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| Apr-15-11 | | kevin86: I really nailed this one: The brilliant sequende (that white missed) was 32 ♘f6 (Δ ♕h7#) gxf6 33 ♖g4 (Δ ♕g8#) fxg4 34 ♕h7# kismet |
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Apr-15-11
 | | FSR: 32.Nf6!! gxf6 33.Rg4!! fairly screams out to be played. Don't see what Black can do, unless he wants to throw away his queen with 33...Qd4+ 34.Rxd4. |
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| Apr-15-11 | | benjinathan: I would have played Nf6, but it would have been purely speculative. |
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Apr-15-11
| | FSR: Wow, the Fed really lucked out. I saw the winning line within 30 seconds. Sometimes I see them, sometimes I don't. It helps that there are no variations of substance to calculate. It's just game over. |
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| Apr-15-11 | | dzechiel: <<Phony Benoni> ... The good news is it's mate in three. The bad news...> Of course, the bishop check. <duh!> |
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| Apr-15-11 | | eSpade: I saw the solution -
32.Nf6! gxf6
33.Rg4! ...
What surprised me is that white lost the point because he missed the tactic :( |
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Apr-15-11
 | | Check It Out: 32. Nf6
threatens mate on h7 and has to be taken,
32...gxf6
33. Rg4
again threatens mate on g8 and can't be taken due to the bishop/queen battery on the a1-h8 diagonal mating on h7. If black's DSB moves to protect g8, then mate on g7. It looks all over.Let's see how I did.
Got it, but poor white lost. |
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| Apr-15-11 | | Once: <Tacitus: Once, the white knight cannot be taken & 31...e5 played due to mate in 2: R:B+ and Qg7 mate.>
click for larger viewThis is the position we would have got after 29...fxe4 30. Bxe4 Bxe4 31. Rxe4 e5. And as <JuliusDS> has already said 32. Rxf8+ doesn't work because black can reply with 32...Qxf8. 
click for larger viewAnd in the words of the hymn, all is safely gathered in. <JuliusDS> On the other hand, if white recaptures with the rook (29...fxe4 30. Rxe4), we get to here: 
click for larger viewAnd now either 30...e5 or 30...Qc5 31. Kh1 Qg5 forces the exchange of queens, white's mating attack fizzles and black keeps his extra material. |
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| Apr-15-11 | | JohnBoy: I got this one right away, and in general have thought that this week was pretty easy. That said, knowing this as a puzzle means that there should be some sort of solution. I sincerely doubt that I could have whooped off the winning sequence OTB. It's a shame that white lost this, but I suppose something like this can be said about almost any game. Fedo showed some pluck. |
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| Apr-15-11 | | ZUGZWANG67: B is a pawn up but W has much more in compensation. He has a mating attack against the BK. Particularly h7 is vulnerable. While observing the position I also noticed White's pressure against g7 AND g8, plus the latent threat of the WB. 32.Nf6! (threatening mate next move) 32...gxf6 (forced) 33.Rg4! Now yhe only way B can avoid mate at g8 (beside 33...Qd4) or g7 after 33...Be7 is 33...fxg4, but 34.Qh7 mate shows the virtue of the WB. let's see.
