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| Sep-20-06 | | greensfield: I looked at 43.Re5 and thought thats it.
43. Re5 Rg8 44. Qf6+ Rg7 45. Qxg7#
Is it? |
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| Sep-20-06 | | ForeverYoung: Nice interference move! |
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| Sep-20-06 | | jahhaj: 43.Re5 for me. I looked briefly at 43.Rd5 but can't think now why I rejected it since it is obviously winning. |
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| Sep-20-06 | | Microbe: Funny...I didn't manage yesterday's puzzle, but I found this one almost immediately. Taking the rook leads to mate, and ignoring it with moves like Bg6 loses the rook and the queen! Moving the queen doesn't help either as it takes the queen away from the e-file and the long diagonal! Beautiful. |
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| Sep-20-06 | | jahhaj: <ricochetrabbit... most spectacular move ever> The move you're thinking of is from Levitsky - Marshall and can be found here, http://www.xs4all.nl/~timkr/chess/f... which is a list of the top ten moves ever played. In my view Marshall's move is overrated. Admittedly it is spectacular but it isn't too hard to see. Would probably only be a Thursday puzzle on chessgames.com. Some of the other moves on that site are much better. Well worth a look. |
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| Sep-20-06 | | Soltari: I found this one quicker than last monday's. |
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| Sep-20-06 | | siilarsi: <al wazir: 43. Rd5 wins, but it isn't the only winning move.> No, but it is the correct move. Because it leads to the shortest path to mate. |
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| Sep-20-06 | | Zivildiener: as <greensfield> and <jmi>,
I went for Re5, which is as well, but after seeing the solution, I found the reason why it takes a little longer...
Re5 Bg6! (which loses of course, but hey - it lasts a move longer than after Re5 ;) ) |
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| Sep-20-06 | | EmperorAtahualpa: I did not see the interference and was simply going for 43.Qg5 Bg6 44.hxg6 which wins a piece. |
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| Sep-20-06 | | Kwesi: I'll give myself only partial credit because I only saw 43.Re5 |
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| Sep-20-06 | | Marmot PFL: didn't consider that move, though as others have noted white has other ways of winning. |
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| Sep-20-06 | | lopium: I think h6 wins too, same as Qxf7. Hard for a wednsday! |
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| Sep-20-06 | | Marmot PFL: White really opened with 1.e3? That's quite rare at GM level. |
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| Sep-20-06 | | flamboyant: didnt have to work hard for this one, i knew this position :) |
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| Sep-20-06 | | think: I guess this is a puzzle with many possible solutions, but one cool-looking solution. |
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Sep-20-06
 | | Peligroso Patzer: <Marmot PFL: White really opened with 1.e3? That's quite rare at GM level.>
The only other top-level game I can think of with 1. e3 is the following game from the St. Petersburg 1914 tournament Blackburne vs Nimzowitsch, 1914, which is included (even though Nimzowitsch lost!) as one of the supplemental games in the Appendix to My System. That game, as I recall, retained its original character, whereas this one transposed to a Queen's Gambit. By the way, does any one know in what year this Eliskases game was actually played? The main caption says 1931, but the date field in the scoresheet section reads: "9-??-1929". |
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| Sep-20-06 | | TopaLove: If you found Re5 you can´t claim you found the solution. Rd5 is much better. |
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Sep-20-06
 | | keypusher: Very pretty, as the rook can be taken four ways. |
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| Sep-20-06 | | lilfoohk: First sight got the answer
A much better result , used 20secs |
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| Sep-20-06 | | zb2cr: Saw the 43. Rd5 move in a short time, perhaps 20 seconds. |
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| Sep-20-06 | | YouRang: I found it fairly quick. The key points:
1. The black king is immobile, so any check that cannot be parried is mate. 2. Currently, the Black queen is stopping 2 mates (Qf6 and Qxd8). 3. The Black rook is also stopping 2 mates (Qe8 and Qf8). THEREFORE, if we can remove either the black queen or black rook, it will be mate. With this in mind, the winning move becomes apparent: Put our c5 rook between the black queen and rook! Neither piece can capture it since the deflection would allow mate. Neither can it be taken by the bishop or pawn as cuts off the rook's defender, allowing Qxd8#. Black is finished! He can only delay mate for a couple moves with checks. |
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| Sep-20-06 | | kevin86: In some ways this seems like a Monday puzzle-it involves a one move solution,and is a sacrifice. After seeing that the queen was overworked-forced to guard both f6 and d8,the correct move of Rd5 came like a shot. |
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| Sep-20-06 | | Sami Jr: What an artistic move. No matter what black takes rook with(bishop, rook or queen), the next move is a mate with 44. Qxd8 or 44. Qd6. Even if black chooses not to take rook, it's still mate. |
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| Sep-20-06 | | drnooo: The first move was easy, way too in fact, but the five or six behind it are the real toughies, almost like ones from Tal. They all come from the same combustion chamber of the open file and quick mate, but all the way Black is under heavy artillery fire scrambling from one shell hole to another. Very violent and beautiful. Now I have to look at Eliskases's other games. |
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| Sep-20-06 | | greensfield: <Zivildiener><it takes a little longer... Re5 Bg6!>
<YouRang><He can only delay mate for a couple moves with checks.> Can Black spin it out as follows
if 43.Rd5 Bg6 then 7 moves for mate
44. Qxd8+ Kg7 45. h6+ Kxh6 46. Qf8+ Qg7 47. Rh3+ Bh5 48. Rhxh5+ Kg6 49. Rhg5+ Kf6 50. Qd8# if 43.Re5 Bg6 then 10 moves for mate
44. hxg6 Qd1+ 45. Kh2 fxg6 46. Qf6+ Kg8 47. Rxg6+ hxg6 49. Qf6+ Ke8 50. Rxe6+ Kd7 51. Re7+ Kc8 52. Qxa6+ Kb8 53. Qb7# |
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