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Jun-28-16
 | | Penguincw: Yay, Tuesday puzzle.
Pretty easy, though it did make me think a bit. Every move of black's has to be check, because white threatens mate on b8. So, 22...h4+, and well, apparently that's it. But it's a Tuesday puzzle, so let's try to solve the whole thing: 22...h4+ 23.Bxh4 Qf4+ (deflection move, as bishop is no longer guarding f4) 24.Kh3 Qxh4/Rxh4 # 0-1. |
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| Jun-28-16 | | agb2002: Black has three pawns for a rook and a bishop.
White threatens mate in three 23.Qc6+ Qd7 24.Qa8+ Qd8 (or 24... Qc8 25.Qxc8#) 25.Qxd8#. However, Black applies "Do unto others *before* they do unto you": 22... h4+ 23.Bxh4 Qf4+ 24.Kh3 Q(R)xh4#. |
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| Jun-28-16 | | stst: Essentially a smothered mate:
22......... h4+
23.Bxh4 Qf4
24.Kh3 Qxh4#
<=Mdy pod |
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| Jun-28-16 | | Viennablue: I assumed "...white to move" - which would be a monday puzzle 😄 |
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| Jun-28-16 | | AlicesKnight: Faced with danger Black must check; ....h4+ forces 23.Bxh4 but then 23.... Qf4+; 24.Kh3 Rxh4# does the job. 15.Qxb7 looks at first an interesting counter, but ...Rxc3 turns the tables beautifully, blowing open the white K to be chased. The hanging of both knights is also notable, allowing the BQ to close in. |
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| Jun-28-16 | | Cybe: 20. Ke4 leeds to draw. |
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| Jun-28-16 | | stacase: Black needs to say Check and there's a couple of ways to do it. One works better than the others. |
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| Jun-28-16 | | Swedish Logician: I did not see that it was Black's move and was pleased to find a forced mate for White in the given position.
1. Bb5+ axb5 (if 1. – Qd7 2. Qxd7 mate)
2. Qxb5+ Qd7
3. Qb8+ and Black has to interpose his queen on c8 or d8 in order to get mated on the next move. |
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| Jun-28-16 | | The Kings Domain: Embarrassingly took me a long time to solve the puzzle. Neat mate. Did white hate his king? |
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| Jun-28-16 | | saturn2: Mate in three starting with h4+ follwoed by Bxh4 Qf4+ Kh3 Qxh4++ |
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| Jun-28-16 | | cocker: Could have started combination from move 20, to make it a bit harder. As <Cybe> says, 20 Kxg4 was disastrous. |
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| Jun-28-16 | | morfishine: <22...h4+> forces mate |
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| Jun-28-16 | | mel gibson: amazing game -
black sacrifices a rook & 2 knights to get the win. |
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| Jun-28-16 | | Once: That's cute. White's Bg5 is overworked. It has to defend both h4 and f4. if black can force the bishop to do one of its two jobs it won't be able to do the other. It took a little bit of thinking to get the order right though. After 22...h4+ 23. Bxh4 we get to here: 
click for larger viewAt first I had a mental block, thinking that f4 was still protected. So I spent a short while trying to get 23...Rxh4 to work. Then I spotted 23...Qf4+ followed by 24. Kh3 and either 24...Rxh4# or 24...Qxh4# That's a rare bit of good news for these shores these days. |
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| Jun-28-16 | | njdanie: I thought the solution was 22. Qb5+ ab 23. Bxb5# and then realized it was Black to move first... |
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| Jun-28-16 | | YetAnotherAmateur: The end is obviously near for white. The king is exposed, with very few options. So let's look at forcing moves. And the most forcing move on the board is: 22. ... h4+
White has no choices after that:
23. Bxh4 Qf4+
24. Kh3 Rxh4# (or Qxh4#, but I think the rook looks better) |
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| Jun-28-16 | | kevin86: An easy forced mate in three- The white bishop is lured away and the queen can come to f4 and then to h4. |
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| Jun-28-16 | | YouRang: Coincidence? Both today's puzzle and yesterday's puzzle featured a poison black knight on g4, and in both cases, white ate it! Today, we can start with black's 19th move:
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Note that *Black* is on the verge of being mated (Bb5+! axb5, Qxb5+ ~#). Fortunately for black, he can draw by forcing perpetual check, starting with <19.Qxf2+!>
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This is where we see the poisoned Ng4.
If white declines the knight with 20.Ke4, then all black can do is repeat checking with 20...Qd4+ or 20...Qc2+, sending the K back to f3 which again requires ...Qf2+, and it will be a 3-fold draw. (Black can also try 20...d5, but this allows the K to escape to d3, making it much harder for Black to force the draw). But white got greedy, and opted to eat the knight <20.Kxg4?>, foolishly allowing black's rook to get into the game with check <20...h5+! 21.Kh3 (forced) Qf5+ 22.Kg3 (or Kh4 ...Qg4#) >, which gives us our black-to-move puzzle position:
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Black only had to play <22...h4+> for white to realize that he'd blundered the draw into a loss: <23.Bxh4 Qf4+ 24.Kh3 Rxh4#> |
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Jun-28-16
 | | gawain: The bishop must be decoyed with ...h4+. Mate soon follows. What the heck is White's king doing out there in front of his pawns? |
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Jun-28-16
| | gawain: I see. . . . What a wonderful combination starting with the offer of the rook 15 ...Rxc3. |
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Jun-28-16
| | gawain: Oh, but I now see that the combination is unsound. White draws by fleeing to the center of the board 20 Ke4. I should have looked more carefully at others' comments. One more thing. If B then tries too hard to win he loses instead. 20 Ke4 f5+ 21 Kd5 Qd4+ 22 Ke6 and Black has chased the White king to a perfectly safe place. Black will soon be mated. A pretty funny position.
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| Jun-28-16 | | Zhbugnoimt: What about 18.Kf3 ? |
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| Jun-28-16 | | morfishine: Some interesting positions here where, as usual, due to an "inaccurate" move, a player, this time White, could've improved', so there's a definite improvement; but this lets us "enjoy" the final position Shoulda, Woulda, Coulda...
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Jun-28-16
 | | Bubo bubo: Capturing the Bg5 does not work, since the white king then escapes to f2. The better way to get rid of that bishop is a decoy: 22...h4+ 23.Bxh4 Qf4+ 24.Kh3 Qxh4# |
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| Jun-28-16 | | YouRang: <Zhbugnoimt: What about 18.Kf3?> If 18.Kf3 (instead of 18.Kxe3), we have:
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First, remember that 18.Kxh3 prompted 18...Ng4+, creating a potential mating opportunity for white (white's DSB now hits d8 and e7, so Bb5+ is practically mate). So, if 18.Kf3, the N stays at f6 and white doesn't have the mate threat. This means black has the leisure of winning a piece with <18...Nxd1!>, because 19.Rhxf1 is met by Qf5+ winning the Bg5. |
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