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Jan-19-11
 | | moronovich: I have always wanted to mate in this way. |
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| Jan-19-11 | | gofer: Okay after only two seconds I see the queen sac screaming at me, but does it work? <43 Qxh6+ Kxh6> (gxh6 Rxh8#) <44 Rxh8+ Kg5>
<45 Rh5#>
Err, yes it does! Damn! What am I going to do for the rest of the day?! Work??? Boo Hoo!
Waaah! Waaah! "But I don't want to go to school".
I must have seen this one before - time to check... |
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| Jan-19-11 | | agb2002: White has a bishop for a knight.
Black threatens 43... Q(R)xB.
White can take the queen closer to the black king by pinning the pawn on g7 with 43.Rxh8+ Kxh8 44.Qxh6+ Kg8 but the black rook prevents the mate on g7 with 45.Qxg7. An obvious change in the move order yields 43.Qxh6+ Kxh6 (43... gxh6 44.Rxh8#) 44.Rxh8+ Kg5 45.Rh5#. |
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| Jan-19-11 | | mrsaturdaypants: Hmm.
43 Qh6+ wins, right?
Thursday must be the new Tuesday.
(If this is an apology for Monday, chessgames, I accept.) Time to confirm. |
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| Jan-19-11 | | Ratt Boy: Okay, I looked at this for a long time. 43.Rxh8 jumps out of the board. 43...Kxh8 44.Qxh6, Kg8 and...
I got nothing.
Played through the Capa GOTD, opened up FaceBook, went for a walk to buy the local paper, came back to the computer, was about to give up and click on the game, and...43.Qxh6+!!
43...gxh6 44.Rxh8#
43...Kxh6 44.Rxh8+, Kg5 45.Rh5#.
Amazing, how the mind works sometimes. A fresh look brings the answer!
Cute combo. I'm happy again, redeemed after missing yesterday's Qh6+. |
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Jan-19-11
 | | tobywan: Monday and Tuesday stumped me completely, but I got Wednesday in a minute. Huh? Blink, blink. I saw the longer line of defense first. I spent another five minutes going over and over both of them. Then the "roomful of grandmasters" (Heisman) were convinced. Yay! Got Wednesday! |
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| Jan-19-11 | | Lennonfan: If i cant get these puzzles strait away i just look to sac the queen! And of course it works..a forced mate in 3,easier than yesterdays.. |
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| Jan-19-11 | | Ratt Boy: <plateos>:
"I was just wondering whether it is possible to post before seeing the game?"What I do, is to click on the game link and immediately goto the bottom of the page to post. I don't have to look at the moves or others' analysis. I just post. (Or, if it's a toughie, like a Fri-Sun puzzle, I play up to the puzzle position, being careful not to look at the list of moves, and move pieces around in analysis.) |
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| Jan-19-11 | | Bonifratz: Contrary to many commenters here, I found the solutions for both Monday's and Tuesday's puzzles fairly quickly, but couldn't find today's 43. Qxh6+. I think I was too focused on 43. Rxh8+. :) |
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| Jan-19-11 | | Fuegoverde: 43 Qxh6+ Kxh6,44 Rxh8+ Kg5, 45 Rh5++!, nice and easy. |
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| Jan-19-11 | | desiobu: <An Englishman: the final mating pattern is lovely to behold.> |
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| Jan-19-11 | | mastermind7994: Found it. It seems that after 41.Qe3 Black is just done and has to sack material to stop the mate threats. |
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| Jan-19-11 | | CHESSTTCAMPS: In this middlegame attacking posiiton, white has a centralized bishop for a passive knight, a marauding rook that controls black's 8th rank, and an advanced pawn chain that threatens the black king. However, the pinned bishop is lost (black threatens 43... Qxe5+), so White must finish now or lose. After the familiar tactic 43.Rxh8+ Kxh8 44.Qxh6+ Kg8, white has no continuation and can resign. Fortunately, white has another forcing line that does the trick: 43.Qxh6+! Kxh6 (gxh6 44.Rxh8#) 44.Rxh8+ Kg5 45.Rh5#
Easier than the average Wednesday, but an unusual finale worth sharing. |
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| Jan-19-11 | | 1.e4effort: Gotta force something here, should it be the R or the Q? This is a game from 1904 - should be straightforward enough. I say sac the Q - 43. Qh6+. Black can reply by taking the Q with the K or the pawn at g7. Taking with the King puts him on the road to nowhere, as he has but 2 steps left to walk in this life:
43...Kxh6
44. Rxh8+...Kg5
45. Rh5#...1-0 |