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And he missed it. |
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| Apr-15-11 | | ZUGZWANG67: Gheee! B won it! |
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| Apr-15-11 | | beenthere240: I had a strong feeling that Nf6 was the right start, but the Rg4 finesse eluded me. I never saw that the f5 pawn was pinned by the mate threat on h7. |
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Apr-15-11
 | | takchess: Very cool double edge position I like white chose rg4 followed by the Knight move. I calculated the correct Nf6 as well.. good choice of a puzzle. |
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Apr-15-11
 | | LIFE Master AJ: Did anyone here ever subscribe to the paper, "Player's Chess News" ... back in the day? |
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Apr-15-11
| | FSR: <LMAJ> Yes, I think I got every issue ever published. Then I got the bound volumes (which I still have) and threw out the yellowing originals. |
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| Apr-15-11 | | MaczynskiPratten: A remarkable example of the importance of playing moves in the right order; 32 Rg4??? turns 1-0 into 0-1. Rather tragic, when White was an IM on the verge of scoring a great upset victory over a GM... Also shows the importance of playing the most forcing move. I thought it seemed very easy for a Friday because it was a clear mate in 3 unless Black throws material hopelessly. But you do have to spot it ... I wonder if White was either in time trouble or was so excited by the possibilities after "the good move" 32 Rg4 that he failed to "look for something even better". |
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| Apr-15-11 | | qauz: I stared at this thing for a good 5 minutes before the mixture of ideas I had turned into Nf6! |
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| Apr-15-11 | | Rosbach: Pretty move, very pretty. |
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| Apr-15-11 | | wals: Rybka 4 x 64
White was struggling to keep his head above water a long way before move.32.White errors
d 18 : 3 min
23.e5, -1.64. Best,
1.  (-0.81): 23.Bd3 Be7 24.Rb1 Qa7+ 25.Kh1 Rb8 26.Nge2 Rxb1 27.Rxb1 Rc8 28.Nc1 Nf6 29.Nb3 Ng4 30.Nd1 Rb8 31.Qe2 h5 32.h3 Nf6 33.e5 2. (-0.90): 23.Kh1 Qb4 24.Bd3 Nb6 25.Rc1 Bd7 26.Nb1 a5 27.Qe2 Na4 28.e5 Red8 29.Ne4 dxe5 30.fxe5 Nb2 31.Nbd2 Nxd3 32.Qxd3 Bc6 33.Qe3 Bxe4 34.Nxe4 d 17 : 6 min :
24.fxe5, -2.55. Best,
1.  (-1.64): 24.f5 Bb4 25.fxe6 Rxe6 26.Kh1 Qb7 27.Re2 Nb6 28.a3 Bxa3 29.Ba2 Bc5 (26...Nd7, - 1.55, an error by Black. Best, Kh8, or Bd6, -2.30.) d 18 : 6 min :
29.Ne4, -3.27. Best,
1.  (-0.68): 29.Ne2 Kh8 30.Nef4[] Ne5 31.Qg3[] Nxc4 32.Bd3[] Nb2 33.Bxa6 Ra8[] 34.Ng6+ Kh7 35.Nf6+ gxf6 36.Nxf8+[] Qxf8 37.Qc7+[] Qg7 38.Qxc6[] Qa7+[] 39.Rf2 Qxa6 40.Qc7+ Kg8 41.Qg3+ Kf7 42.Rxb2[] Qa7+ 43.Kh1 Rab8 44.Rxb8 2. (-0.68): 29.Nd5 Kh8 30.Ndf4[] Ne5 31.Qg3[] Nxc4 32.Bd3[] Nb2 33.Bxa6 Ra8[] 34.Ng6+ Kh7 35.Nf6+ gxf6 36.Nxf8+[] Qxf8 37.Qc7+[] Qg7 38.Qxc6[] Qa7+[] 39.Rf2 Qxa6 40.Qc7+ Kg8 41.Qg3+ Kf7 42.Rxb2[] Qa7+ 43.Kh1 Rab8 44.Rxb8 (Black, inferior move, 29...Bxe4, -1.67. Best, fxe4, -3.22.) (Black blunder, 31...Nc5, +16.10.
Best, e5, -1.69. Rb8, - 1.38.)
d 15 : 8 min :
32.Rg4, -2.47. Best,
1.  (+#14): 32.Nf6 gxf6[] 33.Rg4[] Qd4+[] 34.Rxd4[] Ne4 35.Bxe4[] Bc5 36.Qxf6+ Kg8 37.Re3[] Bxd4[] 38.Qxd4 f4 39.Bh7+[] Kxh7 40.Qd7+ Kh8 41.Rh3 Re7 42.Qxe7 Kg8 43.Rxh6 Rxc4 44.Rg6+ Kh8 45.Qg7# |
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| Apr-15-11 | | Julian713: Gahhh!! I was so close...saw Nf6 AND Rg4 independently but couldn't quite figure out how to link them up. Good puzzle. |
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| Apr-15-11 | | riverunner: Got it. Kiss my sagacious and equally sassy hiney, nerdwads. |
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| Apr-16-11 | | Once: <riverunner: Got it. Kiss my sagacious and equally sassy hiney, nerdwads.> Now that's an invitation that you don't get every day... |
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| Apr-16-11 | | KingV93: <Once: Now that's an invitation that you don't get every day...> not so fast...I have a suspicion that it's uttered quite frequently, in parking lots, on the freeway, in line at the shopping center... |
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| Apr-16-11 | | Once: Perhaps, but usually not so eloquently expressed! |
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May-30-16
 | | perfidious: <FSR....I saw the winning line within 30 seconds. Sometimes I see them, sometimes I don't....> Don't I know it. |
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