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| Mar-07-11 | | EXIDE: Missed my first Monday puzzle. Feel like kicking myself. Maybe the remainder of the week will be better. There is something different to todays puzzle, just cannot put my finger on it. |
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| Mar-07-11 | | Once: <rilkefan> As an e4 player, I just love it when black plays the pirc/ modern with g6 or d6/g6. Then I play the 150 attack with moves like Nc3-Bf4 (or sometimes Bg5)-Qd2-f3 and then 0-0-0 and h4-h5. It's not a guaranteed win for white, but you have an easy-peasy join-the-dots attack which is a lot of fun to play. You are going to play Bh6 at some point then rip open the h file. Against the dragon, accelerated or otherwise, white can play a very similar attack with the closed sicilian - Nc3-g3-Bg2-Be3-Qd2 and (if you get the chance - h4-h5 and/or the trademark Bh6. I think it's one of the peculiarities of chess that the KID seems to lose some of its sting if you try to play it against e4. So what to do? The pirc/modern and accelerated dragon are viable openings. You just need to learn lines against the crude club hacks, like the one that I play. Then you defend against the white attacks, equalise and win in the middlegame/ endgame. Or look for a black opening against e4 that doesn't leave you open to strong white attacks. I use the french, but it does need a particular way of thinking. The holy grail of club chess is the universal opening that is easy to play, can be used against any opening, doesn't leave you open to nasty attacks and gives you good chances winning. I must have spent hundreds of pounds in chess books and thousands of hours looking for such an opening. The sad news is that I haven't found it yet. Sure there are universal openings like 1...g6 against everything. But they tend to be the "sit back and soak it up" sort of openings, where you have to endure being attacked. White has systems like the Colle, London or KIA which can be played against just about anything. But a reasonably well prepared player usually has a pet line to make those openings look pedestrian. |
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| Mar-07-11 | | morfishine: 8.Qc1 and white wins a piece |
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| Mar-07-11 | | SimonWebbsTiger: @Obit
I think I would have found it because I never make quick moves in the opening, even if it is a theoretical variation I know well. There are two reasons for that:
a) developing rhythm, getting into the game
b) what I think is theory need not be so, false mental impression Taking time in the opening, in something you know, may seem like a waste of time. It is a good thing for the practical player. |
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| Mar-07-11 | | LoveThatJoker: Ok. Hello everyone! My solution to this puzzle is 8. Qc1 which wins a piece as 8...Qa5 allows 9. Bd2 which still wins a piece. Black's best in this position is probably 8...o-o or possibly even 8...Bg4. In any case however, Black is losing material. LTJ
PS. <Once> and <Scormus>, I'm back and starting from a clean slate. Thanks for having been sincerely so kind so as to provide me with last Sunday's puzzle. I'm back now and will start the puzzle count from today. Thank you sincerely again! |
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| Mar-07-11 | | sfm: LOL! A bolt from the blue. Reminded me, of course, of
Christiansen vs Karpov, 1993
which is equally lovely. |
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| Mar-07-11 | | gofer: Err... "Very Easy"!? Nope, not to me it isn't.
The only thing I can see is the obvious Nc3 starting to chase the queen to a bad place
and then backing it up with Bb5+ and Qa4. But perhaps we are meant to play Bxh6 and
then follow it up with Ne5. That would follow the same idea (i.e. control of the a4-e8
diagonal). But this is clearly not Monday stuff! So lets think a little bit out of the box!
Qc2? Attacking Bc8? Okay the light daws! Finally, the queen can threaten Nh6 AND Bc8! <8 Qc1 ...>
This has the added bonus that the is no pin for black to exploit on the c1-h5 diagonal,
so Bg4 is not very effective and does lose the piece... <8 ... Bg4>
<9 Nc3 ...>
Its a slaughter! Time to check... |
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| Mar-07-11 | | TheaN: Monday 7 March 2011
<8.?>
Material: =
Candidates: Nc3, Bc4, <[Qc1]> -ML-
I never like Knights on h6. Here when I saw it, the key move becomes evident. <8.Qc1  > forking two minor pieces without any clear zwischenzug. Okay, I missed Qe6 but black's position is already so messed up that a move like d5 isn't hard to find. But I think that in that position a lot wins. |
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| Mar-07-11 | | morfishine: I think if there's any difficulty in seeing this, its related to the "lateral" block prevalent in chess, even amongst grandmasters. We can see the file-moves/pins and the diangonal-moves/pins readily enough, but the sidewise-moves/pins along a rank are harder to visualize. Why is that? Who knows, its probably related to our own brain make-up and is a facet of chess that one needs to work at to perfect. In any case, this didn't come instantly for me, but took about 1-minute. |
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| Mar-07-11 | | newzild: Good to have a puzzle that's a little different to the usual Monday queen sac. Took me a few seconds longer than usual. |
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| Mar-07-11 | | agb2002: From an Indian Defense, Grunfeld perhaps.
