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| Sep-28-12 | | vinidivici: Deserves GOTD...i think |
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Jun-16-23
 | | takebackok: Hey its a puz, so Rh8+,fun move is the Bxg6+ with a naked king mate! Oh yea! |
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| Jun-16-23 | | Brenin: Threatened with mate, White has 35 Rh8+ with mate after 35 ... Kxh8 (Kg7 36 Qf8 mate) 36 Qf8+ Kh7 37 Qxf7+ Kh8 38 Qf8+ Kh7 39 Bxg6+ Kxg6 40 Qg8 mate. |
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Jun-16-23
 | | perfidious: Forintos' king is under deadly threat, but 35.Rh8+ Kxh8 36.Qf8+ Kh7 37.Qxf7+ forces at least a perpetual. Wait: does White have more?
Aha! 37.Qxf7+ Kh8 38.Qf8+ Kh7 39.Bxg6+ is a pretty way to close the proceedings; one might say Black's king gets tomohawked. |
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| Jun-16-23 | | Brenin: White's 32 f3 was a mistake, with 32 Qf8 winning. Then, instead of the impetuous 33 ... Qg1+, eliminating White's B first with 33 ... Rxb5 would have given Black a draw, e.g. 34 axb5 Qg1+ 35 Kf4 Bb1, threatening 36 ... g5 mate, e.g. 36 h4 Qh2+ 37 Ke3 Qxe5+ 38 Kd2 or Kf2 Qh2+ etc. |
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| Jun-16-23 | | Mayankk: With White King in a mating net, something needs to be done pretty quickly. That makes the solution easy to find. 35 Rh8+ Kxh8 36 Qf8+ Kg7 37 Qxf7+ Kh8.
So far so good. We have pushed the Black King in a corner and luckily for us, none of Black pieces have any say over the proceedings in this corner. Black Bishop and Queen are busy planning to mate White King while its Rook needs two moves to be of any help. After this it got murky for me. I didn't spot the pretty 38 Qf8+ Kh7 39 Bxg6+ Kxg6 40 Qg8# idea. Instead I digressed with 38 Qe8+. If 38 ... Kh7, its an easy mate with 39 Qxg6+ Kh8 40 Qh7#. If 38 ... Kg7, then I hoped 39 Qxg6+ Kf8 may lead to a mate down the line. Tricky ending after an easy-to-spot attack. |
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| Jun-16-23 | | King.Arthur.Brazil: Trying: 35. Bxg6+ (fxg6 36. Qe7#) Kxg6 36. Qd6+(Kg7 37. Qf6+ Kh7 38. Rh8#) Kh7 37. Qd3+ Kg7 38. Qxf3 Rxe5 and White attack seems to fail.
The other possibility is: 35. Rh8+ (Kg7 36. Qf8#) Kxh8 36. Qf8+ Kh7 37. Qxf7+ Kh8. Now, 38. Qf6+ Kh7 39. Bxg6+ Kg8 40. Qf7+ Kh8 41. Qh7# or 38... Kg8 39. Qxg6+ (Kh8 40. Qh7#) Kf8 40. Qd6+ (Ke8 41. Bg6#) 41. Bc4+ Kg7 42. Qf6+ Kh7 43. Qf7+ Kh8 44. Qg8# . But Black can resist with 41... Bd5 42. Bxd5+ Rxd5 43. Qxd5+ Ke8 44. Qe6+ Kd8 45. Qd6+ Ke8 46. e6. I don't know if this is enough to win the game. For this reason, maybe 38. Qxf3 can be the right continuation. Well, I didn't see the 38. Bxg6+ Kxg6 39. Qg8#. Believe it or not? |
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| Jun-16-23 | | jrredfield: I jumped at 35 Bxg6 since Bishop sacs like that are such a common theme with POTDs. Too hasty on my part, as I saw eventually that this leads most likely to a draw. My next choice was 35 Rh8+, which is a mate in 6. By the time White plays 40 Qg8#, the two White pawns are perfectly oriented to cut off Black's escape routes - ingenious! |
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| Jun-16-23 | | mel gibson: Easy one today - it's forced mate in 6. |
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| Jun-16-23 | | agb2002: Black threatens mate in two.
White's e- and g-pawns control a number of squares around the black king. This suggests 35.Rh8+ Kxh8 (35... Kg7 36.Qf8#) 36.Qf8+ Kh7 37.Qxf7+ Kh8 38.Qf8+ (38.Qe8+ Kg7 39.Qxg6+ Kf8 40.Qf6+ Kg8 [40... Ke8 41.Bg6+ Kd7 42.Qd6+ Kc8 43.Bf5#] 41.Bc4+ Bd5) 38... Kh7 39.Bxg6+ Kg6 40.Qg8#. |
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| Jun-16-23 | | stacase: And I'll be looking for the Rook sacrifice tomorrow(-: |
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Jun-16-23
 | | An Englishman: Good Evening: The puzzle proves easier than the question--when did Forintos foresee the game move? Obviously, he knew what he would do when he played Bd3+, but did he see the winning move further back? |
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| Jun-16-23 | | sfm: 30.g4!!
Ice cold. Giving just enough room so that the White king can escape. Then ten move later that pawn is participating in the mating of the black king. Pretty! |
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| Jun-16-23 | | karik: <newzild> do you still have the same girlfriend? |
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| Jun-16-23 | | goodevans: That's just way too easy for a Friday. |
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| Jun-16-23 | | paavoh: Black has a mate in two, so White has to give check right away with Rh8+. Too easy for Friday. |
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| Jun-16-23 | | carlomix: Very simple, not difficult at all: since you are hopeless against both checkmate in g2 and g4, all you have to do is check over and over again |
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Jun-16-23
 | | chrisowen: I'll q mob clean its zug Rh8+ axiom jeep ie arrived its odd account mack Rh8+ one |
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| Jun-16-23 | | johnnydeep: Very easy, up to the bishop sac at 39.Bxg6+ which I didn't see. Probably would have though had I spent a little more time looking! |
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| Jun-16-23 | | ndg2: Combination is lengthy, but totally forced. Therefore "medium" instead of "difficult". |
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| Jun-16-23 | | Hercdon: Beautiful mate! |
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| Jun-16-23 | | get Reti: It�s nice how in the final position, each square around the king is attacked by exactly one piece or pawn. |
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| Jun-16-23 | | Whitehat1963: I would have stopped with the perpetual. |
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| Jun-16-23 | | jffun1958: I missed 39. Bxg6+. |
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Jun-17-23
 | | PawnSac: Black threatens ..Qg2+ Kh4 Qxh2#, so if white plays completely defensive, he must guard h2, but Qd2 abandons g4 allowing Qxg4#, and Qf4? fails to Qg2+ Kh4 g5+ fork. There's no good way to stop black's attack. BUT it is white to play.. The obvious Rh8+ Kx (not Kg7 Qf8#) Qf8+ and Qf7-f8-f7 guarantees at least a perpetual. The only other option involves Bxg6+ (hoping for fxg Qe7#) but after Kxg6 Rg8+ white has nothing and still has to protect h2, so after Bxg6+ Kx Rd2 white has guarded h2 but at the expense of a piece and is losing. The irony is Rh8 appears forced as the only clear way not to lose! White must go for Rh8+ Kx Qf8+ Kh7 then sit on his hands and look for a mate, else take the repetition. Over the board, this is one of those positions that many would have felt lucky and taken the draw. Only the determined find the mate. |
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