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| Dec-06-17 | | Huddsblue: I was wasting my time looking for a white combination here :-D It looks so natural that white will win, so all I can say is it's a great defence by black. |
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| Dec-06-17 | | gofer: I looked at Be8 when I saw the queen trap, but then realised that if the queen trap was playable, then Qxe4
made it doubly so, because the queen trap is still on if white plays Bxe4 and if white plays Qxe4 then we
simply re-take with the knight.
<32 ... Qxe4!>
<33 Bxe4 Be8>
That's about as far as I got, a little lazy perhaps... |
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| Dec-06-17 | | erimiro1: Poor White - he was sure that he's going to pick up the point, but in 2 moves it all went down. A deep bold and also rare defense-combination by GM Furman from 29th. move or even earlier. 29. Re6 looks so tempting and promising that I can't blame white for not seeing the trap. |
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| Dec-06-17 | | saturn2: The situation is tricky. The queen is attacked and NxNf6 is a big threat. I saw that with 32..QxN followed by 33 Be8 white keeps the plus piece. (Or 33 QxQ NxQ) |
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| Dec-06-17 | | agb2002: Black has a rook for a pawn.
White threatens gxh4 and Nxf6+ if the black queen ceases to control f6. The white queen doesn't have any free square. Therefore, 32... Qxe4 33.Bxe4 Be8: A) 34.Bxf6 Bxg6 wins decisive material (35.Bxg6 Rxf6 36.d6 Rxg6 37.d7 Bf6; 35.Bxg7 Kxg7). B) 34.Qxg7+ Kxg7 35.dxe6 Kg8 with the idea Nh5, Ng7, h5, Nf5, etc. C) 34.dxe6 Bxg6 35.Bxg6 Nd5 36.Bc5 Bf6 stops the e-pawn and prepares to capture it (37.Bxf8 Kxf8 38.Be4 Nc7 followed by Ke7, etc.). |
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| Dec-06-17 | | mel gibson: I didn't see that.
The computer says:
32. g3
Qxe4 (32. .. Qxe4 (♕h4xe4 ♗c2xe4 ♗d7-e8 ♕g6xg7+ ♔g8xg7 d5xe6 ♗e8-g6 ♗e4-c6
♖f8-d8 ♗d4-e5 ♗g6-e8 ♗c6-e4 a4-a3 b2xa3 ♖d8-d1+ ♔g1-g2 ♖d1-e1 f2-f3 ♖e1-e2+
♔g2-f1 ♖e2xa2 g3-g4 ♖a2xa3 f3-f4 ♖a3-e3 ♗e4-f5 h6-h5 g4-g5 ♖e3xe5 f4xe5
♘f6-d5) +3.84/20 96)
score for Black +3.84 depth 20 |
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| Dec-06-17 | | cocker: 32 ... Qxe4 for want of anything better. |
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| Dec-06-17 | | Whitehat1963: Didn’t BEGIN to see that! It’s only Wednesday? |
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| Dec-06-17 | | malt: Noticed the white Queen has no safe square, after Be8
32...Q:e4 33.B:e4 Be8 34.Q:g7+ K:g7
35.de6 Bg6 |
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| Dec-06-17 | | njchess: Not sure of the point of this puzzle. Black's moves all seem very forced to me. Black has little choice but to play Qxe4, otherwise it is mate sooner than later. Be8 is a sweet move, though not terribly difficult to see. After that, White's attack vanishes and Black is left a rook up. |
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| Dec-06-17 | | 5hrsolver: I too made a mistake with 32...Be8 |
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| Dec-06-17 | | lost in space: Haven't seen the 33. Be8! queen trap |
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| Dec-06-17 | | catlover: Didn't get the puzzle, but sure enjoyed seeing the elegant winning sequence unfold in what looked like a lost position for black. |
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| Dec-06-17 | | wooden nickel: Nevertheless, White played a brilliant game… this goes to show that lost games can also be treasurable! |
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| Dec-06-17 | | sudoplatov: I also got as far as ...Qe4 and ...Be8 but it seemed that Black was now ahead in material. |
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| Dec-06-17 | | lzromeu: Awesome
Trap of the trap
double trap
The Queen is trapped, but not, your that was |
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| Dec-06-17 | | patzer2: What I missed in my miscalculation with 32...Be8? 33. Nxf6+ Qxf6 (diagram below)
click for larger viewwas that White is not forced to make a losing exchange with 34. Bxf6? Bxg6 -+ or 34. Qxe8 Rxe8 35. Bxf6 Bxf6 -+. Instead, in the diagram position above, White simply plays the in-between move (a.k.a. zwischenzug) sequence 34. Qh7+ Kf7 35. Bxf6 Kxf6 36. dxe6 +- which wins by removing the White Queen to safety with check and then capturing the Black queen. |
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| Dec-06-17 | | BOSTER: I saw B e8,and I saw Qxe4, but could not count 2+2.Heisman'd say <a poor process for move selection>. |
