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| Nov-09-15 | | M.Hassan: It's a Rook sac for this Monday
38.Rh8+ Kxh8(forced)
39.Qh6+ Kg8
40.Qg7# thanks to f6 pawn |
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| Nov-09-15 | | patzer2: Black's decisive mistake is 33...e5?
Instead, 33. exf6 holds as play might continue 34. Rxd6 Qxe4 35. Qxf6 Kh7 36. Rd8 Rxd8 37. Rxd8 Qe1+ 38. Kb2 Qb4+ 39. Kc1 Qe1+ 40. Rd1 Qb4 41. Rd8 Qe1+ = with a draw by perpetual. |
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| Nov-09-15 | | saturn2: It took me half a minute to find the solution. I had to falsify 38 Qh6 first. |
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| Nov-09-15 | | patzer2: <sfm> Your 38. Qg5?? Qxg5 39. Kb2 Kh6?? 40. Rh8# is an amusing three-move helpmate. Another possibility is 38. Qh6+?? Kxh6 39. Kb2 Qg5?? 40. Rh8#. |
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| Nov-09-15 | | patzer2: Just prior to today's easy Monday mate-in-three, White made a mistake with 37. Qd2? as 37...g5 = (0.00 @ 25 depth, Deep Fritz 14) lets Black off the hook. Instead, 37. Qb4! g5 38. Rh8+ Kg6 39. Rg8+ Kxf6 40. Qd6+ Kf5 41. Rxg5+
Kf4 42. Qf6+ Ke3 43. Rxe5  (+11.92 @ 20 depth, Deep Fritz 14) secures the win. Unfortunately Black overlooked 37...g5 = and blundered with 37...Qxh4??, allowing 38. Rh8+ Kxh8 39. Qh6+ Kg8 40. Qg7#. |
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| Nov-09-15 | | morfishine: Its mate in 3 starting with <38.Rh8+> |
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Nov-09-15
 | | Check It Out: <morf> knowing how you love puns I think we should come up with them for the POTD. I elect "Chitty Chitty bang bang" for this one. |
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| Nov-09-15 | | jith1207: Black went on a pawn grabbing mission, thinking his King is well hidden behind the three pawns. Alas, Chess has something called Diagonals. |
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| Nov-09-15 | | Cheapo by the Dozen: Nice one. |
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| Nov-09-15 | | Caissas Clown: <Phony Benoni: This being Monday, 38.Qh6+ was the first move that came to mind. Alas, it is sadly premature. Be patient. Its time will come.> Humbly - for in chess , I have much reason to be humble -I offer a (mildly) interesting combination of patzer psychology and Tarrasch's "amaurosis scacchistica". My first thought was Qh6 check. Why ? Because it's been a hot day here , I am very tired - and it is Monday. Well,that's my three excuses,anyway ! Convinced it was the correct move , I still paused - because I saw it was move 38 and White could , conceivably , be in time trouble. If it was me , I'd DEFINITELY be in time trouble by then !
And nobody wants to play a bad move so close to reaching move 40 , do they ? That is why some of us will choose a sub-optimal,yet completely 'safe' move, when nearing the TC. Accordingly,if I was White in this game,I would surely have found the correct 38.Rh8 check , whilst half-expecting someone to point out later that Qh6 mates one move earlier.
Of course , a good player would look at Qh6 , but reject it at once as blunder. I was ninety-nine per cent sure that Qh6 was winning(oops!), but 100 per cent sure that Rh8 was, too.
So I would have found and played the correct move , not due to my ability , but because of my innate caution. The frequency of games at the top level means that GMs making blunders normally have a chance to redeem themselves in a day or two. But we amateurs ? Who wants to stew over a ??? move for a whole week , until the next club night ?! |
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Nov-09-15
 | | Sally Simpson: 
click for larger viewPut a White Knight on h3 or f3 then Qh6+ would work. |
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| Nov-09-15 | | Chess Dad: Being a Monday, I of course spent about a minute or two looking at Qh6+ as the likely first move. But I couldn't find the finish, so I figured that wasn't it. But then I saw Rh8+ as a candidate. My first inclination was to follow that with Qd8+ Kh7 Qf8 and be one move away from checkmate. But that fails to Qxf6 at the very least, or worse, some sort of checkmate sequence with the black Q & B. (I don't see an immediate threat, so perhaps Qxf6 would be the best response to Qf8.) So, I chased the rabbit down two different holes before finally seeing the 100% forcing, no questions asked mate in 3. So, now I just need to figure out how I could possibly consider Qh6+ first, but then overlook it as the 2nd move of the sequence after seeing Rh8+. I think I have a hard time visualizing the "new" position after a decoy sacrifice. |
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| Nov-09-15 | | Mating Net: A beautiful cubby hole on g7, supported by the powerful pawn f6, makes finding the winning moves a low stress exercise for the tactically inclined. |
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| Nov-09-15 | | varishnakov: Black king guards front door. White rook enters home through the rear. Black king captures rook, distracted from his guard duty. White queen barges through front door, and before he knows it black king is mated. |
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| Nov-09-15 | | kevin86: Mate in three: decoy and then mate by the queen. Don't sac the queen as the king will escape on g5. |
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| Nov-09-15 | | stacase:
Wham Bam!
But you know what? I bet over the board I would have moved 39.Qd8 instead of the killer move, 39.Qh5. But since it was a puzzle, I got it. |
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| Nov-09-15 | | consul: Tricky Monday! :D |
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Nov-09-15
 | | gawain: So few candidates for White's move. There are only two forcing moves available. Yet it took me a minute or two to convince myself that Rh8+ followed by Qh6+ actually works. |
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| Nov-09-15 | | BOSTER: Let's start by jumping into the game one move earlier before POTD pos, or more exactly before PB' advice< Be patient>.
This means that the player
with black pieces couln't read this inf.
Let's read his thoughts.
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Because before white played Qd2, the Q. was: Why, what's for? He wants to play Qh6+ Kxh6 and Rh8#.
Who like to see the reversed move order?
And very logical Qxh4 was played. |
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| Nov-09-15 | | Oxspawn: The black queen plans to dispatch the advanced white pawn but there is no time. The king must turn and deal with rook on h8, then run to g8 to escape where it is pinned by the queen on g7. Three moves and the black queen can only watch. |
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Nov-09-15
 | | paulalbert: Anybody who went for 38. Qh6+ got suckered by a Chessgames Monday curveball and struck out. |
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| Nov-09-15 | | TheFocus: Nice and easy; just like Monday should be. |
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Nov-09-15
 | | Bubo bubo: 38.Rh8+ lures the king away from defending h6, with mate after 38...Kxh8 39.Qh6+ Kg8 40.Qg7# |
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| Nov-09-15 | | dark.horse: rook sac monday |
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| Nov-09-15 | | MindCtrol9: May be 2 seconds to see that |
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