Oct-14-16
 | | An Englishman: Good Evening: I somewhat mildly partially sort of somewhat saw the first few moves, but not certain I should claim full credit. But I also saw 26.Qg7, threatening 27.Qe7X. Seems to win at least the Exchange. Does this also work? |
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Oct-14-16
 | | al wazir: I got white's first three moves (but I thought black would play 27...Nf6). Does that count as a solution? |
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Oct-14-16 | | Aunt Jemima: I also got the first three moves and thought black would play differently. I am pretty happy that I saw this one. I thought instead of ...Nxf2 black might play something like ...e5, but I saw the follow up with Qxg6+ and so on. I don't know if I get credit for this one. |
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Oct-14-16 | | AlicesKnight: Why 27...Nxf2? Fiddling while Rome burns...? |
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Oct-14-16 | | dfcx: I went with
26.Qg7 Nxh7 27.Qxg6+ Kd8 28.Bxd7 Ne5 29.Nxe6+ Kxd7 30.Nxf8+ Nxf8 (+3.62, Stockfish 6 @25)  click for larger viewAfter 26.Rxd7 Rxd7 is rated better (+3.04) than 26...Nxd7 (+7.71) |
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Oct-14-16
 | | Fusilli: <al wazir: I got white's first three moves (but I thought black would play 27...Nf6). Does that count as a solution?>
Yes. Not a great puzzle, I think, since White seems to have only one reasonable move (and one reasonable follow up), and then it all depends on what black does, but white's huge advantage is undeniable. |
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Oct-14-16 | | kevin86: Wow! Everything is en prise but white wins anyway! |
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Oct-14-16
 | | Jimfromprovidence: I see 28 Nc6, below as a nice alternative to the text 28 Qxg6+. click for larger viewThe threat is 29 Qe7#.
Perhaps black has to give up his queen to take the knight in order to avoid mate. |
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Oct-14-16 | | YetAnotherAmateur: <Jimfromprovidence> I don't think your plan works, due to 28. ... Rf7. A) 29. Qg8+ Rf8 and black probably has no problem with a draw by repetition here. B) 29. Qxg6 and other non-checking queen moves allows Qxb5, which gives black a threat of Qxe2 and the followup of Qxd1# C) 29. Nxa7 and other non-queen moves causes your queen to drop, probably not what you had in mind. |
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Oct-14-16 | | NBZ: <YetAnotherAmateur>: After 28. ... Rf7 29. Qg8+ Rf8 White has 30. Qxe6#! |
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Oct-14-16 | | agb2002: White is one pawn up.
Black threatens Bxb5, Nxh7, Nxf2, Nxe4, b3, etc. I haven't found the time for this puzzle but I think I'd play 26.Rxd7: A) 26... Rxh8 27.Rxa7+ seems to recover more than enough material. B) 26... Nxd7 27.Qg7 with the threat Nf4-Nxe6 looks very good. C) 26... Rxd7 27.Bxd7+ Nxd7 (27... Kxd7 28.Qxf8 + -) 28.Qg7 as in B. |
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Oct-14-16 | | RandomVisitor: After 18...Nxd3!
 click for larger viewKomodo-10.1-64bit:
-0.83/35 19.cxd3 e5 20.Nc2 Qxf2 21.Rhh1 Qb6 22.Ne3 Qd8 23.hxg6 fxg6 24.Ng1 Be6 25.Nf3 Bg8 26.Ng5 Nh5 27.Nf3 Qe7 28.Rc1 Ng3 29.Rhd1 h6 30.Qf2 Nh5 31.d4 exd4 32.Rxd4 Rd7 33.Qc2 Nf6 34.Qd3 Re8 35.Nd2 Kh7 36.Rf1 Rc7 37.Nec4 Bxc4 38.Nxc4 Nxe4 39.Nxd6 Nxd6 40.Rxd6 Qg7 41.Rdf6 -0.85/35 19.Qg5 h6 20.Qe3 Qc5 21.Rxd3 g5 22.Rh1 Ng4 23.Qg3 e5 24.f3 Nf6 25.Nb3 Qc7 26.Qe1 Be6 27.Qd1 a4 28.Nbc1 Ra6 29.g4 Rc6 30.Rd2 Rc8 31.Rf1 Qb8 32.Ng3 Qb6 33.Qe2 Kh7 34.Qf2 Qa5 35.Rg1 Qa8 36.Nf5 Bxf5 37.exf5 a3 38.Nd3 axb2 39.Nxb4 Rc3 40.Rxd6 Rxf3 |
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Oct-15-16 | | wtpy: An englishman, I thought the best response to 26 Qg7, which I too wanted to play was 26..Bb5;if 27 Qa7 Qa7 28 Ra7 Nf2 I think black has compensation for exchange. If white plays Qg6 then I could not find a clear win after Raf7.(29 Ne6 Be2 30 Nf8 Ne5 or 29 ..Ne5 and black seems to hold.) |
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Oct-15-16
 | | An Englishman: Good Evening: <wtpy>, funny, I saw the same line and thought Black didn't have enough compensation. Oh, well. White probably played the best move. |
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