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| May-31-17 | | Walter Glattke: The Bangles and the Boom Town Rats don't like Mondays, but we do this.
I just remembered to 1963, we played School chess, and a pupil said to his opposite, he would not set him mete, before, he would take off all his chessmen, then finally mate. I saw,
here we can play cruel chess after
24.Rd8. |
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May-31-17
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| May-31-17 | | BxChess: 0 for 3 so far this week. I've got a bad feeling about tomorrows duel. |
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| May-31-17 | | gofer: Okay, we have <"the hard way or the easy way - which do you want?">. The easy way...
24 Rh8+ Bxh8
25 Rd8 Qxd8 (Kg7 Qxh8#)
26 Qh7+ Kf8
27 Qf7#
Dummy here, chose the hard way...
24 Rd8+ Bf8 (Qxd8 transposes)
25 Rh8+ Kg7
26 Qh6+ Kf6
27 Rdxf8+ Qxf8
28 Rxf8 Ke7
29 Qg7+ Kd6
30 Rf6+ Be6
31 Rxe6# |
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| May-31-17 | | saturn2: Black has more material but both 24 Rd8 and 24 Rh8 save the point for white. |
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| May-31-17 | | leRevenant: <diagonalley: wow! ... easy peasy for a wednesday :-)> Yes, easiest so far, this week. |
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| May-31-17 | | et1: given the theme of the week this was easy, never 2 without 3... :) |
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| May-31-17 | | cocker: 24 Rh8+ mates in 4, 24 Rd8+ mates in 7. I went for the slow one. |
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| May-31-17 | | Moszkowski012273: If black had found 17...Bxg4 he MIGHT of held this game. |
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| May-31-17 | | morfishine: Both 24.Rd8+ & 24.Rh8+ win
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| May-31-17 | | nalinw: <BxChess> I found a marvelous forced mate after 24. Rd8+ Bf8 25. Rh8+ Kg7 but this box is too small to contain it. Fermat's ghost? I love it! |
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| May-31-17 | | Iwer Sonsch: 24.Rh8+ Bxh8 25.Rd8+ Qxd8 26.Qxh8+ Kxh8 27.Nf7+ and 28.Nxe8 is beautiful, but lacklustre. However, 26.Qh7+ Kg8 27.Qf7# is still beautiful, but not quite as lacklustre as the aforementioned line. 24...Bxh8 is forced. 25...Kg8 or 25...Qf6 allow mate in 1 with respectively 26.Qh7# or 26.Qxh8#. |
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| May-31-17 | | Iwer Sonsch: After 24.Rd8+ Bf8 25.Rh8+ Kg7
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Stockfish indicates 2 unique ways to mate in 5, and one of them even splits into 3 more unique ways on move 28. Can you find them all? |
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| May-31-17 | | mel gibson: 24 Rd8+ wins - mate in 6
24 Rh8+ wins - mate in 4. |
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| May-31-17 | | Pasker: Both Rd8+ and Rh8+ wins one mate in 4 other mate 6. So Rh8 is the best move here. Finding the shortest mate is not always an easy task to do. Its very important especially in blitz games. |
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| May-31-17 | | paavoh: For some reason, 24. Rd8 felt the easier way although the path to mate was longer. Perhaps deflection of the BQ was the factor. |
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| May-31-17 | | Marmot PFL: Sacrifice both rooks, move order doesn't matter except that Rh8+ is faster. |
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| May-31-17 | | kevin86: Open the h-file and lure the queen away! |
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| May-31-17 | | AlicesKnight: <Iwer Sonsh - After 24.Rd8+ Bf8 25.Rh8+ Kg7
Stockfish indicates 2 unique ways to mate in 5, and one of them even splits into 3 more unique ways on move 28.
Can you find them all?> Possibly, but Stockfish can keep them; I have chocloate and profiteroles to eat and I find this more diverting..... |
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| May-31-17 | | Walter Glattke: I remember to cruel chess for the
Stockfish/Iwer indication: if black does not resign, one can take all his other chessmen first before setting mate. |
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| May-31-17 | | RandomVisitor: If black had played 17...Bxg4 things might have been different: 18.hxg6 hxg6 19.Bh6 Bxf3 20.Qe3 Bxd1 21.Qg5 and maybe black can survive the attack
click for larger viewStockfish_17052608_x64_modern: <3 minutes computer time> <+0.27/37 21...Rf7 22.Qxg6 Qc8> 23.Rg1 Qf5 24.Qxf5 Rxf5 25.Rxg7+ Kh8 26.Rxe7 Rg8 27.Rxb7 Bh5 28.b3 Rf7 29.Rxf7 Bxf7 30.Bd2 Bg6 31.Nxc5 Rf8 32.Be3 Rf7 33.Kb2 Kg7 34.a4 Bf5 35.a5 Kf6 36.Kc3 Rg7 37.Kb4 Bg4 38.Ne4+ Kg6 39.a6 Bc8 40.Kc5 Bxa6 41.Kxc6 Bb7+ 42.Kd6 Bxe4 43.dxe4 Kf6 44.c4 |
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| May-31-17 | | whiteshark: But we also learned something important during this morning: We know again what really counts in life: genuine interest in chess! |
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| May-31-17 | | The Kings Domain: Fun and easy, my choice was 24) Rd8. |
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| May-31-17 | | The Kings Domain: Only to realize that doesn't lead to mate. Sheesh, missed this one. |
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| Jun-01-17 | | Ninja702: I found Rd8 Bf8 Rh8 Kg7 Qh7 Kf6 Rdf8 Kg5 Qh4# |
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sac: 24.Rh8+
