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| Apr-17-07 | | nfazli: makes a good monday or tuesday puzzle after 22.Qa4 |
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| Apr-07-08 | | thefableddavid: yay. i got it in like 10 seconds. |
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| Apr-07-08 | | wouldpusher: White would have done better with 22. ♕h3, but after 22. ... ♕xb4, it looks like his chances are still poor. |
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| Apr-07-08 | | dzechiel: Black to move. White is up a pawn. "Very Easy."
After looking at all the checks by captures on f2 and f1, I now notice that 23...Qxf3
wins a piece for black as
24 gxf3 Rg6#
is mate. Albin takes one on the chin. |
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| Apr-07-08 | | Cibator: King not safe even with a rook either side of him .... Black's winning manoeuvre slightly reminiscent of Paulsen-Morphy, 1857. |
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| Apr-07-08 | | mynameisrandy: Kind of reminiscent of S Levitsky vs Marshall, 1912 |
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| Apr-07-08 | | zooter: Monday and an easy one (though it took about 5 seconds more than usual monday) 23...Qxf3 wins a piece for white as 24.gxf3 Rg6# |
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| Apr-07-08 | | malvar: Queen sacrifice, nice. 23...Qxf3 24,gxf3 Rg6# piece of cake. yesterdays puzzle lived up to the insanity plead ( E Vladimirov vs Van der Sterren, 1990) |
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| Apr-07-08 | | mkrk17: Yeah..took little longer than normal mondays because first you need to see that Qxf1 does not work, neither does Qxf2, nor does Bxf2. Then once you get out of that, then you see that Qxf3 works like a charm. |
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| Apr-07-08 | | Terry McCracken: <mynameisrandy: Kind of reminiscent of S Levitsky vs Marshall, 1912> That was truly a nice game, one of my favorites!
However, the game below is certainly most reminiscent with the Queen sac on f3. Another Marshall beauty! Janowski vs Marshall, 1912 |
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| Apr-07-08 | | Frankly: Did White really play gxf3? What's interesting in these older games is that the player at the wrong end of a combination or forced mate often played through it, instead of resigning - not so much out of the hope that the opponent might somehow mess it up or suffer a heart attack at the right moment, as to allow the consummation of something pretty. But here, not even such an excuse presented itself, since there was a prosaic way of prolonging the agony (g3). He could not have missed the mate, not after Qxf3, as otherwise the move would just have been daft beyond words, so I just wonder whether gxf was actually played, or just entered for posterity. |
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| Apr-07-08 | | MostlyAverageJoe: <Frankly: there was a prosaic way of prolonging the agony (g3)> Hiarcs says that 24.g3 allows a mate in 7:
24. ... Rf6 25. Qc2 Re8 26. Qd2 Re2 27. Qxe2 Qxe2 28. Kg2 Qf3+ 29. Kh3 Rf5 30. d6 Rh5# 24.h3 does prolong the agony a bit more.
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| Apr-07-08 | | AniamL: Say black doesn't see taking the knight.
Doesn't Rxd5, and the idea of doubling up the rooks on the d file (with white's f1 rook pinned because of Qxf2#) force mate in a few moves also? |
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| Apr-07-08 | | AniamL: Never mind, I think h3 saves white... |
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| Apr-07-08 | | Gilmoy: <Cibator: King not safe even with a rook either side of him ....> He's unsafe <precisely because> his 2nd rook is there, blocking a flight square. R-K-R features in two canonical mate patterns (for the <other> player!): epaulette when they're all in a line, swallowtail when they're in a V or L. Very few successful offensive patterns involve a K between both its Rs. Rs want to get centered, vertical, doubled, and to the 7th/8th, in some permutation, and a wise K gets out of their way. |
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Apr-07-08
 | | gawain: Yes, the delightful epaulette mate. So, how on earth did white get himself into this position with the R-K-R at f1, g1, h1? What a dramatic lesson in the consequences of failure to castle--say, at move 11. |
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| Apr-07-08 | | eblunt: <AniamL: Never mind, I think h3 saves white...> Not really .. 23 .... ♖xd5 24. h3 ♗xf2+ and white's position is pretty dire. |
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| Apr-07-08 | | zb2cr: After wasting a little time looking for a way to take advantage of the Bishop and Queen lining up on f2, I took a fresh look at the situation. The White Rooks hem his King in. Epaulette mate. And so, Black can steal a piece in broad daylight by 23. ... Qxf3. |
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| Apr-07-08 | | 012: Sunday puzzle <29. ?> Apr-06-08 E Vladimirov vs Van der Sterren, 1990 |
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| Apr-07-08 | | johnlspouge: Monday (Very Easy): Black to play and win.
Material: Down a P, with B for N. The Kg1 has no legal move, so Black wants to check. Three Black pieces, Bb6, Rd6, and Qe2 have immediate access to Kg1. An examination of checks, captures, and threats reveals the candidate. Candidates (23…): Qxf3
23…Qxf3 24.gxf3 [else, lose a N] Rg6#
The mate is the first epaulette mate with a R I have seen. The standard one with a Q can be found at http://www.markalowery.net/Chess/Ch.... |
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| Apr-07-08 | | whiteshark: A pleasurable Monday puzzle! :D
Another (unusual) epaulette mate occured in Carlsen vs S Ernst, 2004 : 
click for larger view |
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| Apr-07-08 | | pagliacci19: <whiteshark> that was a nice one--no use of the back rank for white... |
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| Apr-07-08 | | znprdx: 20....Re6 was the fine point. 21.Qa4 was incomprehensible....hence there was no puzzle...White was lost since playing 14.exd5?? |
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| Apr-07-08 | | firstagainst: Hello all (my first post...).
Have to admit I forgot about evaluating the position. Seeing the predicament of the White king, looked for a Black knight to deliver smothered mate, and when there wasn't one, looked at the g-file. So I got to the answer quicker than I might if I'd tried to be systematic. This time.... But was not castling White's only blunder? Would something like 20.h3 ♖e6 21.♕d7 ♕c2 22.♔g1 ♕xf2+ 23.♔h2 ♖e2 24.♕g4 have left some small hope of a draw? |
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| Apr-07-08 | | zooter: Reminds me of the April 1st GOTD...
1.e4 e5 2.Qh5 Ke7?? 3.Qxe5#
isn't that another epaulette mate? |
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