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Mar-05-18
 | | gawain: This is terrific. The immediate...Qe1+ does not work but if Black begins with 37...Qe4+ White is helpless. |
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| Mar-05-18 | | stst: An Installment Loan, need 2 stages to finish:
37........Qe4+
38.Ka1 (only sq.) Qe1+ again
39.NxQ but then RxN# as the K smothers himself, too deep to get out. |
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| Mar-05-18 | | agb2002: Black has a bishop for a knight and a pawn.
White threatens Rxe7.
Black wins with 37... Qe4+ 38.Ka1 Qe1+ 39.Nxe1 Rxe1#. The direct sacrifice 37.. Qe1+ would work if Black's c-pawn were on c4. |
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| Mar-05-18 | | AlicesKnight: Not too hard once you see the ....e4 check first. Somebody please explain why not 34....Nxh4. |
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| Mar-05-18 | | Boerboel Guy: <Gregor Samsa Mendel: 37 Rxh7 was a horrible blunder, especially for a correspondence game.>
Exactly! and in fact 37 gxh7+! wins for White... |
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Mar-05-18
 | | perfidious: Most likely, the score has a typo and White's 34th move was Qh3 instead. |
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| Mar-05-18 | | gofer: This is a <correspondence game> and white played <37 Rxh7??> That is really bizarre!
<37 gxh7+ ...>
37 ... Kf8
38 h8=Q+ Kf7
39 Qh7+ Kf8
40 Qxf4+ mating
37 ... Kg7
38 h8=Q+ Rxh8 (Kf7 Qxf4+ mating)
39 Qf7+ Kxh6
40 Qf6+ +-
37 ... Kf7
38 Qxf4+ Kg7
39 h8=Q+ Rxh8
39 Rxh8 Kxh8
40 Qe5+ +-
<37 ... Kh8>
<38 Qxf4 ...>
White is winning this at a canter. How does someone miss the mating
threat (after <37 Rxh7??>) during a correspondence game?! |
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| Mar-05-18 | | goodevans: <34...Nf8??>, <35.Bxh7+??>, <36...Qe7??>, <37.Rxh7??>. Practically all of the last few moves before the finale were outright blunders. I can only imagine that both players were in severe time trouble! ;o) |
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| Mar-05-18 | | gofer: <perfidious:> You must be right! It's a really good explanation for the difficulties that white was facing at <37 ...?> and explains everything! |
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| Mar-05-18 | | SpamIAm: <goodevans>, they must have FedExed all of their last five moves. ;) |
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| Mar-05-18 | | morfishine: First <37...Qe4+> forces the White King into the corner, then <38...Qe1+> forces mate ***** |
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| Mar-05-18 | | malt: Starting with 37...Qe4+ 38.Ka1 Qe1+ 39.N:e1 R:e1# <Check'm & Wreck'm> 37.gh7+ would be better for White |
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| Mar-05-18 | | zb2cr: Mate in three, forced. 37. ... Qe4+; 38. Ka1, Qe1+; 39. Nxe1, Rxe1#. |
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| Mar-05-18 | | sorokahdeen: Ditto on the previous comments re: "Correspondence? Really?" Let me add: "That wasn't blitz? Are you sure?!" |
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| Mar-05-18 | | mqhelisi: Zwischenzug pure breed! |
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| Mar-05-18 | | zborris8: Vides videsit echo man vintsvides man tridusit. Vimus curmudgle videsvints Vides vintsmarquisyogis vides vimus flips videsit dudes hatusit, it swinus Vides vides flavs vimusvasts vides dudes. Tridus dudesit bulks flak fulco mack vintsvimus vides vimus Tridusvimushiats. Vimus bulks vintsvimus, winter c4?? Marquis try dushat is what ushat hints bang!! Vints tridus vints!! Sucksuk mac schlongschlong. Gobusit's vides, vintsvides videsmarquis' vintsbangs. Flags vimus flipsvasts Vides bulks hints vintsit'svasts vimus knight's videsits. Vides vile vimus fife curvy it hint shiat: Qe4+ sew dirty harrys hints vimusit's vides hatusits. |
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| Mar-05-18 | | zborris8: Oops. Wrong account. j/k! |
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Mar-05-18
 | | Stonehenge: The year 1987 is probably wrong. White may be L H Deelman and Black Dirk Bleijkmans or A Bleijkmans. |
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| Mar-05-18 | | whiteshark: <lost in space: Most complicated was to find out that it is black to move.> Exactly the same thing happened to me... |
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| Mar-05-18 | | Arn Zufeld: I love Monday’s too. That’s probably the reason I only achieved a Grandpatzer rating... |
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Mar-05-18
 | | Breunor: When we evaluate the moves after 34, I'm almost positive Perfidious is correct and white played 34 Qh3 and not Qh4. Even a 900 player would see either Nx h4 or Qxf5ch. Some of the subsequent moves then, although not best, aren't crazy. Note that 37 gxh7ch is still lost (Stockfish shows -6.6) but it is better than mate in 3. |
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| Mar-05-18 | | landshark: Could today's puzzle be the first Monday ever that's both very easy AND insane? |
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| Mar-05-18 | | King.Arthur.Brazil: Monday puzzle always make me begin the week laughing. Today is so easy that, I have to see why did white have being check mated, while he is so near to black king neck. So I see other friends talking the same: how can one fall on a 3 moves check-mate, with a move Txh7 in a postal chess game? I guess that he just MAKE any fool move, thinking "I already winned".
Everyday, I feel that when I was a young chess player, I could have won some master title, as my chess is stronger than most of the these chess players I see on every monday puzzle here. |
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| Mar-06-18 | | patzer2: Yesterday's Monday puzzle solution was a back rank mate-in-three starting with 37...Qe4+! -+. The decisive mistake was 37. Rxh7?? allowing 37...Qe4+! Instead, 37. gxh7+! +- (+8.17 @ 31 ply, Stockfish 9) is a crushing win for White/ |
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Feb-17-21
| | Stonehenge: Changed the players, the year and the score.
The game can be found in <Schaakschakeringen, May 1987>, although they made the same mistake with 34. Qh4??. |
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