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Dec-06-17
 | | Bubo bubo: Black is currently up a rook, but the attacked black queen is in trouble, as she has no save retreat: Qg4 or Qh5 fail to <removal of the guard> Nxf6+, and after 32...Qh3 33.Nxf6+ Rxf6 (33...Kh8 34.Qh7#) 33.Bxf6 mate is unstoppable. One might consider a tit-for-tat tactic by attacking the white queen in turn, but after 32...Be8 33.Qxg7+ Kxg7 34.gxh4 White will win the exchange thanks to the pin of the Nf6, and Black's material advantage evaporates. Therefore the only hope is go <kamikaze> with the black queen: 32...Qxe4! Now 33.Qxe4 Nxe4 is simply a trade of queens and knights, and after 33.Bxe4 Be8! suddenly the white queen is trapped, so Black wins her for a bishop and remains up a rook. Nice! |
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| Dec-07-17 | | kevin86: Both queens get into a sticky wicket. |
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Oct-13-20
 | | Fusilli: <Sally Simpson> This was a puzzle of the day on a Wednesday three years ago. I had suggested it to CG. The puzzle move was black's 32nd.
Now, consider this option:
Position after 28...Bd7:
click for larger viewWhite to move. And if you want to be naughty, post it on a Sunday and call it insane. How many of us would go for 29.Re6, guided by the Sunday/insane label? I am not looking into it too deep, but I surmise that to discover that it doesn't work, you actually have to see all the way to the lethal 33...Be8! Sherbakov didn't see it. (Did Furman see it when he played 28...Bd7? Who knows...) That would be interesting, right? It would be a damn hard puzzle! The computer simply says that white should play 29.Ne4 and things are even. |
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Oct-14-20
 | | Sally Simpson: ***
Hello Again Fusilli,
White to play.
click for larger viewCorrect. The Obvious 1.Ne6 Bf1!
I know of a few books puzzle that would approach the above puzzle with: a) Is 1.Ne6 a good move.
b) A bad move.
Sometimes it is A sometimes B. This sows seeds of doubt and forces you to check your lines. Standard White/Black puzzle book would set the question after 1.Ne6 has been played. 
click for larger viewI think we both agree the first position is more beneficial. In fact going further back in the first diagram. Did Black set up the trap 1.Ne6? with their previous move. *** |
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Oct-14-20
| | Fusilli: <Sally Simpson> Doesn't Nunn do that, or am I confused? I have Nunn's excellent puzzle book in my car. I haven't looked at it in a long time. I'll have to check. In your diagrammed position, there is some chance that white smells something must be wrong, since 1.Ne6 is glaringly obvious. How about the black rook on e8 instead of f8? Now white would "discover" that 1.Ne6 Rxe6? wins him the exchange after 2.Rd8+! What if black moves the threatened rook instead? Well, 1.Ne6 would likely be the best move anyway (if 1...Bf1 didn't exist), since killing the g7 looks good for business. |
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Oct-14-20
| | Sally Simpson: ***
Hi Fusilli,
Yes some books go that way, give you choices, but a lot do not. (or did not.) Interestingly John Nunn in the January 1993 BCM (page 26) says puzzles that are in magazines (and I must presume, also in books)
are not a good way to improve your tactical ability because you know something special is in the position and it is too easy
to spot the idea. (for John maybe, I struggle on the tougher ones, especially if it's a not a checkmate.) John advocates playing through complete games from an Informator and seeing
if you spot any missed shots. I agree as this method also tunes up your 'sixth sense'. Though it can be hit or miss, there might not be anything to get your teeth into. (cue some computer jockey who will advise puttingt he game though a computer to see if it finds anything. Some do without even looking at the game and think they have learned something.) *** |
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Oct-14-20
 | | perfidious: <Geoff....John Nunn in the January 1993 BCM....says puzzles that are in magazines (and I must presume, also in books) are not a good way to improve your tactical ability because you know something special is in the position and it is too easy to spot the idea....> This is an excellent point in many cases; on the other hand, Tal was known to look at Guess-the-Move type puzzles during his travels, and he was no milksop and certainly saw every combinative motif there ever was. |
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