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Lisa Schut vs Nezihe Ezgi Menzi
European Team Championship (Women) (2009), Novi Sad SRB, rd 4, Oct-25
Sicilian Defense: Dragon Variation. Yugoslav Attack Modern Line (B76)  ·  1-0

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Oct-22-24  Mayankk: Black King is being harrassed by White heavyweights and it is time to go for the kill.

26 Rf5+ and now Black needs to choose between a quick loss or a slow one.

A) 26 ... Kg7 27 Qh7#

B) 26 ... gxf5 27 Qxf5+ Kg7 28 Rh7#

C) 26 ... Ke6 27 Rf8+ Ke5 28 Rxg8. White is up a Rook and it just needs to cross-check there is no risk of perpetual.

There should likely be a quicker win in line C above.

Oct-22-24
Premium Chessgames Member
  takebackok: Yes easy 26. Rf5+ Ke6 27. Rf8+ Ke5 28. Qg3+ Ke6 29. Qg4+ Ke5 30. Rh5+ gxh5 31. Qf5#
Oct-22-24  latebishop: 27...Ke5 28.Qg3+ Ke6 29. Qg4+ Ke5 30. Rh5+ gxh5 31.Qf5#
Oct-22-24  mel gibson: I saw that after about 10 seconds.

Stockfish 17 says mate in 5:

26. Rf5+

(26. Rf5+ (1.Rf5+ Ke6 2.Rf8+ Ke5 3.f4+ Kxe4 4.Qg2+ Ke3 5.Rh3+) +M5/245 2)

Oct-22-24  stacase: Over the board I would have moved 26. Rf5+ and I would be very happy to accept Black's resignation. What do those aphorisms say when you post? Oh yeah, "The hardest game to win is the won game." OK not that difficult, but it could drag on for a while:

26. Rf5+ Ke6
27. Rf8+ Ke5
28. Qg3+ Ke6
29. Qg4+ Ke5
30. Qf4+ Ke6
31. Qg4+ Ke5
32. f4+ Kxe4
33. Qe6+ Kf3
34. Qe2+ Kg3
35. Rg1+ Kh3
36. Qg2+ Kh4
37. Qg4#

Probably could be done faster but saying check each step of the way keeps Black's Rook & Queen sidelined through the whole ordeal. Trying to get Whites Rook in that SE corner into the party and trying to keep Black's King from bolting through that gate to the NW corner was problematic.

Oct-22-24
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  Teyss: If you need to find the best continuation after 26...Ke6, a wee bit difficult for a Tuesday. It's revealing that good kibitzers like <Mayankk> and <stacase> didn't find it (I didn't either, grabbed the Rook like Mayankk).

All moves are forced so I should have looked further: 26...Ke6 27.Rf8+ (nowhere else) Ke5 28.f4+ Kxe4 29.Qg2+ Kd3 or Ke3 30. Rh3# which is one move faster than <latebishop>'s line.

But since it's Tuesday we can consider the above lines as solves.

Oct-22-24  TheaN: Pretty straightforward first move in <26.Rf5+!>, considering Black can't run: 26....Kg7 27.Qh7#, nor take: 26....gxf5 27.Qxf5+ Kg7 28.Rh7#, so he's forced to run into the deadly discover, <26....Ke6>. As others have rightfully said, <27.Rf8+ Ke5> can be considered a solve as White can pick up Rg8 and be relatively safe. Still, 28.Rxg8?! Rxc3+ muddies the water a bit.

Instead, I went for the staircase here: <28.Qg3+ Ke4 29.Qg4+ Ke5> and here I weirdly thought Qg5 was checkmate... don't know why because we still don't control e6. I probably would have found <30.Rh5+ gxh5 31.Qf5#> over the board, but even now 30.f4+ Kxe4 31.Qg2+ Ke3 (Kd3 32.Qf3#) 32.Rh3# still works.

As others have said, finding mate in full is not necessarily required but if Black doesn't resign after Rf5+ I'd take my time to find it: it's three major pieces vs a king so you know it's there and my opponent would be disrespecting my ability to find it so I will.

Oct-22-24  stacase: And it could have dragged on this way:

26. Rf5+ Ke6
27. Rf8+ Ke5
28. Qg3+ Ke6
29. Qg4+ Ke5
30. Qf4+ Ke6
31. Qg4+ Ke5
32. f4+ Kxe4
33. Qe6+ Kd3
34. Rd1+ Qxd1+
35. Kxd1 Re4
36. Qxe4+ Kxe4
37. Rxg8 1-0

Winds up with Black's King and some Pawns against White's King some Pawns and a Rook so 1-0

Oct-22-24
Premium Chessgames Member
  chrisowen: Pins its um dj v its Rf5 go its faith its abridge its lug its aoe its jet Rf5 bit;
Oct-22-24  Nosnibor: 26.Rf5+ case closed. (Shut)
Oct-22-24  stacase: Just can't leave this one alone:

26. Rf5+ Ke6
27. Rf8+ Ke5
28. Qg3+ Ke6
29. Qg4+ Ke5
30. f4+ Kxe4
31. Qe6+ Kd3
32. Qh3+ Ke4
33. Qg2+ Kd3
34. Qf3#

Oct-22-24  Ultimatepatzer: There be dragons!
Anish Giri gives 9...d5 an exclam.
Yet, every dragon player knows that in this position, 13...Nxh5 would have equalised. As a rule, g4 must be played before h4.
Nevertheless a nice game by Lisa, who (temporarily?) stopped playing chess IOT focus on medical school.
Oct-22-24  tibone: 26. Rf5+ Ke6 27. Rxb5+! Kf7 28. Rb4!
Oct-22-24  King.Arthur.Brazil: Directly: 26. Rf5+ (Kg7 27. Qh7# or gxf5 27. Qxf5+ Kg7 28. Rh7# ) 27. Rf8+ Ke5 28. Qg3+ Ke6 29. Qg4+ Ke5 30. Rh5+ gxh5 31. Qf5#. A beautiful attack!
Oct-22-24  vajeer: <stacase> In the 28. Qg3+ line, there is a faster mate as below 28...Ke6 29. Qg4+ Ke5 30. Rh5+ gxh5 31. Qf5#
Oct-22-24  vajeer: I see most players went with Qg3+ leading to Qf5#. This happens to be one move slower than the f4+ computer chooses, but probably shows how we humans tend to choose moves differently. Keeping the center pawns intact and attacking with the remaining rook was probably more intuitive that we humans explore first.

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