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| Mar-31-13 | | Abdel Irada: <switz off>: Your question is answered in my solution post as well as the comment from <Salty>. After 21. ...Be6? 22. Qxc3, Black loses a piece, and any attempt to swindle back material only worsens his plight. Black's best chance lies in my variation (2.2). |
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| Mar-31-13 | | M.Hassan: "Insane"
White to play 21.?
White is a pawn down.
21.Qc4 Be6
22.Qxc3 Bxb3
23.Qxb3 Nd4
24.Qa4
White becomes a piece ahead for a pawn
Time to check
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Looks like my move of 21...Be6 not relevant! |
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| Mar-31-13 | | UnsoundHero: I thought it looked strange when Black developed his QN to c6, moved it back to b8, moved it to c6 again, then un-developed his QB from b7 to c8. It's almost as if he lost just for this reason. |
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| Mar-31-13 | | mistreaver: Sunday. White to play. Insane. 21?
I would play here:
21 Qc4
and now both the knight and rook on a8 are hanging, and also a capture on f7 is threatened.
I know this is a bit so simplistic for Sunday puzzle, but material is even and i don't see how black can defend both the rook
and the knight at the same time, and also the f7 pawn.
Say:
21... Be6
22 Qxc3 Bxb3
23 Qxb3 Rb8
24 Ng4
I know that there is probably some brilliant combination, but i think that Qc4 also wins. Time to check.
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Yeah, Qc4 is the move. In the game line taking the knight with the queen would have also won, but the final combination is very pretty. I will take half a point again since i was to lazy to calculate, finishing the week with 5/7 |
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| Mar-31-13 | | Abdel Irada: <UnsoundHero>: Black's strange opening moves did serve a logical purpose and are not unusual in the Ruy Lopez. White maintained a slight advantage, but I don't think Black was lost until he got greedy with 17. ...Nxc3, leaving his knight on a fatally vulnerable square. |
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| Mar-31-13 | | morfishine: White has such an advantage (with the Black rook hanging and the undefended Knight on c3) that an immediate 'insane' move is not necessary nor even apparent; Instead <21.Qc4> overwhelming f7 while attacking the hanging Knight, forces the loss of material, no matter how much Black squirms; As it turns out, there's quite a lot of squirming left to be done |
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| Mar-31-13 | | mira94: easyy |
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| Mar-31-13 | | Abdel Irada: I hope no one found my pun about Norqvist and shrinking (the knight) until he could drown it in his bathtub too <taxing>. ;-) |
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Mar-31-13
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| Mar-31-13 | | vinidivici: Its kinda Friday puzzle or at least Saturday. not like Sunday one. |
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| Mar-31-13 | | agb2002: White is a pawn down.
Black threatens 21... Bxg4.
The obvious move is 21.Qc4 with the double threat 22.Nxa8 and 22.Qxc4. After 21... Qd4 22.Nxa8 (22.Qxd4 Nxd4 23.Nxa8 Nxb3 recovers material) 22... Ne2+ 23.Rxe2 Qxa8 24.Re1 White has a knight for a pawn but the a-pawn is hanging and the knights may have problems. I think I'll stop here. I had enough chess today watching Kramnik and Carlsen games. |
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| Mar-31-13 | | whiteshark: fuget se mateereeaaal |
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| Mar-31-13 | | Salty: 23. ...Qb4 looks like it staves off the end. Black keeps the piece but is down the exchange with a terribly uncoordinated position and bad pawn structure. |
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| Mar-31-13 | | Patriot: After looking at this for a while, my top choice is 21.Qc4. I'm not sure what the catch is. 21...Nb5 22.Nxf7; 21...Be6 22.Qxc3 Ra7 23.Bxe6 fxe6  .I must be missing something for an "insane" problem. But I don't feel like spending more time on this. |
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| Apr-01-13 | | rwbean: Nice combination, but he should have played 20. ♘xe7+ ♕xe7 21. ♕c4 before that, winning a piece (either the ♘ on c3 or the ♖ on a8). |
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| May-22-16 | | whiteshark: The last move should indicate mate (#) |
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| Sep-29-23 | | Brenin: Now where have I seen that mating pattern before? 23 Nxf7 Qxa5 (not Rxf7 24 Qxf7+ Kh8 29 Qg8 mate) 24 Bh6+ Kg8 (Kf6 25 Qh4+ with mate next move) 25 Ng5+ Kh8 (Be6 is useless) 26 Qg8+ Rxg8 29 Nf7 mate. |
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| Sep-29-23 | | King.Arthur.Brazil: Beautiful... I really passed by... |
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| Sep-29-23 | | stacase: That was fun! |
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| Sep-29-23 | | mel gibson: I saw that first ply but didn't calculate out all the possibilities. Stockfish 16 says:
23. Nxf7
(23. Nxf7 (Nh6xf7 Bc8-e6 Qc4xe6 Qb6xe6 Bb3xe6 Rf8xf7 Bc1-b2 Be7-d8 Bb2xc3 Rf7-e7 Be6-d5 Bd8xa5 Bc3xa5 Ra8-b8 g2-g3
Kg7-f6 Ba5-c3 Kf6-f5 Re1-e3 Rb8-b1+ Kg1-g2 Kf5-f6 f2-f4 Re7-e8 Bc3xe5+
) +4.87/49 371)
score for White +4.87 depth 49. |
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Sep-29-23
 | | Check It Out: I was so close to solving this. |
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| Sep-29-23 | | Mayankk: Beautiful ending. Happy to have seen it till the end. White's Rook is attacked but is out of action anyways and so can be considered dispensable. After 23 Nxf7 Qxa5 24 Bg6+ Kg8 25 Nxe5+ Kh8. Now came the moment of reckoning. So far it was almost on autopilot. At first glance nothing stood out. But then we see the possibility of half-smothered mate. 26 Qg8+ Rxg8 27 Nf7#. Bingo! |
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Sep-29-23
| | chrisowen: Ucky its feck jag its sark pow its Nxf7 achtung match its goof its ace me its aoh its jah its Nxf7 ear :) |
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Sep-29-23
 | | PawnSac: yes, 23. ..Be6 would certainly have been better, although white retains a strong advantage. But after 23. ..Qxa5 black is completely busted. But all the better for us, as black's blunder let white execute a beautiful mate. |
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| Sep-29-23 | | Hercdon: Nice easy mate |
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sac: 23.Nxf7