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Evgenija Ovod vs Adina-Maria Hamdouchi
European Championship (Women) (2001), Warsaw POL, rd 8, Apr-30
Modern Defense: Queen Pawn Fianchetto (A40)  ·  1-0

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White to move. Last: 23...Nh7
ANALYSIS [x]
Notes by Stockfish 11 (minimum 6s/ply)better is 1...d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Bg5 dxc4 5.e4 c5 6.dxc5 = -0.06 (37 ply)= +0.48 (34 ply) after 2.e4 Bg7 3.Nf3 d6 4.c4 Bg4 5.Be2 Bxf3 6.Bxf3 Nc6 2...Nf6 3.Nc3 d5 4.cxd5 Nxd5 5.Nf3 Bg7 6.e4 Nxc3 = +0.06 (36 ply) ⩲ +0.88 (31 ply)better is 3...Bg7 4.Nc3 Nf6 5.e4 d6 6.Bd3 O-O 7.Nf3 e6 8.h3 = +0.37 (33 ply) ⩲ +0.99 (33 ply) after 4.h4 Bg7 5.h5 d6 6.Nc3 Bxc3+ 7.bxc3 Qa5 8.Qc2 gxh5 7...d6 8.fxe4 e5 9.Nf3 h6 10.Be2 Qe7 11.Qd3 Qg7 12.O-O = +0.33 (30 ply) ⩲ +1.41 (33 ply) 8...d6 9.Bd3 O-O 10.Bg5 Ng4 11.Nf3 Nd7 12.Qd2 Nde5 ⩲ +0.85 (32 ply)+- +3.53 (33 ply) 10.d6 a5 11.Nh3 Ra6 12.Qc2 O-O 13.O-O Rxd6 14.Bxg6 Kg7 +- +3.54 (30 ply) ± +1.79 (31 ply) 11.Qc2 Kd7 12.Bh6 Kc7 13.h3 Nbd7 14.O-O Re8 15.Ng5 Ne5 +- +2.67 (33 ply) ⩲ +1.05 (35 ply) 12.Qc2 Bxf3 13.Rxf3 Rg8 14.Bf4 Nbd7 15.Re1 Qb6 16.Re6 ± +1.65 (34 ply) 12...Nbd7 13.Qc2 Qc7 14.Ng5 Ne5 15.Nxh7 O-O-O 16.Bxg6 ⩲ +0.63 (34 ply) ± +1.51 (35 ply) 13...Qd7 14.Qc2 Bxf3 15.Rxf3 Na6 16.Bg5 O-O-O 17.Qb2 Nb8 ⩲ +1.00 (34 ply)+- +3.80 (33 ply)24...a6 25.Qg7# +- mate-in-11-0

6rk/p1q1p2n/3pN2Q/1bpP4/2n5/2P4P/P5P1/2B2RK1 w - - 2 24
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Kibitzer's Corner
Nov-03-09
Premium Chessgames Member
  FSR: Nice game, very aggressively played by White.
Nov-06-23  Lambda: Someone has been fooled into making this a puzzle by the somewhat spectacular last move, but Rf7 mates just as easily. Even just Nxc7 is overwhelmingly winning.
Nov-06-23  Mayankk: 24 Nxc7 and we win the Queen. Need we look further?

Definitely very easy. Not sure if it can be called a puzzle though.

Nov-06-23  Shrinarayanan: I had 24.Rc7. lame puzzle. Great game for white
Nov-06-23
Premium Chessgames Member
  GoldenKnight: <Lambda: Someone has been fooled into making this a puzzle by the somewhat spectacular last move, but Rf7 mates just as easily.>

Not quite. It takes an extra move as Black then has Rxg2+.

Not so lame after all.

Nov-06-23
Premium Chessgames Member
  al wazir: <Shrinarayanan: I had 24.Rc7.> I see I'm not the only one who suffers from chess dyslexia. It comes from having used English notation for years, e.g., 24. RB7.

Unless you think in Russian, in which case 'c' stands for "Слон" ("slon," meaning "elephant"), the Russian name for the bishop.

Nov-06-23
Premium Chessgames Member
  Korora: I got it right away. Crow to f8 and either the ♕ or the ♔ goes on the next move.
Nov-06-23  Cecco: The only argument for 24. Rf8, against 24. Rf7, is that it prevents what native English speaking kibitzers I think call "spite checks".
Nov-06-23  saturn2: The black queen is hanging but27.Rf8 Qc8 28.Qg7 is esthetic
Nov-06-23  daladno: As others said, not actually a puzzle. I went for Rf7.
Nov-06-23  TheaN: Rf8 is technically best, as it prevents Rxg2+ and Ne3+, but those moves do nothing. Rf7 allows the spite checks but nothing else. Nxc7 is like Black walked into a Saw movie and has to endure the pain of humiliation with a low pitched "I want to continue the game" from White with Hello Zepp on in the background.... (I may have been to Saw X this weekend :>)
Nov-06-23  Brenin: Joining this discussion late, due to an untimely power-cut, I recommend 24 Ng5: it's mate in five, allowing Black the opportunity of expending almost all of his forces with spite checks: 24 ... Rxg5 25 Rf7 Rxg2+ 26 Kxg2 Ne3+ 27 Bxe3 Bf1+ 28 Kxf1 and finally 29 Qxh7 mate. Unfortunately, Black's Q is too poorly placed to throw herself on the bonfire.
Nov-06-23
Premium Chessgames Member
  Check It Out: Went with 24.Rf7. Looked impossible to stop mate on h7, even with those pesky spite checks.
Nov-06-23  alussinan: <al wazir><Shrinarayanan> Chess dyslexia happens to me very often too. Don't know why.
Nov-06-23  Damenlaeuferbauer: After long thinking, the Russian IM/WGM Evgenija Ovod finally found the mate in 2 moves with the nice rook sacrifice 24.Rf8!,Rxf8 (24.-,Qb8/Qc8/Qd8 25.Qg7#) 25.Qg7#.
Nov-06-23
Premium Chessgames Member
  chrisowen: Mob digs its rip q Rf8 glock arrive its bob its banal its back u gi c Rf8 cub;
Nov-06-23  jffun1958: I saw 24. Nf8.
This looks good at the first glance, but Black has
24. ... e5!
Nov-06-23  Cellist: 24. Nf8 also works. Engine gives it +8.
Nov-06-23
Premium Chessgames Member
  takebackok: Had to think Monday, 24. Rf8 lights out.

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