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| Apr-07-08 | | Rank Amateur: Maybe I took this too far. After
23 .. Qxf3
I looked for White's best move.
24 Qc2
prevents mate. White's lost a piece, and the d-pawn is next to go. The Kibitzers who called it 'black wins a piece' saw more than Albin. |
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Apr-07-08
 | | ajk68: 13. Qa4
Is this where white goes wrong?
It seems castling would be prudent.
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| Apr-07-08 | | johnlspouge: <<jheiner> wrote: Good to be back on Monday Puzzles. :)> Amen, brother!
After Sundays, I look forward to Mondays, so I can get some rest from my "hobby" ;>) |
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| Apr-07-08 | | lipschutz: Albin's play was dreadful! If only my opponents would play moves like 14. exd5?? |
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| Apr-08-08 | | patzer2: For the Monday, April 7, 2008 puzzle solution, Black's 23...Qxf3! leads to mate-in-two. |
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| Apr-08-08 | | TheaN: 1/1
A bit late, had the solution early yesterday.
23....Qxf3! is a quiet Queen sac (for as far it's a sac) to simply pick up this Knight as: 24.gxf3 Rg6#. After other moves (which are limited for White), moves like Re8 do induce a forced Queen sac by Black: 24.... Re8 25....Qxf2+ 26.Rxf2 Re1#. Defendable, but not as easy, being already a piece down. |
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| Apr-08-08 | | TheaN: Oh, scratch that last XD, as e8 is covered by the Queen. Simple details that you only look at later, when the damage already has been done :). Black will activate his b-rook by using the d-file and win with a piece up, as White is still close to paralysed. |
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| Jun-27-08 | | jmuller: >> ajk68: 13. Qa4
>> Is this where white goes wrong?
Yes. In *The Art of the Checkmate*, Renaud and Kahn write of 13.Qa4, "The player with an inferior development should never attack. Bernstein is about to remind his worthy opponent of this principle." |
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Sep-01-10
 | | GrahamClayton: 15.de4 underestimates Black's attack. Better may have been 15.♘d4 ♗d4 16.cd4 ♕d4 17.♕c6+ ♔d8 18.♖c1 ♕b4+ 18.♔f1. |
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| Oct-18-10 | | sevenseaman: 13. Qa4 is premature. One really cannot say White didn't have time to castle; and that basically led to most of his travails. |
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| Feb-27-18 | | takchess: I thought 20...Bxf2+ might be interesting . But it leads nowhere per GM Stockfish 21.Kxf2 Qe2+ 22.Kg3 Rxb4 23.Qxc7 h5 24.Rhg1 Rg4+ 25.Kh3 g5 26.Rae1 Rh4+ 27.Kg3 Rg4+ 28.Kh3 |
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| Apr-09-18 | | Retireborn: Is anything known about the occasion of this game (tournament, date, no of players etc) or was it an offhand game? EDO has two Vienna club tournaments in 1904 but these players weren't in them, nor can it be from the thematic Kings Gambit tournament (although Albin did play in that.) |
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| Oct-22-22 | | jrredfield: 23 ... Qxf3 is a quick grab of material as well as homing in on the White K with support from the B and rooks. If White plays 24 gxf3, 24 ... Rg6# instantly mates. I did see a few other winning moves, such as 23 ... Rg6, 23 ... Rxd5 and 23 ... Rbd8. In short, White is doomed. |
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| Oct-22-22 | | Brenin: Is it Monday already? <jrredfield> said it all. |
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| Oct-22-22 | | jrredfield: <Brenin: Is it Monday already?> I guess so - about as easy as a Saturday POTD gets. It's hard to believe that White didn't see the rook mate when capturing the Q. Maybe it was rapid chess. |
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| Oct-22-22 | | mel gibson: Well - White can't take the Queen so
I suppose White did that as a way of resigning?
Stockfish 15 says:
23... Qxf3
(23. .. Qxf3 (♕e2xf3 h2-h4 ♕f3-e2 ♖h1-h3
♖d6-f6 ♕a4-d1 ♗b6xf2+ ♔g1-h1 ♕e2xd1 ♖f1xd1 ♖b8xb4 a2-a3 ♖b4-e4 ♖d1-c1
♗f2-b6 ♔h1-h2 ♖f6-d6 ♖c1-d1 ♖d6-g6 ♖d1-d2 ♗b6-c5 ♖d2-c2 ♗c5-d6+ ♔h2-g1
♖e4-d4 ♔g1-f1 ♖d4xd5 ♖h3-f3 ♖d5-d4 ♖c2-e2 ♖d4xh4 ♖e2-e8+ ♔g8-h7 ♖f3xf7
♖h4-h1+ ♔f1-e2 ♖h1-a1 ♖f7-f2 ♖g6-g4 ♖e8-a8 ♖g4-a4 ♖f2-f5 ♔h7-g6 ♖f5-f3
♖a1-a2+ ♔e2-f1) +10.46/39 263)
score for Black +10.46 depth 39. |
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Oct-22-22
 | | al wazir: Very difficult? This was dead easy. |
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| Oct-22-22 | | King.Arthur.Brazil: Monday puzzle... ♕xf3. Goodbye. |
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| Oct-22-22 | | raymondhow: Who chooses a 2008 Monday puzzle for a Saturday puzzle?? |
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| Oct-22-22 | | agb2002: Black has a bishop for a knight and a pawn.
The white king cannot move. Hence, 23... Qxf3 wins a piece (24.gxf3 Rg6#). |
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| Oct-22-22 | | mayankk06: A better puzzle may have been - what can Black possibly do to lose from here. White's position is simply grim. The King is boxed between his own pieces, one Rook is hopelessly locked at h1 and so it is laying a Rook down, the other Rook is defending a mate at f2, the Knight has nowhere to go while the Queen has too many weak squares to protect. While Qxf3 is a quick death, a cynic will probably enjoy White's agony a bit more by playing Rg6 or Rxd5. |
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| Oct-22-22 | | parch: Seems the weekend has flown by. |
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| Oct-22-22 | | AlHam: From 13 Albin is toast. |
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| Oct-22-22 | | TheaN: This took me way too long, mainly because I was looking for 'very difficult' material after Qxf3. There isn't, I solved this on a Monday back in 2008. Weird. |
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Oct-22-22
 | | chrisowen: I happy guffed it x c juvenile Qxf3 abridge lag it cobble ia hack Qxf3 it over; |
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