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Aleksandra Goryachkina vs Alfia Nasybullina
Russian Championship Higher League (Women) (2014), Vladivostok RUS, rd 3, Jun-06
Queen's Gambit Declined: General (D30)  ·  1-0

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Jun-09-14
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  bright1: Great tactical shot at the end of this game
Oct-14-15  Gregor Samsa Mendel: I found this to be easier than yesterday's puzzle.
Oct-14-15
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  Phony Benoni: Oh, you've seen this sort of thing before, as in Barnett vs Eastwood, 1949


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In this case, it's pin and fork with 8.Bb5 Qxb5 9.Nxc7+. In today's puzzle, double attack and fork: <24.Bxd5+ Qxd5 25.Ne7+>, with 24...Nxd5 25.Qxc5 as an Extra Added Attraction.

Oct-14-15  dfcx: white wins the queen with 24.Bxd5+ Qxd5 (Nxd5 25.Qxc4) 25.Ne7+ royal forks.
Oct-14-15  CHESSTTCAMPS: Material is even, but white has the more active, advanced minor pieces and a rook with more scope. An examination of checks available to white reveals the unstable protection of the black queen by the d5 pawn:

24.Bxd5+! Qxd5 (Nxd5 25.Qxc4) 25.Ne7+ Kh8 26.Nxd5 Nxd5 with Q for 2 minor pieces.

Time for review...

Oct-14-15  andrewjsacks: Very pleasing tactical shot.
Oct-14-15  M.Hassan: Even material

White to play 24.?
24.Bxd5+
<if...Nxd5 25.Qxc4 and Black Queen is lost>

24.........Qxd5
25.Ne7+ Royal Fork

Oct-14-15  diagonalley: 24.BxP+ ... a tuesday-level puzzle shurely(?!)
Oct-14-15  popescuag: How about 24. Ra4? The Black queen seems to be trapped.
Oct-14-15  Eduardo Leon: Not particularly hard to see: 24.♗xd5 removes the queen's defender with check, and, if 24...♕xd5 25.♘e7+, then black is royally forked.
Oct-14-15  morfishine: <24.Bxd5+> ends it
Oct-14-15  Moonwalker: Easier than yesterday's! Bxd5 and black's queen falls one way or another..
Oct-14-15  whiteshark: <24.Bxd5+!>, and that's it.

My thought process started with 24.Ne7+ (to cover d5) followed by 25.Bxd5+ winning the ♕ thereafter, but the text move gives black less options...

Oct-14-15  Oxspawn: Now this was a Tuesday puzzle.
24 Bd5+ Qxd5
25. Ne7+ forks the queen. White has queen for bishop and knight, which would end it. (I could still lose from there). If black takes the bishop with the knight instead of the queen then simply 25. Qxc4 which is still worse for black.
Presumably, Goryachkina saw this coming a few moves earlier (on Monday).
Oct-14-15  saturn2: Compliments to those, who saw it quickly. Me, it took me an eternity, only after having dealt with Qxf5 or QxQc4 (with the idea to push the pawn c pawn to queening)
Oct-14-15  starry2013: Bxd5 Qxd5
Ne7 takes Queen

I saw the bishop check straight away, couldn't see it doing anything.

Saw the knight check a little bit after, couldn't see that doing anything.

Had the idea of combining and it worked.

Oct-14-15  agb2002: The material is identical.

Black aims at the pawn on c5.

The knight on c6 leads to consider double attacks like 24.Bxd5+:

A) 24... Qxd5 25.Ne7+ followed by 26.Nxd5 + - [Q+P vs B+N].

B) 24... Nxd5 25.Qxd5 + - [Q+P vs B].

Oct-14-15  patzer2: Today's Wednesday puzzle solution <24. Bxd5+!> is both simple and elegant. In one neat move, it combines at least four tactical themes:

1. Double attack, by way of a Bishop fork attacking the Queen and King.

2. Decoy, with a forcing move requiring the capture of the annoying Bishop.

3. Removing the guard, by eliminating the pawn protecting the Queen (e.g. 24...Nxd5 25. Qxc4 ).

4. Knight fork, making the Queen's capture of the Bishop a losing proposition (e.g. 24...Qxd5 25. Ne7+ ).

For possible improvements for Black:

1. Instead of <4...Bd6> I prefer 4...Nf6 as in Aronian vs Ivanchuk, 2015.

2. Instead of <9...Bd7>, I prefer the popular 9...Nbd7 as in E Alekseev vs Radjabov, 1998 or the relatively untested Fritz suggestion 9...c5 =.

Black's decisive mistake, according to Fritz, was <19...e5?> allowing 19. bxc6 bxc6 20. Nb4 (+2.25 @ 20 Depth, Deep Fritz 14).

However, the Fritz alternative 19...Ne4 is not so pleasant, as Black is probably lost after 20. bxc6 bxc6 21. Ra6 Ndf6 22. Be1 Qb7 23. Qa4 Nd7 24. h3 e5 25. Qxc6 Qxc6 26. Rxc6 Ndxc5 27. Rc8 Na6 28. Nfxe5 (+1.97 @ 24 depth, Deep Fritz 14).

Oct-14-15  geeker: <Gregor Samsa Mendel: I found this to be easier than yesterday's puzzle.> Agreed.
Oct-14-15
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  Bubo bubo: White wins the queen for two minor pieces: 24.Bxd5+ removes the queen's guard and therefore forces 24...Qxd5, but now the queen has stepped right into a royal fork: 25.Ne7+.
Oct-14-15  Caissas Clown: <popescuag: How about 24. Ra4? The Black queen seems to be trapped.>

24...Qxc2

Oct-14-15  garrido: bishop x pawn won the queen
Oct-14-15  Halldor: Usually the pawn is a good defender but not here.
Oct-14-15  kevin86: Three tactics in a stew! White removes the guard of the queen- forks queen and king- then will fork king and queen with the knight.
Oct-14-15  yadasampati: <whiteshark> after 24.Ne7+ the king has to move, so 25.Bxd5 is not necessarily a check (unless the king moves to f7, which would of course be terrible)
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