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| Nov-28-06 | | Infohunter: <Marmot PFL: Not so hard to find the combination but not sure how to catagorize it.> I'd call this "deflection": After 39...Qxh3+
A)40.gxh3, the Pawn is deflected from g2 to open the long diagonal, thus enabling 40...Rh1#. B)40.Kxh3, the King is deflected from the defense of h1, enabling 40...Rh1#. |
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Nov-28-06
 | | mahmoudkubba: I can see even if there is a win that it is with hard heavy sacrifice. Some really don't notice the heavy loosing sacrifying which might be needed to end a one game say from a whole whole match froma whole tournament. |
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| Nov-28-06 | | think: I am kind of embarrassed that I didn't find the obvious mate, but my line still wins, after Rh1, Qg3, and Qxh5 a fritz8 8 ply analysis gives -5.40, more than a rook up. |
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| Nov-28-06 | | McCool: Dang, I missed it! Is there a solution with Rh1+? |
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| Nov-28-06 | | 2021: <McCool> Don't worry, I miss easy puzzles too. |
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| Nov-28-06 | | think: <mccool> As I said in the post before yours, but maybe not clearly enough, 29. ... Rh1+ 30. Kxh1 Qxg3+ 31. Kg1 Qxh4
leaves black winning. |
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| Feb-06-23 | | Brenin: White threatens Qxh6 mate, so urgent action is required, and 39 ... Qxh3+ does the trick, with 40 Rh1 mate after either recapture. |
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| Feb-06-23 | | stacase: 39...Qxh3+ And White is finished. |
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| Feb-06-23 | | King.Arthur.Brazil: Hello, good Mondays! 39...Qxh3+ 40. any move, Rh1#. |
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| Feb-06-23 | | jrredfield: Since the mate is mentioned by several folks, I'm trying to see where White erred. Once blunder was 32 Rh3. 32 Nxg6+ would have kept things even. 32 Nxg6+ Qxg6 33 Qh4 Qg5 34 Qh2 Rd7 35 Rdf2 Kh7 36 Qh3 and Black can't make much progress. But White slipped up a bit even more in subsequent moves and never got back into contention. |
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| Feb-06-23 | | Mayankk: Happy Mondays are back. We have a Queen close to action and so sacrifice it. 39 ... Qxh3+ 40 Kxh3 Rh1# or 40 gxh3 Rh1#.
White shows a rather acute lack of danger awareness when it played 38 a5 and 39 Qxb6 after 37 ... c4 and 38 ... Rf1. Its position was grim anyways after the 37 ... c4 move as it cutoff the White Queen from defence of the f1 square. But still it seems strange. May be a time scramble when you have no time to assess opponent's plans and just go ahead with yours. |
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| Feb-06-23 | | Brenin: White's strategy in the last five moves was clear: create a passed a-pawn, luring Black's R from the f-file with 39 ... Ra1, then play 40 Qxh6+ Bh7 41 Qf6+ Rg7 (not 41 ... Qg7 42 Ng6 mate) 42 Rxd5, with an advantage of 3P and a strong counterattack. Unfortunately, Black had other ideas for his 39th move. |
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Feb-06-23
 | | An Englishman: Good Evening: More interesting than the combination--how Black unknotted his cramped position. After 8.0-0 White has an improved Colle Attack because his dark squared Bishop has a more active post (unlike, say, Opening Explorer). Notice how Black delayed castling until it became truly useful when he opened the f-file. |
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| Feb-06-23 | | Cheapo by the Dozen: Classic Monday: Heavy piece sacrifice on the h-file forcing a quick mate. Particularly nice in that, depending on how White recaptures, there are two different reasons why the same move can be mate. |
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| Feb-06-23 | | agb2002: Black has a bishop for a knight and a pawn.
White threatens Qxh6+.
The pawn on g2 blocks the action of the black bishop on h1 and the white king protects that square. Therefore, 39... Qxh3+ and 40... Rh1#. |
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| Feb-06-23 | | Timwestlund: I think it's quite silly to resign in such a position. You're not wasting anyone's time by playing one more move, and I think it's good sportsmanship to allow the mate in such positions. |
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| Feb-06-23 | | cocker: White declined a draw by repetition on move 30. |
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| Feb-06-23 | | TheaN: <39....Qxh3+ with 40....Rh1#>. Deflection type tactic where either the bishop's revealed to defend h1, or the king is pulled away from h1. |
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Feb-06-23
 | | chrisowen: Condor gluey mr puff its wait q Qxh3+ aileron ointment doh its axiom jug deadly boggle Qxh3+ faith; |
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| Feb-06-23 | | Once: <Timwestlund: I think it's quite silly to resign in such a position. You're not wasting anyone's time by playing one more move, and I think it's good sportsmanship to allow the mate in such positions.> Maybe. Maybe not.
There are two schools of thought here. One approach is to allow the mate if it is interesting. But some strong players would prefer to resign before mate as playing on could be seen as insulting to the other player. "I'm playing right until mate because my opponent might not have spotted it." Seeing a mate on the board is actually quite rare in modern chess. |
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| Feb-06-23 | | Damenlaeuferbauer: After long pondering, the strong Serbian IM Srdjan Cvetkovic finally found the mate in 2 moves with the nice queen sacrifice 39.-,Qxh3+! 40.Kxh3/gxh3,Rh1#. Nigel Short is one of the few GMs, who allows his opponents to checkmate him. |
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Feb-06-23
 | | takebackok: Good old, no think queen sack Monday, |
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Feb-06-23
 | | FSR: My first thought was 39...Rh1+ 40.Kxh1 Qxh3+ 41.Kg1 Qxh4. Then it occurred to me that 39...Qxh3+ (shades of Carlsen-Karjakin) was much more effective. |
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| Feb-06-23 | | Halldor: A slightly more to this puzzle than the traditional Monday. I at least used a few moments to find out if the g2 square could be attacked. — Then I saw the well-known checkmate pattern with Bishop on the long diagonal and Rook in the corner. Voilà! The solution was found! I can very well understand that White couldn't decide if he wanted mate after 40 gxh3 or 40 KxQ. So he resigned in the face of this dilemma! |
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Feb-06-23
 | | gawain: Pleasing finish, with the mate coming via 40...Rh1 no matter which defensive move White chooses. |
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