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| Jan-04-16 | | stst: Missed the Insane, welcome EZ2016
37.Re8+ Rc8
38.Qc7#
Black's R cannot guard two pieces in different directions at the same time. Note: both Qb7 or Qd7 are guarded by the N. |
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| Jan-04-16 | | agb2002: White has a rook and two pawns for two knights.
White can win with the obvious 37.dxc6 or by delivering mate in two with 37.Re8+ Rc8 38.Qc7#. |
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| Jan-04-16 | | ndg2: Sites like chesstempo will penalize you if you don't find the absolutely shortest mate (there are a couple of longer ones): 37.Re8+ Rc8 38.Qc7# |
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| Jan-04-16 | | Olsonist: It's a Monday and this was the 'depth' of my thinking.
Patzer see check. Patzer gives check.
37. Re8+
Only move. Does simplify my calculations.
37. ... Rc8
Mate in one. Hmmm.
38. Qc7# |
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| Jan-04-16 | | patzer2: Easy Monday mate-in-two or mate-in-three starting with 37. Re8+  . For an improvement, Black should dismiss 3...g6? allowing 4. d4  and instead go for 3...Nf6 =, 3...Nc6 or 3...Be7=. Also instead of the 2...d6 Philidor, I prefer 2...Nf6 inviting the Two knights Defense. |
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| Jan-04-16 | | morfishine: The Ole one-two: <37.Re8+> forcing 37...Rc8 and now that the Black rook is conveniently pinned, White finishes with <38.Qc7#> ***** |
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| Jan-04-16 | | raju17: Straight pxc6!
There is no defence and mate next move, except if blace just burns resources. |
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| Jan-04-16 | | sfm: Ouch, Black did not get well from start.
It becomes a Philidor, about which Larsen once wrote: "An opening you have to know well to avoid the many pitfalls - and you may still get a squeezed position that only few will like." In any case, 3.-,g6 looks like a mistake. There are only 2 games in the database after 4.-,exd, in the other White played the unimpressive 5.Qxd4 and it ended in a draw. The move played here looks much more promising. Interesting how effective White can exploits the f6-weakness, but of course 9.-,Qe7?? was a great help. After 11.Bd2 it looks like it is a bit hopeless already, Black is seriously behind in development with a misplaced knight on h6 and again that f6-thing. |
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| Jan-04-16 | | Sularus: rook checks, then queen mates. love the one star! |
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| Jan-04-16 | | thegoodanarchist: <Penguincw: First Monday puzzle of the year. .. I got 2 slower ones (but still work).
One is 37.Ra8+ Kxa8 38.Re8+ Rc8 39.Rxc8# >
I got this solution as well. I don't think a Monday puzzle should have multiple solutions. |
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| Jan-04-16 | | saturn2: I find the puzzles easiest where every move is a check since somehow I cannot resist but look for a checks first. So it was only a question of seconds this time. Black can answer the first check Re8+ by interposing its own rock but after Qc7+ he is left without any answer. |
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Jan-04-16
 | | Sally Simpson: "I don't think a Monday puzzle should have multiple solutions." Of course it should. Then we get to discuss/argue which mate is better and which is the most atheistically pleasing. The 37.Re8+ crowd will be telling the 37.Ra8+ mob one should sit on their hands till they find a better move. The 37.Ra8+ lads will claim it's better to finish with a flourish and play to the crowd. The materialistic bunch will claim 37.dxc6 is correct (that too mates). Eventually Tempers will flare, insults hurled and long forged friendship burned. That would have been the perfect start to 2016.
I bet Chris Owen will have a few choice words to say about this game. (I'm a 37.Ra8+ man - Mondays are Sac-Somethingdays.) |
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Jan-04-16
 | | Willber G: The quickest mate is required to solve the puzzle, natch. Bad start to the week for you Rxa8 boys, you've got some catching up to do. ;-) |
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| Jan-04-16 | | YetAnotherAmateur: <Sally Simpson> For what it's worth, I went with 37. Re8+, because why do something complex and difficult when something simple and easy works just fine? My argument against 37. dxc6 is that it allows black to extend the game with 37. ... Qa2+ 38. Kxa2 Nd7, which makes it less elegant a solution. |
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| Jan-04-16 | | Chess Dad: I got the mate-in-two.
I would argue that any of the forced mate-in-threes would count for points, but I don't like dxc6 as a solution. Yes, dxc6 is winning, but only because Black's position is so hopelessly bad. But there are just too many ways for Black to give spite checks or uselessly give away material to delay mate by one move for each piece thrown away. |
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| Jan-04-16 | | kevin86: I saw this one quickly; White forces the rook to pin itself, then takes advantage to mate with the queen. |
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| Jan-04-16 | | jith1207: Black's game looks like walking through a Live minefield, exploding one after another. The entire chessboard must have looked like a MineSweeper game every single block. I love the nonchalant King move to b1. That avoids any check by opponent Knight, pinning against the queen in the final few positions but the whole game has bags of tactics all around and is instructive. |
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| Jan-04-16 | | jith1207: When I go through some of the old games, I have seen a lot of comments from the SAME Chris Owen written in perfect English. That makes me believe that he was all right at some point of time, then he was occupied by many of the great Chess legends' spirits and started talking in foreign languages (foreign to mankind!). Who knows, That might be the conversation between Bobby Fischer and Paul Morphy, interpreted in simple language(?!) by CO for CG fans! |
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| Jan-04-16 | | stst: <That makes me believe that he was all right at some point of time, then he was occupied by many of the great Chess legends' spirits and started talking in foreign languages (foreign to mankind!). Who knows, That might be the conversation between Bobby Fischer and Paul Morphy, interpreted in simple language(?!) by CO for CG fans!
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Is it a tweet/treat for CG fans!?! or a test?
Only CG can decide!! |
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| Jan-04-16 | | ZUGZWANG67: That's mate in 2: 37.Re8+ Rc8 38.Qc7#. |
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| Jan-04-16 | | minasina: This should have been puzzle starting from move <35. White to play>. |
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| Jan-04-16 | | paavoh: Saw the simple Re8 check, Qc7 mate and did not bother with anything else. |
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| Jan-04-16 | | morfishine: <Sally Simpson> On this comment: <"I don't think a Monday puzzle should have multiple solutions." Of course it should> And of course you are right: stimulating the imagination is what its all about, right? Even if its on Monday... ***** |
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| Jan-04-16 | | cunctatorg: Grrrrhhh....; 37. Ra8 Kxa8 38. Re8 Rc8 39. Rxc8# is also fine and furthermore the aforementioned variation exhibits a rook sacrifice... lol |
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Jan-04-16
| | Sally Simpson: I asked Alan why he did not play 37.Ra8+ he just said he is pleased he made the puzzle page and at last he has arrived. Huh!
Hi jith1207: "Black's game looks like walking through a Live minefield, exploding one after another." I went through the other games Black played in this tournament. This was a round one game. He did not have too happy a time. P.10 w1.d2 L7. Sadly C.G. does not have his sole win v Klaus Kuenitz.
It does however have this game ending in a draw.
K Berggren vs L Colompar, 2013
Final position. White to play.
click for larger viewBlack is winning
The official site also gives a draw. I think I may have worked out what happened and it will go there to see if it makes sense. There is also:
B Williamson vs L Colompar, 2013
Where our lad was a healthy piece up and coasting to a win but went astray in the 'do or die' complications when he allowed White to mix it up. |
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