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| Jan-19-11 | | Patriot: <Once> Thanks again for your kind words. What you said is so true. If you do good things in chess (or life), good things will happen--magic will happen. I quickly went over the game and white did something that many players do not do--push their pawn majority. My instructor noticed this is a trend recently in my blitz games. He said "You must push your majority!" Especially if that is your only advantage you must do so or it's as if there is no advantage at all. This game is a good example of this. Last night during a tournament, my opponent blundered and I had an extra pawn. What did I do? I mobilized my pawn majority and it worked! It wasn't easy because we both had a rook, but it was a matter of using the advantage I had. IMO, everyone should at least quickly play through this game and see how white used his pawn majority. This principle is a good one to know! |
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| Jan-19-11 | | CHESSTTCAMPS: <Ratt Boy: ><Amazing, how the mind works sometimes. A fresh look brings the answer! > This has happened to me a number of times when I've gotten stuck. To <Patriot>, another possible answer for slumps. <Ratt Boy> to <plateos>:
<What I do, is to click on the game link and immediately goto the bottom of the page to post.> Yes, many of the regular contributors follow this method (first entering solution into Notepad), a great way to practice deep visualization on the harder puzzles. |
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| Jan-19-11 | | TheaN: A summarized version of Once's post would be like
<Once: (...)do the good stuff, have faith, and magic will happen.Usually.>
I chuckled at the last word; in fact is all what is chess about. Even super GMs go into lines they are not 100% sure about it will win or draw them the game. Good stuff again, as... usually. |
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| Jan-19-11 | | Ghuzultyy: This one was easier than this week's Monday in my opinion. |
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| Jan-19-11 | | zooter: Surely too easy for a Wednesday....
43.Rxh8+ Kxh8 44.Qxh6+ Kg8 45.Kxg7# -- no wait, 45...Rxg7 :( Good that I give my candidate moves a second glance. So lets change the order of moves and see if it's worth anything 43.Qxh6+ and now if
43...gxh6 44.Rh8# and
43...Kxh6 44.Rh8+ Kg5 45.Rh5#
Time to see if I missed anything |
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| Jan-19-11 | | David2009: A Neumann vs Przepiorka, 1904 White 43? My first thought 43 Rxh8+ Kxh8 44 Qxh6+ (pattern recognition) loses, so does my next thought 43 Qxh6+ Kxh6 44 Rxh8+ Kg5 45 h4+?? 0-1, then I spot
the clincher 45 Rh5#. Check:
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Good discsuuions from the regulars, with a perceptive insight Dec-21-10 from Phony Benoni: <This may be a case where a knowledge of mating patterns leads a player astray.
There's a standard shot in this kind of position: 1.Rxh8+ Kxh8 2.Qxh6+ Kg8 3.Qxg7#. Except, of course, that the Re7 covers the mate in this case. Przepiorka may have seen this, and never considered that White would be able to reverse the moves on him.> |
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| Jan-19-11 | | cyclon: 43. Qxh6+ Kxh6 (-gxh6 44.Rxh8X) 44. Rxh8+ Kg5 45. Rh5X ( in other words, "cufflinks" ). |
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| Jan-19-11 | | jaapvo: If you could win like this, only once in your life... |
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| Jan-19-11 | | Killingsworth: This appears to be more of a Sunday/Monday puzzle. Two lines, forced moves. Mate in 2 or mate in 3. Many of the games from 100+ years previous appear to be compositions. |
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Jan-19-11
| | doubledrooks: With white's rook, bishop, and queen striking at black's kingside, a forcing combination could be available. And indeed it is: 43. Qxh6+ Kxh6 (...gxh6 44. Rxh8#) 44. Rxh8+ Kg5 45. Rh5# |
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| Jan-19-11 | | Once: <patriot> Yup - pawn majorities are not well understood. We sometimes get too dazzled by tactics, or obsessed by openings, that we can overlook the really simple stuff. Another one is the concept of seizing space. If you haven't got any tactics to play, then it's often worth grabbing a little bit more of the board, a file, a diagonal, an outpost or just nudging a pawn or queen a little bit higher up the board. It took me a long while to get my head around that one. Good to hear that you are back to winning ways! |
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