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May-14-18
 | | Phony Benoni: Chess is cruel. Black has almost no shelter for his king, and what little there is gets rudely stripped away. 31.Rxg6+ Kxg6 32.Qg4+ Kh6/Kh7 33.Rh3# |
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May-14-18
 | | FSR: 31.Rxg6+ Kxg6 32.Rg3+! Kf7 33.Qh5+ Kf6 34.Qg5+ Kf7 35.Qg6+ Kf8 36.Qg8# or 33...Kf8 34.Qh8+ Kf7 35.Rg7+ Kf6 36.Rg8+ Kf7 (36...Rg7 37.Qxg7#) 37.Qg7#. |
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May-14-18
 | | Penguincw: Happy belated Mother's Day.
Well, this wasn't the easiest Monday puzzle. (what up with these May Monday puzzles) Took me a while to see that 31.Rxg6+ would work. (rejection of the sacrifice leads to 31...Kf8 32.Qh8# 1-0). I went with 32.Qf6+ which wins too, with just one extra move. 32...Kh5 33.Rh3+ Kg4 34.Rh4# 1-0. 32...Kh7 33.Rh3+ Kg8 34.Rh8# 1-0. Before seeing 31.Rxg6+ I tried making moves like Rh3, Qh6, Qh7 and Rf7 working. Now in the initial position white is up a whole piece, so technically just trading material wins too. |
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| May-14-18 | | zb2cr: I believe the pattern has been called the lawnmower mate", for the parallel paths covered by the mating side's heavy pieces. 31. Rxg6+, Kxg6; 32. Qg4+, Kh6(h7); 33. Rh3#. |
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May-14-18
| | FSR: I had a weird hallucination - thought that Black could respond to 32.Qg4+ with 32...Kh8 33.Rh3+ Rh7. Oh well, my line should force mate too, just four moves more slowly. |
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| May-14-18 | | nalinw: I had the same hallucination as FSR but went with 32. Qf6+ - which I believe wins a little quicker. Penguincw also hallucinates that
31. ... Kf8 is possible ... |
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| May-14-18 | | WorstPlayerEver: Weird. No one tried 32. Rf6+ Kg7
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| May-14-18 | | stacase: One of the disadvantages of these puzzles is the fact that you're coming to a situation cold. If you had been playing the game right along, you would know where it was going. What I mean is that in these puzzles you might see the winning move 31.Rxg6+ in this case but have to take the time to see if it works. Sometimes that takes a little bit of time and then again, puzzles like today's offering, the time to see if it actually works is very short. As Monday's go this was very easy (-: |
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| May-14-18 | | ChessHigherCat: I think we've all been hypnotized by the same radio waves. I was (needlessly) worried about the rook interposition, too, so I went with 31. Rxg6 Kxg6 32. Qf6+ Kh7 33. Rh3+ Kg8 34. Rh8-matuskovonovich. Try a little (str)angulation. |
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May-14-18
 | | al wazir: Black is a piece down and is busted in so many ways that it hardly matters what white does. Besides the line played in the game I saw 31. Rxg6+ Kxg6 32. Qf6+ Kh5 (32...Kh7 33. Rh3+ Kg8 34. Rh8#) 33. Rh3+ Kg4 34. Rg3+ Kh5 35. Qg5#. The move I liked best (because it attacks the black ♔ on *three* files, the chess equivalent of the rack) is 31. Rg3, threatening 32. Rgxg6#. If 31...Kg8, then 32. Rgxg6+ Rg7 33. Rxg7+ Kxg7 34. Qg5+ Kh7/Kh8 35. Rh6#. And if 31...Qe8, then 32. Qg5 dxe4 (as good as anything) 33. Rxg6+ Kh8 34. Qf6+ Kh7 35. Rh6#. |
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| May-14-18 | | lost in space: I love Mondays!
The quickest kill is 31.Rxg6+ Kxg6 32.Qg4+ Kh6/Kh7 33.Rh3# - as already mentioned by others |
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| May-14-18 | | agb2002: White has two knights for a bishop.
The quickest way to win is 31.Rxg6+ Kxg6 32.Qg4+ Kh7(6) 33.Rh3#. |
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| May-14-18 | | landshark: I saw the line with 32.Qf6+ and saw it mated which was good enough for me. |
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| May-14-18 | | AlicesKnight: Looks like Rxg6+ - Qg4+ - Rh3# and nothing to stop it. Black's kingdom could do with a horse. |
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| May-14-18 | | malt: 31.R:g6+ K:g6 32.Qg4+
(32.Qf6+ Kh7 33.Rh3+ Kg8 34.Rh8# )
32...Kh7 33.Rh3#
31.Rg3 also works |
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| May-14-18 | | Once: I also went for Qf6+ - one move slower but prettier. The queen anchors herself on f6 and wherever the black king runs we give mate with the rook. 31. Rxg6+ Kxg6 32. Qf6+
click for larger viewNow the king can run to h5 or h7.
32...Kh7 33. Rh3+ Kg7 34. Rh8#
click for larger view32... Kh5 33. Rh3+ Kg4 34. Rh4# (Qh4# also works, but isn't as pretty). 
click for larger viewOkay, okay, so it's one move slower than the game line and there are two variations instead of one. But I maintain that this is purttier. That's my story and I'm sticking to it. |
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| May-14-18 | | Lovuschka: I saw FSR's line. But then I just looked quickly at it. Of course 32.Qg4+ is faster. |
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| May-14-18 | | saturn2: 32 Qf6 because the queen should get to the king as close as possible; 32 Qg4 because it is quicker. |
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| May-14-18 | | schachfuchs: IMHO 32.Qf6+ instead of 32.Qg4+ spoils this instructive "lownmower" (didn't know that) pattern with two or three heavy pieces on adjacent lines/ranks towards the king. |
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May-14-18
 | | takchess: It took some time to determine whether black had a tempo to block with the rook, she can not. Went with the lawnmower mate,also looked at rook and queen to f6 check as whites second move. Happy Monday Everyone ! |
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| May-14-18 | | Wiley: I saw Qg5...any move by black...Qg6+ then Rh3++ or visa versa if Black slides his King over to the h file for some reason. Does anyone see anything wrong with this? |
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| May-14-18 | | saturn2: What comes after 25 QxNf6? |
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| May-14-18 | | Walter Glattke: I call this "roller mate", it is for pupils, who are 2 rooks ahead, often had this in school before getting adult. |
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| May-14-18 | | Walter Glattke: Google translator and Langenscheid dictionary are not perfect, the laundry has a "Heißmangel", where bed clothes get flattened through to White rollers, so I did with rooks in School, so is done here. |
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| May-14-18 | | morfishine: Its a forced mate-in-three: <31.Rxg6+> 31...Kxg6 32.Qg4+ Kh6/h7 33.Rh3# "Alexa, what is white's best 32nd move?"
"32.Qg4+ of course"
"Thank you"
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sac: 31.Rxg6+