sunday). I tried 31.Bxe6 Rxe6 32.Rf8+ Bxf8 33.Rxf8+ Kg7 34.Rg8# 1-0, and that was the solution. This week, I'm like 3.5/4, which is the best ever (yesterday I got 29.Nxf6+ Rxf6 30.Bxf6 Qxf6 31.Qb8+ Kg7 32.Qxb7, leaving white with a knight and 2 pawns vs. bishop, which is winning, but not as quick as 29.Nxf6+ Rxf6 30.Nd5). |
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| Jul-02-15 | | Karne: <Penguincw: This week, I'm like 3.5/4, which is the best ever.....> You're such a generous man, with courteousness sprinkled all over your fruitful mind, and from the deepest depth of my heart, I hate to break it down to you that your streak will reach a dead-end on Saturday or perhaps if the Gods are in a humanitarian mood, then on Sunday. |
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| Jul-02-15 | | thickhead: <agb2002>Even without 3.Bxd8 white wins.
1...Bxh6 2.Bxh6 Rdd8 3.Rf8+ Rxf8 4.Rxf8+ Rxf8 5.g7+ Kh7 6.gxf8=Q Kg6 7.Qg7+ Kh5 8.Qg5# |
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| Jul-02-15 | | dfcx: White has an extra passed pawn corners the black king. The first thing I saw was Rf8+, but it's guarded by 3 pieces. White can start with 31.Bxe6 removing two defenders with one move if black takes the bishop. 31.Bxe6 Rxe6? 32.Rf8+ Bxf8 33.Rxf8+ Kg7 34.Rg8#
Black loses at least one piece. |
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| Jul-02-15 | | Strelets: Good attacking chess is all about isolating the other side's key defensive pieces and neutralizing them. Black's knight on e6 is so important to his position that having it captured leads to the unenviable scenario of either being forced to resign by excess loss of material or checkmated in three moves by an unusual mating net of rook, knight, pawn, and bishop. |
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| Jul-02-15 | | kevin86: Easy today. White picks up a knight and if black retakes, a forced mate will follow- in the spirit of the Arabian Mate. |
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| Jul-02-15 | | davidseven: Why not 31.Bxe6 Rc3, which holds the back rank for black? Black could have played it out further. |
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