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| Apr-13-15 | | detritus: Just don't slip up on the placement of the queen. |
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| Apr-13-15 | | bengalcat47: Kind of a vertical turn to a back-rank mate. |
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| Apr-13-15 | | Murphyman: "Just don't slip up on the placement of the queen."
Agreed otherwise the female monarch will become a piece of detritus. |
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| Apr-13-15 | | Once: The Black king and queen are standing on a pair or forkable squares. If the h7 pawn was gone, I could play Ng6+ and fork king and queen. The Black king is stalemated. If the h7 pawn was gone, I could play Qh4 and give checkmate. So if the answer is to get rid of the h7 pawn, what is the question? Try a few versions and ... hey presto ... Ng6+ works. It turns out that the king-queen fork wasn't needed after all. My friends, I need to ask for your help. I am close to finishing writing two new chess books. One is a "how to" book, telling readers how to graduate from knowing the moves to playing club level chess. The other is a collection of games to illustrate the points made in the first. I am looking for beta readers. This sounds more complicated than it is. All I need is for a few people to read through the book and let me know what they think of it. No editing or proofreading skills required. I am afraid there is no payment for this kind service, but I will immortalise every beta reader with a suitable acknowledgement in the book. Or think of it as a way of getting a free chess book or two. More details to follow on my profile page. |
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| Apr-13-15 | | morfishine: White's WSB covers <g8> enabling the following finish: <25.Ng6+> and mate next move: 25...hxg6 26.Qh4# ***** |
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| Apr-13-15 | | TheaN: Monday 13 April 2015 <25.?> Miles mates with <25.Ng6+ hxg6 26.Qh4# 1-0>. Not much to it, black got baited into removing the defender of g6. <Once> interesting proposition. Would have loved to do that, were it not I'm looking at a master degree graduation in the next two months, so busy as is. If you still need someone after that, I will most likely not be that busy during summer. |
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| Apr-13-15 | | patzer2: Black's decisive error is 24...Nxd6?? which allows the two-move mate 25.Ng6+! hxg6 26.Qh4#, solving today's Monday puzzle. Instead, Black can hold on with 24... Be6 when play might continue 25. Nxe5 fxe5 26. Bb1! (not 26. Qxe5? Qxh4  ) 26... Nb5 (not 26... Bg8? 27. Nf5! Qf6 28. Rxc6!  ) 27. Nf3 c5 28. Qxe5 Bg4 29. Qg3 Bxf3 30. Qxf3 Qe5 31. b4 Rbc8 32. a4 Nd4 33. Qe3  (+0.97 @ 20 depth, Deep Fritz 14). |
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| Apr-13-15 | | zb2cr: Simple and forced. 25. Ng6+, hxg6; 26. Qh4#. |
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| Apr-13-15 | | patzer2: Miles, who loved opening innovations, might have appreciated the possibility 3...f6! = (diagram below)
click for larger viewwhen Deep Fritz 14 gives best play as 4. Bc1 e5 5. e3 Be6 = (-0.09 @ 21 depth). The one game with 3...f6! in the chessgames.com opening explorer is a win for Black in M B Jovanovic vs O Pardic, 2012. |
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Apr-13-15
 | | Penguincw: One of the hardest Mondays in a while.
At first I thought it was a trick, as there's a knight hanging, but then white would lose a pawn. I was also looking for some queen sac/fork, but couldn't find it. Then I saw 25.Ng6+ hxg6 26.Qh4# 1-0 (26.Qh3+ and white loses). |
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| Apr-13-15 | | whiteshark: ... because the technique has so far only been developed in a small number of players. |
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| Apr-13-15 | | Mating Net: That was a mighty strong Bishop on b1. Black doesn't even have the option of declining the Knight. |
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| Apr-13-15 | | stacase: <detritus: Just don't slip up on the placement of the queen.> Uhm yeah, Roger that --- "Snatched from the Jaws of Victory" comes to mind. |
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Apr-13-15
 | | gawain: What an odd position. 25 Ng6+! does it. The white bishop covering square g8 all the way from his cubbyhole a2 is so sneaky. |
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| Apr-13-15 | | mistreaver: Monday. White to play. Very Easy. 25.?
Wow, i first looked at Nf5 abd Rxd3 and Rxc6.
Then i realized it is Monday.
25 Ng6+ hxg6
26 Qh4 mate |
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| Apr-13-15 | | Castleinthesky: Mondays-under 20 seconds-once I saw the bishop holding back the king, the rest fell naturally. |
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| Apr-13-15 | | TheTamale: 25) Ng5+ hxg6
26) Qh3+ Bxh3
What???!! |
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| Apr-13-15 | | kevin86: Instead of sacrificing the queen this Monday, white forks the enemy king and queen. The knight can be captured but only at the cost of opening the door to the king and immediate checkmate. |
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| Apr-13-15 | | AvidChessMan: While lures the black knight away with 22.de5 and frees up h4. This sets up the knight sac for white. Why didn't black respond with 22...fe5, opening up the f file? Perhaps black was trying to protect g5. |
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Apr-13-15
 | | Bubo bubo: The Ph7 is overloaded: it has to cover g6, but it also has to keep the h-file closed. Therefore 25.Ng6+ hxg6 26.Qh4# (Nice dual-purpose move 25, it also clears h4 for the queen.) |
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| Apr-13-15 | | FlashinthePan: Would 24...Bd6 to intercept White's control of g8 have held? |
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| Apr-13-15 | | morfishine: <chrisowen> It's just a 2-move mate |
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| Apr-13-15 | | Cheapo by the Dozen: Our friend, the h-file. |
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| Apr-13-15 | | patzer2: <FlashinthePan: Would 24...Bd6 to intercept White's control of g8 have held?> Think you mean 24...Be6, in which case it appears to hold with White having a pawn advantage. See Deep Fritz 14 analysis in my first post above. |
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| Apr-14-15 | | FlashinthePan: <patzer2> Yes 24...Be6, thanks! |
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sac: 24.Nd3