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Jul-24-12
 | | gawain: As she did yesterday, the White queen crashes into the Black position 35 Qxh7+ and then White's rooks mop up. |
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| Jul-24-12 | | dick50: A week of f5! |
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| Jul-24-12 | | M.Hassan: "Easy" White to play 35.?
White has a Rook for a Knight and a pawn.
35.Qxh7+ Nxh7 forced
36.Rxh7+ Kxh7 forced
37.Rh1# |
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| Jul-24-12 | | Nullifidian: Mate in 4:
35. ♕xh7+ ♘xh7 36. ♖xh7+ ♔xh7 37. ♖h1+ ♗h4 38. ♖xh4# |
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| Jul-24-12 | | agb2002: White has a rook for a knight and a pawn.
Black threatens 35... Bxd4.
Pattern recognition quickly finds 35.Qxh7+ Nxh7 36.Rxh7+ Kxh7 37.Rh1+ Bh4 38.Rxh4#. |
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| Jul-24-12 | | Abdel Irada: <File it under "mate"> In this case, it's a forthright mate in four:
35. ♕xh7+, ♘xh7 ▢;
36. ♖xh7+, ♔xh7 ▢;
37. ♖h1+, ♗h4 ▢;
38. ♖xh4# |
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| Jul-24-12 | | sevenseaman: 35. Qxh7+ Nxh7▢ 36. Rxh7+ Kxh7▢ 37. Rh1+ Bh4▢ 38. Rxh4# 1-0. No arguments, they lived happily ever after. |
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| Jul-24-12 | | Djoker: 35. Qxh7+ Nxh7
36. Rxh7+ Kxh7
37. Rh1+ Bh4
38. Rxh4# |
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| Jul-24-12 | | Abdel Irada: Hmm. I understand how my chess student (I'll call him "NN") overlooked a similar combination, given his rating of about 1300. But how a 2300 missed it is a bit harder to understand. |
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Jul-24-12
 | | FSR: Sac twice on h7, then Rh1+ and Rxh4#. |
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Jul-24-12
| | FSR: What was Short doing playing 1.e4 in Catalan Bay? Is that legal? |
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| Jul-24-12 | | jffun1958: 35. Qxh7+ Nxh7 36. Rxh7+ K#h7 37. Rh1+ Bh4 38. Rxh4# |
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| Jul-24-12 | | I play the Fred: Mondays & Tuesdays too easy for you? Take the given position and try to <lose> it using <Loser's Chess> rules! It's fun and challenging. |
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| Jul-24-12 | | I play the Fred: <Losers>
35 Qxh7+ Nxh7
36 Rxh7+ Kxh7
37 Rxg7+ Kxg7
38 Bh1 Bxd4
39 b3 Nxb3+
40 axb3 Qxc2#
Cute stuff, and <37...Bxg7> leads to the same thing. But <37...Qxg7> seems to deny white a forced loss, and black might even be better here. Er, worse. The language of <Losers> can get confusing. |
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| Jul-24-12 | | bachbeet: Got it. I thought this one was easier than Monday's. |
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| Jul-24-12 | | mohannagappan: very easy than monday puzzle |
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| Jul-24-12 | | poszvald: Once again queen sacrifice:)
Qxh7+ Nxh7
Rxh7+ Kxh7
Rh1+ Bh4
Rxh4# |
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| Jul-24-12 | | stacase: Just as easy and nearly no different than yesterday's offering. |
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| Jul-24-12 | | Oxspawn: I don’t think this was too easy. A big step up from yesterday and I spent ten minutes puzzling it out with time spent trying to make the black g pawn vanish so I could mate on g8.
Black has threats of his own with a nasty knight check imminent on d3 with the rook on h1 its next target.
But here the winning factor is brute force, understanding that the rook on g1 is not only threatening its own file but is politely waiting in the queue for the h file.
After a queen and rook sacrifice, what looks like a well-defended square on h3 is eventually left open and the king is exposed with nowhere to run. Very neat. Felt quite pleased with myself for finding this which means I am probably a Tuesday sort of a person. Unlike Short who sees this in advance when it is not even a puzzle. Definitely a red letter Sunday person. 35. Qh7 + Nxh7
36. Rxh7+ Kxh7
37. Rh1++ |
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| Jul-24-12 | | Zatrikion: Sacrifice everybody and win:
35.Qxh7+ Nxh7
36.Rxh7 Kxh7
37.Rh1# |
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| Jul-24-12 | | stacase: <Phony Benoni: There's a legend about a guy who played a similar sacrificial combination, reached for a rook to deliver the mate, and found he had run out.> First Chuckle of the day. |
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| Jul-24-12 | | morfishine: Crunch, Crunch, Gulp: <35.Qxh7+ Nxh7 36.Rxh7+ Kxh7 37.Rh1+> and mate next move If one wanted to improve for Black, I'd have to question <1...c5>: Short is and has been one of the most dangerous anti-Sicilian players around. Seriously though, <13...Nd7> appears crampingly inaccurate. One cannot afford such moves against the likes of Short |
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| Jul-24-12 | | solskytz: 2 seconds? No, that's too short...
3 seconds? No, way too long...
probably it's 2 1/2 then, or some other unlikely fraction... The h-files monsters couldn't seem to be able to bring it to conclusion - until the visit of the g-file cousin... |
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| Jul-24-12 | | Once: The trick to today's puzzle is spotting the role played by the white Bd5, the white f5 pawn and the black g7 pawn. These three pieces block off the g8, g7 and g6 squares. It's as if there is an invisible wall along the g file. The black king is one of those pavement mime artists waving his hands around like a demented table tennis player who has accidentally mislaid his bat. At least for the time being he is stuck on the h file. And nasty things happen on the h file when there is a full moon and the clock strikes twelve. And you've lost your table tennis bat. What we have here, my friends, is a back rank mate position where the board has been turned through ninety degrees. Instead of mating against the back rank, we are mating against the side wall. Let's call it a slow comfortable mate against a wall - a tasty cocktail ... for white at least. |
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| Jul-24-12 | | Oxspawn: <Once>
<a slow comfortable mate against a wall>By a rook?
With a King?
Do you think that is legal in Gibraltar? |
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