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| Oct-14-15 | | M.Hassan: Even material
White to play 24.?
24.Bxd5+
<if...Nxd5 25.Qxc4 and Black Queen is lost> 24.........Qxd5
25.Ne7+ Royal Fork |
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| Oct-14-15 | | diagonalley: 24.BxP+ ... a tuesday-level puzzle shurely(?!) |
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| Oct-14-15 | | popescuag: How about 24. Ra4? The Black queen seems to be trapped. |
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| Oct-14-15 | | Eduardo Leon: Not particularly hard to see: 24.♗xd5 removes the queen's defender with check, and, if 24...♕xd5 25.♘e7+, then black is royally forked. |
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| Oct-14-15 | | morfishine: <24.Bxd5+> ends it |
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| Oct-14-15 | | Moonwalker: Easier than yesterday's! Bxd5 and black's queen falls one way or another.. |
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| Oct-14-15 | | whiteshark: <24.Bxd5+!>, and that's it. My thought process started with 24.Ne7+ (to cover d5) followed by 25.Bxd5+ winning the ♕ thereafter, but the text move gives black less options... |
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| Oct-14-15 | | Oxspawn: Now this was a Tuesday puzzle.
24 Bd5+ Qxd5
25. Ne7+ forks the queen. White has queen for bishop and knight, which would end it. (I could still lose from there).
If black takes the bishop with the knight instead of the queen then simply
25. Qxc4 which is still worse for black.
Presumably, Goryachkina saw this coming a few moves earlier (on Monday). |
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| Oct-14-15 | | saturn2: Compliments to those, who saw it quickly. Me, it took me an eternity, only after having dealt with Qxf5 or QxQc4 (with the idea to push the pawn c pawn to queening) |
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| Oct-14-15 | | starry2013: Bxd5 Qxd5
Ne7 takes Queen
I saw the bishop check straight away, couldn't see it doing anything. Saw the knight check a little bit after, couldn't see that doing anything. Had the idea of combining and it worked. |
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| Oct-14-15 | | agb2002: The material is identical.
Black aims at the pawn on c5.
The knight on c6 leads to consider double attacks like 24.Bxd5+: A) 24... Qxd5 25.Ne7+ followed by 26.Nxd5 + - [Q+P vs B+N]. B) 24... Nxd5 25.Qxd5 + - [Q+P vs B]. |
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| Oct-14-15 | | patzer2: Today's Wednesday puzzle solution <24. Bxd5+!> is both simple and elegant. In one neat move, it combines at least four tactical themes: 1. Double attack, by way of a Bishop fork attacking the Queen and King. 2. Decoy, with a forcing move requiring the capture of the annoying Bishop. 3. Removing the guard, by eliminating the pawn protecting the Queen (e.g. 24...Nxd5 25. Qxc4  ). 4. Knight fork, making the Queen's capture of the Bishop a losing proposition (e.g. 24...Qxd5 25. Ne7+ ). For possible improvements for Black:
1. Instead of <4...Bd6> I prefer 4...Nf6 as in Aronian vs Ivanchuk, 2015. 2. Instead of <9...Bd7>, I prefer the popular 9...Nbd7 as in E Alekseev vs Radjabov, 1998 or the relatively untested Fritz suggestion 9...c5 =. Black's decisive mistake, according to Fritz, was <19...e5?> allowing 19. bxc6 bxc6 20. Nb4 (+2.25 @ 20 Depth, Deep Fritz 14). However, the Fritz alternative 19...Ne4 is not so pleasant, as Black is probably lost after 20. bxc6 bxc6 21. Ra6 Ndf6 22. Be1 Qb7 23. Qa4 Nd7 24. h3 e5 25. Qxc6 Qxc6 26. Rxc6 Ndxc5 27. Rc8 Na6 28. Nfxe5 (+1.97 @ 24 depth, Deep Fritz 14). |
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| Oct-14-15 | | geeker: <Gregor Samsa Mendel: I found this to be easier than yesterday's puzzle.>
Agreed. |
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| Oct-14-15 | | Caissas Clown: <popescuag: How about 24. Ra4? The Black queen seems to be trapped.> 24...Qxc2 |
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| Oct-14-15 | | garrido: bishop x pawn won the queen |
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| Oct-14-15 | | Halldor: Usually the pawn is a good defender but not here. |
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| Oct-14-15 | | kevin86: Three tactics in a stew! White removes the guard of the queen- forks queen and king- then will fork king and queen with the knight. |
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| Oct-14-15 | | yadasampati: <whiteshark> after 24.Ne7+ the king has to move, so 25.Bxd5 is not necessarily a check (unless the king moves to f7, which would of course be terrible) |
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| Oct-14-15 | | Lighthorse: I think they switched yesterday's and today's puzzles. Much easier today. |
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| Oct-14-15 | | mjmorri: I wonder if Black even considered 23...Qg4 or Qh5? |
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| Oct-14-15 | | gabriel25: <chrisowen> I have thought of asking others but i think I should ask you first. Your pieces or comments have an obvious intentionality of poetry but they feel to me too grainy both in meaning and in figures of speech. Also they dont seem to relate to the particular beauty of each game. Artists sometimes dont know how to explain their work, but I feel i am losing something in not understanding. Perhaps you can give a hint |
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| Oct-14-15 | | mikrohaus: White has reached the maximal piece placement. As WC Laker wrote over and over, a combination must exist. Serious players should find these combinations in their own games. As Lasker might say, "Black should not have trusted the defense of his queen to an insecure pawn" [In his example it was an insecure knight.] An easy puzzle, but it should be your bread and butter in your own games. |
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| Oct-14-15 | | reticulate: 24. Ne7 is probably good enough to win, but 24...Kh8 seems to stretch things out for a while. 24. Bxd5 is instantly lethal. |
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| Oct-14-15 | | ozu: I'm very proud to say, I got this very quickly :o) |
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