The material is even.
Black probably has the intention of building pressure against White's d-pawn. The pieces on c8 and h6 are hanging. Hence, 8.Qc1, winning a piece. |
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| Mar-07-11 | | eblunt: After 8. ♕c1 ♗g4 9. ♗xh6 ♗xh6 10. ♕xh6 ♗xf3 11 gxf3 ♘c6 White is clearly winning, but still has a little bit of work still to do - he loses the d pawn, and the doubled f pawns are going to be a problem. Certainly still a little bit of game left at club level IMO. |
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| Mar-07-11 | | Marmot PFL: The "normal" move for white in this position is 8 Nc3. Where the position varies from normal is Nh6 instead of ♘f6. This of course allows Nf5 attacking d4 and Ne3, ex 8 Qd2 Nf5. But if white just looks at one more attacking move 8 Qc1, the game is won (which black, a strong player, somehow missed). |
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| Mar-07-11 | | Coldtrain: I'm a novice at chess. I was thinking if black answers 8. Qc1 with Bd7 and then, if it's necessary, stops the exchange at h6 by moving his queen to a5+ or h5. Wouldn't that take the edge of white's attack? |
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| Mar-07-11 | | gus inn: <Coldtrain> Black will then be a piece down,which is more than enough. |
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| Mar-07-11 | | JamesT Kirk: I didn't see,like Mr. Plachetka,the simple 8.Qc1!!TERRIBLE. |
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| Mar-07-11 | | johnlspouge: My initial scan searches for poorly defended pieces, and my eye was instantly drawn to Bc8 and Nh6, for the following reason. One forked piece is a B; the other piece, on an opposite colored square. No movement of Bc1 can protect Nh6. Moreover, because the attack on the Nh6 is along the diagonal, interposition by Bc1 is also impossible. Such forks are therefore likely to win material. |
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| Mar-07-11 | | knight knight: This one took me longer to spot than Sunday's solution!! 8. Qc1 with a double attack on c8 and h6. If 8...Qa5+ 9. Bd2 now the queen is attacked as well. 8...Bg4 9. Bxh6 Bxh6 10. Qxh6 Bxf3 11. gxf3 Qxd4 black gets a pawn in return but that is all. |
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| Mar-07-11 | | Patriot: First I looked at 8.Qa4+, 8.Bb5+, 8.Bc4 and then saw 8.Qc1 immediately. But I didn't stop there and looked at 8...Qa5+ 9.Bd2 . I have to admit that 8...Qe6?! did not come to mind, which temporarily stops both threats. But... 9.d5 should make it clear. <al wazir> I agree with everything you said about the patterns to look for. Dan Heisman calls them "seeds of tactical destruction". The puzzle itself should be "very easy" and here's why. It meets the "principle of two weaknesses", Silmans "rules of combinations", and Dan's "seeds of tactical destruction". One might think the knight on h6 is defended so it doesn't qualify as a weakness, but this isn't true. By Silman this is a "loosely guarded piece". Dan would call it an "IGP" (inadequately guarded piece). It is attacked exactly as many times it is defended. That alone is not enough to have a combination, but with the bishop on c8 completely unguarded the combination becomes possible. Another way to think of the bishop on c8 is that it is also attacked as many times as it is defended--zero. We all have days where things like this aren't easy to see, since that is just being human. But technically, there is every reason this should be "very easy". |
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| Mar-07-11 | | CHESSTTCAMPS: No queen sac? I think I'm stuck... OK, I guess a tamer move will do: 8.Qc1 wins a minor piece and black should resign. Black's development scheme is original, but completely unsound. As a Maryland master once said, "To be original is to lose many games". Unfortunately, he was kibitzing a loss by yours truly. |
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| Mar-07-11 | | knight knight: Missed the 8...Qe6 defensive try pointed out by <Egghead> and <zb2cr>. 9. d5 is the reply. |
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Mar-07-11
 | | alexrawlings: Argh! I couldn't get the monday puzzle. Bad start to the week :( Here's a fun game for those of you who also missed it and would like some cheering up (or if you just fancy a fun game): http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanb... |
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| Mar-07-11 | | beenthere240: Another boring queen sac for monday? A far less than obvious queen maneuver instead. |
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| Mar-07-11 | | TheTamale: <Once:> I once saw a book by a well-known modern master--I can't remember who; it might've been Andy Soltis or someone like that--that suggested the Stonewall Attack/Defense for just such a purpose. |
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| Mar-07-11 | | Rama: Yeah, why was this so tuff?
Once, I too sought the Universal Club Opening. I too landed on the French as black against e4. Against d4 I chose the NimzoIndian. They're both strategical with few opening traps and my familiarity with them often allowed me to play several hundred points above my rating. As white I played toward the Four Knights, deception being the heart of the Art of War! |
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