Jan-04-21
 | | FSR: 49...Rxa3+ 50.Kxa3 Qa4# |
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| Jan-04-21 | | Nullifidian: 49...♖xa3+ 50. ♔xa3 ▢ ♕a4# |
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| Jan-04-21 | | Walter Glattke: 49.-Rxa3+ 50.Kxa3 Qa4# |
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| Jan-04-21 | | lost in space: What the others said |
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| Jan-04-21 | | DrGridlock: A tricky Monday puzzle ... I wasted at least 15 seconds trying to make a Qxb2 queen sac work. |
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| Jan-04-21 | | goldfarbdj: "It's Monday. Sac the queen. Okay, that doesn't go anywhere. How about the rook? There we go." |
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| Jan-04-21 | | drollere: i lamented that the K seemed to have an escape square at b1 if the Q gave check at b3, and the solution appeared immediately: force the K onto a3. |
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Jan-04-21
 | | An Englishman: Good Evening: The entire game has its interesting bits. That Black Rook in particular survives quite a few attempted sacrifices. |
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| Jan-04-21 | | Brenin: The R, after a charmed life, eventually succeeds in sacrificing itself with 49 ... Rxa3+. After 47 g5 Qc2 White's fate was sealed; 47 Qf3, trying to force Qs off, e.g. 47 ... Qc2 48 Qd1, would have given some hope of survival. |
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| Jan-04-21 | | Damenlaeuferbauer: After long thinking, the strong Armenian GM Hovhannes Gabuzyan finally found the mate in 2 moves with the nice rook sacrifice 49.-,Rxa3+! 50.Kxa3,Qa4#. This game shows how to play my beloved Najdorf Sicilian with the black pieces, even if you are not a genius like Mikhail Tal, Bobby Fischer or Garry Kasparov (the 3 greatest Najdorf players of all times)! |
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| Jan-04-21 | | agb2002: Black has a bishop for a knight.
White threatens Nxc2.
The pawn on b5 makes a quick mate possible: 49... Rxa3+ 50.Kxa3 Qa4#. |
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| Jan-04-21 | | Messiah: This is extremely easy, indeed, but the easiness does not ruin its looks! |
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| Jan-04-21 | | boringplayer: Ah, Monday! |
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| Jan-04-21 | | stacase: The Rook sacrifice was obvious, but I kept looking at 50.b4+ until 50.Kxa3 (forced) was actually played THEN I saw 50...Qa4# This is another one where White should have tossed it in after 49...Rxa3+ |
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| Jan-04-21 | | Oxspawn: White seems to have played very passively. Was there an alternative? What about 29. Rxd6 Kxd6 30. Qf6+ followed by Qxf7....? Is there some counterplay? At worst it is still only 0-1. |
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| Jan-04-21 | | zb2cr: Forced mate in two, with 49. ... Rxa3; 50. Kxa3, Qa4#. |
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Jan-04-21
 | | chrisowen: Rag guv Rxa3+ flicks addify nib bubbled its box vid greece act it 2 move mug hat tasking ham king hop requiem ivory light woe bone of contention rook fun cup c3 jovial its tomes ivory wick brilly ivory family ditch paw ivory cobras ace it add gab ivory got about ignoble Rxa3+ fit bar? |
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| Jan-04-21 | | TheaN: Yada yada mate in two etc. No real point discussing Black's final combination. The game however is a good example of keeping pressure in a Sicilian... from both sides. White was doing alright, not great, up til 28.c3?! where it's <visible> Black's getting the better of the game by invading with the queen. After 28....Qe3 Black has the better pieces and White's game dwindled from there. <Oxspawn: White seems to have played very passively. Was there an alternative? What about 29. Rxd6 Kxd6 30. Qf6+ followed by Qxf7....? Is there some counterplay? At worst it is still only 0-1.>
29.Rxd6 is an attempted 'game muddying' going very bad after 29....Bxe4+ 30.Ka1 Kxd6, given 31.Qxf6+ Kc7 32.Qxe5+ Kb7 -+ and only the queen isn't going to save White. Mind that Bxe4+ isn't key (despite free) given that Black has escape squares on b8 and d7 in critical situations. |
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| Jan-04-21 | | saturn2: Queen and rook attacked Black mates in two moves. |
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| Jan-04-21 | | Oxspawn: Thanks <TheaN>. At least I would have got an early supper. |
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| Jan-04-21 | | AlicesKnight: It's Monday, so what shall we sacrifice? Queen? - no good. What about the Rook? Ah! ..... Rxa3+ forces the capture, whereupon Qa4 does the job. |
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Jan-04-21
 | | gawain: The first move I looked at was 49...Rxa3+. So I did not have to look any further. I like puzzles such as this one in which a friendly piece ends up blocking the king's escape square. |
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| Jan-04-21 | | Cheapo by the Dozen: a-file instead of h-file.
That twist added embarrassingly long to my solving time. ;) |
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| Jan-04-21 | | ajile: I got it after about 5 minutes but I doubt I would find this over the board in a real game. |
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Kibitzing
sac: 49...Rxa3+
