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| May-29-12 | | VincentL: I soon looked at 38.....Qg3+ 39. Rxg3 fxg3+ but didn't notice it was mate ! |
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| May-29-12 | | gambler: unfortunately, it took me almost 10 minutes to find it, that being said, it is a mate in two. |
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| May-29-12 | | kevin86: Is this week backwards? Or because of the holiday...queen sac on Tuesday Qg3+ and mates with the pawn next turn. |
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| May-29-12 | | dogworks: Even without Black's queen, the king is "stalemated" or smothered. It's been said in this column long ago: "If a king is stalemated, look for a check". |
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| May-29-12 | | hugogomes: So many sacrifices to consider, but Qg3+! is the easiest to calculate: mate the next move. |
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| May-29-12 | | PhilFeeley: I always love a good queen sac. |
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| May-29-12 | | BOSTER: <SimonWebbsTiger> <A few comments about the game>. Thanks for the useful information. I like to read your comments. |
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| May-29-12 | | dragon player: White's pieces are discoordinated. Black should be able
to exploit this. This move forces mate:
38...Qg3+
39.Rxg3 fxg3#
A nice one.
Time to check.
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Right.
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| May-29-12 | | bachbeet: Got it. |
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| May-29-12 | | goodevans: 37...Ne2 forks <all three> of white's major pieces but the win comes without the N capturing any of them. Nice. |
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| May-29-12 | | Once: Many and the various are the multiverses.
Clever blokes in white coats do say that whenever a choice is made, a near identical universe is created starting afresh from that point. And lo we have a multitude of multiverses, all inhabiting the same point in time and space. Each then takes its own path, sometimes finding ways to massively different futures. Today I had cereal for breakfast. But an infinite number of multiverses were created where I had toast, full english with all the trimmings, and eggs benedict with a glass of champagne on the side. I am particularly jealous of the multiverse where I was awoken by the entreaties of my 19 year old nymphomaniac bride imploring me to "fly her to the moon one more time". How do you like your eggs? Unfertilised. I am not quite sure what to make of today's puzzle, where I managed to spin off oooh at least a dozen new multiverses. Phony's Qg2+? Yup, looked at that one. All of the knight forkeries? Yup. Qxg1+? Check.
Nxf3+? check.
Ng2? check.
Who knows what will happen in those multiverses? Perhaps in one man will be visited by aliens and learn the secrets of the universe. In another we will destroy the planet in an orgy of overconsumption and war, where mankind is o'erthrown by the pitiless dominions of the termite. To people living on those multiverse, a humble apology. We might have avoided all of this if I had spotted Qg3+ straight away. Easy? Not for this soldier of the multiverse. |
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| May-29-12 | | dark.horse: I traversed most (not all, unfortunately!) of <once>'s multiverses today, but once I realized the WK was stalemated the right solution came quickly enough. |
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| May-29-12 | | Nullifidian: A Monday on Tuesday.
38... ♕g3+ 39. ♖xg3 ♙fxg3# |
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| May-29-12 | | LJLMETAL: That is actually the Mar Del Plata Variation of the King's Indian Defense! |
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| May-29-12 | | RookFile: In the end, that e2 knight is a magnificent piece. It forks everything and is a vital part of the final checkmate. |
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| May-29-12 | | HardDazedKnight: Beautiful... just beautiful... lowly pawn FTW! |
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| May-30-12 | | stst: Q-sac but not by brute:
Two N's in excellent positions, cannot squander it. Go soft like this:
38.... Qg3+
39.RxQ PxR#
K cannot take because of N, cannot go g2, nor g1, also because of N's!! |
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Dec-09-24
 | | chrisowen: Thank-you g3 brilliant xxx |
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| Dec-09-24 | | whiteshark: <38...Qg3+ 39.Rxg3 fxg3#> and game over. |
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| Dec-09-24 | | TheaN: Thought I'd seen this before but I didn't post in '12. Maybe saw it but didn't post... anyways, <38....Qg3+> is a tad bit hidden especially if you look at other moves, <39.Rxg3 fxg3#> is beautiful nonetheless. |
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| Dec-09-24 | | Damenlaeuferbauer: After long thinking, the British GM William Watson, whose playing style the immortal Boris Spassky once compared with a drunken man with a machine gun, finally found the mate in 2 moves with the nice queen sacrifice 38.-,Qg3+! 39.Rxg3,fxg3#. This is exactly the way, how to play the Mar del Plata variation of the classical KID with the black pieces! Did I already mention, that I love Mondays? |
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| Dec-09-24 | | mel gibson: Good Monday puzzle - thanks CG. |
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| Dec-09-24 | | Halldor: It took me a while to find this, but thanks to the Monday tradition of sacking the Queen, I finally found the solution. |
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Dec-09-24
 | | HeMateMe: I think Watson would need the help of Holmes in tracking G. Burgess and the other 'Cambridge Five ' |
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Dec-10-24
 | | noads4me: I saw this game recently and put it in my checkmate file. |
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