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| May-20-10 | | openingspecialist: My idea was Qd8 and Rxc7 with Re7 |
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| May-20-10 | | VincentL: "Medium".
I have looked at this position for some time and see nothing "clear cut". I like 28. Be6 as the starting move; after 28....fxe6 29. Qe7 threatening 29. Qf8 mate. But black has 29.....Nd7 and after 30. dxe6 Qf6, leading to a losing position for white. I am not making progress, it is late, and I am going to check. |
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| May-20-10 | | VincentL: Uh! Qd8. Should have tried this.
In my time zone, I can either look at these puzzles late at night, or else sometime the next day during my work hours. I have noticed that I do significantly better the next day, when I am less tired. But it is always too tempting to try the puzzle when it is new, even if I am half asleep. I don't know whether others would make similar comments. |
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| May-20-10 | | sh8911: miss the Kf1£¡ lol |
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| May-20-10 | | CapablancaFan122: Oh, wow I totally missed this! It's only Thursday too |
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| May-20-10 | | Octal: Kf1 is quite a shocker, but then right when it hits you it's so obviously good. |
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| May-20-10 | | tacticalmonster: 1) White is down a pawn
2) White LSB is threatened twice
3) White has the unopposed dark square B targeting g7 and f8 square. 4)White queen wants to go to either f6 or e7 safely. She can attack the backrank with Qd8. 5) Black queenside is undeveloped. White wants to stop black from playing Nd7 completing development and strengthing the backrank. 6) Black queen is overloaded. It defends the e-file, the a1-h8 long diagonal and the e8 bad bishop 7) Black has backrank issue.
8) c1 rook attacks the half-open c file and the c7 pawn. If the rook can be protected on e1, it is game over. candidate: 28 Qd8
28 Qd8 gxf5 29 Kf1 Nd7! 30 Qxa8 Nf8  |
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| May-20-10 | | tacticalmonster: I actually saw 29 Kf1 but I misassessed the position after that so no credit for me. |
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| May-20-10 | | tacticalmonster: This is the first time in a Thursday puzzle I have to spend around half an hour to find the right candidate: 28 Qd8 and the Key move: 29 Kf1 |
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| May-20-10 | | tacticalmonster: I don't know why I thought 30 Nf8 saves the position. It doesn't. after a) 30 Nf8 31 Bxf8 Kxf8 32 Re1
b) 30 Nf8 31 Bxf8 Bb5+ 32 Kg1
White is simply up a rook in both variation. |
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| May-20-10 | | Once: Too tough for me today. I played with all sorts of lines that nearly did something, but nothing that convinced me, and nothing that is worth posting. It's a bit like the critic who said that a play was both original and good. Unfortunately, the bits that were original weren't any good, and the bits that were good weren't original. I had lines with Qd8, but didn't pair them with Kf1. And I had lines with Kf1 and didn't accompany them with Qd8. <grumps>. Anyhoo, here's an unplugged:
click for larger viewWhite has at least two winning plans here. The kindergarten method is to plonk a queen on f6 and then mate on g7. But if black has defended the long diagonal, as in today's puzzle, the alternative route is to check on the back rank. Tal was a genius. |
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| May-20-10 | | KokeFischer: I saw 28. Be6 with menace of Qe7 and mate on f8 and g7.
I could not see defence against it. |
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May-20-10
 | | scormus: <dzechiel> I saw it the same as you, 28 Qe8 but missing the beautifully quiet 29 Kf1. So Talesque! Instead I went with 28 Be6 fxe6 29 Bf4 If Qe2 30 Qe7 Nd7 31 dxe6 etc. But there are other options for B and it's not clear that W wins in every case. |
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| May-20-10 | | lost in space: I missed the very strong, quite move 29. Kf1.
Very nice puzzle today! |
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| May-20-10 | | kirchhoff: 28. f4 might work. It's not the best solution of course, but it displaces the black queen, who gets in some checks--after which the white queen moves to either f6 or e7. Then Black starts sacrificing to stop mate. |
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| May-20-10 | | Dr. J: <Jimfromprovidence: Black's best try is 29... Nd7 30 Qxa8 Qe4 31 Kg1> then 31 ... Nf6, and now in material Black is still down only the exchange for a pawn. So, while White is clearly (a lot) better, did Black really have to resign? |
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May-20-10
 | | LIFE Master AJ: I actually thought today's problem was simple.
However, to be completely honest, I had several books on Tal as a teenager. It may very well be that I was simply remembering rather than calculating, everything did come very, very quickly. (Less than two minutes ... maybe a whole lot less than that.) |
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| May-20-10 | | felixd: Nice puzzle today! Kf1 was really difficult to find. |
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| May-20-10 | | zanshin: I didn't get Kf1 .. very sad about the suicide. |
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| May-20-10 | | et 9: Why doesn't 28.Be6 work ? |
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| May-20-10 | | jsheedy: After 2 minutes I saw 28. Be6, but it took me another 15 minutes to see the best defense, which is 28...Qh5!, 29. Qe7, Qxh6, 30. Qxe8+, Qf8, 31. Bxf7+, Kg7, 32. Rxc7! If 28...fx36, 29. Qe7, exd5 (what else?), 30. Qf8#. I may have missed something here, since I did it all in my head, no board, no computer, so let's see how it shakes out.... |
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May-20-10
 | | chrisowen: Care now, 28.Qd8 a shot of which queen hand downfall. Gxf5 and then Kf1 falls in place hooking the stitch up of bank rank. It fit like a glove white envelopes the royal male and sorts a tall order wrapping up the heavy pieces. Zugzwang approach Grigorian and faces the music hanted in resigning off. He stood up rather than bridging the next gap. |
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| May-20-10 | | jsheedy: I missed it. Durn. |
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| May-20-10 | | xmachine: knowing that Tal's playing White, it's bound to be spectacular! I see Qd8, which really ties down Black's pieces (not ONE of them can move, I don't think), and the bishop is immune (28...Qxf5 29.Qxe8#)(28...gxf5 29.Qg4+ and mates) I can't see any sacrificial opportunities, so that'll be my answer... |
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| May-20-10 | | xmachine: right move, wrong reason why gxf5 doesn't work (I overlooked Kh8...) I guess after Kg1, the queen is lost after Re1 |
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