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| Sep-16-14 | | morfishine: <41....Rxd2> 42.Qxd2 (42.Rxd2 Qf1#) 42...Bxc5+ and White has no
reasonable response: 43.Bd4 Qf1+ 44.Ke3 Qxf3# or 43.Re3 Qf1#
& 43.Qd4 doesn't bear mentioning...
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| Sep-16-14 | | Dr. J: <An Englishman: ...a tornado from a clear blue sky starting with 32...Qd7> I don't see it the same way. By move 32 White's position looks very bad: his pieces are stepping on each others' toes, his c and e pawns are desperately weak, and the K-side white squares are (censored). The move that especially impresses me is 20...c5: from an almost completely symmetric position (only the K-Bishops ere different), Black quickly destroys White's position. |
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| Sep-16-14 | | Once: There is an interesting "wait for it" quality about this position. Black's threat is Qf1, but he can't play it straight away. The Nd2 defends f1. So in true Monday/Tuesday fashion we chop off the defender. But 41...Rxd2 42. Qxd2 leads us to here:
click for larger viewNow we can play 42...Qf1+, but we shouldn't. The white king escapes out of the top of the bottle and we find ourselves in a king hunt with limited pieces. Left to his own devices, the white king will run to e3 and d4. Fritzie thinks that black has a hefty advantage of -2.7 after 42...Qf1+, but we have a better move. We need to wait another tick of the clock before playing Qf1. The killer move is 42... Bxc5+ 
click for larger viewIn one sense, this check is easy to get out of. We can interpose bishop on d4 or rook on e3. But we have established that the white king needs e3 and d4 for his escape route. Whether white blocks the check with Bd4 or Re3, he is taking away one of the white king's essential flight squares: 43. Bd4 Qf1+ 44. Ke3 Qxf3#
click for larger view43. Re3 Qf1#
click for larger viewIt turns out that after 42...Bc5+, the only move to avoid mate is 43. Qd4 which is a hopeless loss on material. Black wins first by removing a defender (41...Rxd2) and then by denying white access to flight squares (42...Bxc5). He never did get a chance to play his "wait for it" threat of Qf1. But I suppose his opponent's recognition was a sufficient reward. A little tough for a Tuesday perhaps. |
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| Sep-16-14 | | OldTimr: I wonder how Beliavsky feels about the West's covert takover of Ukraine. |
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| Sep-16-14 | | diagonalley: hmmmm... a four-mover... not difficult, but longer than usual for a tuesday |
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| Sep-16-14 | | agb2002: Black has the bishop pair for a bishop and a knight. The knight stops 41... Qf1#. Therefore, 41... Rxd2 42.Qxd2 (42.Rxd2 Qf1#) 42... Bxc5+ 43.Bd4 (43.Q(R)e3 Qf1#) 43... Qf1+ 44.Ke3 Qxf3#. |
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| Sep-16-14 | | Poulsen: <OldTimr><I wonder how Beliavsky feels about the West's covert takover of Ukraine> More importantly: what does he feel about Russias blatant invasion of Ukraine and unconcealed threats to other neighboring countries - and world peace at large. |
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| Sep-16-14 | | Cheapo by the Dozen: I found this a bit tricky to get right, because it looked like the solution would have a lot more to do with pins than it actually does. The main line turns out be: 41 ... Rxd2
42 Qxd2 Bxc5+
43 Bd4 Qf1+
44 Ke3 Qxf3#
Notes on Move 42:
Declining the rook accomplishes nothing.
Taking with the rook just gets White mated faster.
Notes on move 43:
Interposing the queen at d4 might actually defer mate for a little while.
Other interpositions just get White mated faster. |
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| Sep-16-14 | | Cheapo by the Dozen: White's problem, of course, was that 37 Kg2 loses a piece. He probably lost the game many moves earlier by not foreseeing that. |
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| Sep-16-14 | | zb2cr: 42. ... Rxd2; 43. Qxd2, Bxc5+!; 44. Bd4, Qf1+; 45. Ke3, Qxf3#. This is a name mating pattern: the "swallow's tail mate". |
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| Sep-16-14 | | Doniez: I found the mating combination but after 41....Rxd2 White replies 42.Rxd2 and then 42...Qf1. Unfortunately it doesn't work with the real game. |
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| Sep-16-14 | | Refused: easy.
41...Rxd2 42.Qxd2 (42.Rxd2 Qf1#) Bxc5+ 43.Bd4 (43.Re3 Qf1#) Qf1+ 44.Ke3 Qxf3# |
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Sep-16-14
 | | Penguincw: Oops. I forgot that queen sacs. are usually reserved for Mondays. :p 41...Qg1+ 42.Kxg1 Ra1+ 43.Re1 and that ruins the game for black. |
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| Sep-16-14 | | stacase:
You have to see Bxc5+ to make it work. |
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Sep-16-14
 | | Bubo bubo: 41...Rxd2! removes the guard of f1, threatening Qf1#, and pins the Re2. White must not recapture (42.Rxd2 Qf1# or 42.Qxd2 Bxc5+ 43.Bd4 Qf1+ 44.Ke3 Qxf3#), hence he will at least lose the rook as well after 42...Qf1+, and so he may confidently resign here. |
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| Sep-16-14 | | YetAnotherAmateur: I got it somewhat wrong: I had figured play continued 41. ... Rxd2 42. resigns. White can hang on a little while longer with 42. Qxd2 Bxc5+ 43. Bd4, but Qf1+ 44. Ke3 Qxf3# finishes things off nicely. |
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| Sep-16-14 | | notyetagm: Hjartarson vs Beliavsky, 1988 41 ... ♖a2x♘d2! <REMOVES THE GUARD> of the critical f1- and f3-squares next to the White e2-king. 42 ... ♗f8xc5+! forces White to make a critical <SELF-BLOCK> along the a7-g1 diagonal on either the e3- or d4-sq, faciliating ... ♕h1-f1# or ... ♕f1xf3#, respectively. |
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Sep-16-14
 | | FSR: 41...Rxd2 42.Qxd2 (42.Rxd2 Qf1#) Bxc5+ 0-1 |
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| Sep-16-14 | | kevin86: Black removes the defender, white captures to give a flight square. Then black forces white to block that square with another check. |
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| Sep-16-14 | | Longview: <Once> you really do a terrific job of looking at it and laying it out. I, for one, appreciate the effort and am trying to model my thinking in such a fashion. Great job! |
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| Sep-16-14 | | BOSTER: This is not easy to find any logic in foggy game played by white after the opening. Maybe the truth is: to understand the positional game for players with a tactical orientation this is not a Monday puzzle. But if the basis of the positional game is <prophylaxis>,and if you want to restrict the mobility of the piece, or stop the opponent from taking action in a certain area performing his own plan, you should (for ex.) play 29.h4 when black knight on h7, not after Ng5. This is a prophylaxis.
My guess that white didn't see the in-between move 37...Qh3. |
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| Sep-16-14 | | WJW147: Good Morning from Oz.
If the black rook takes the knight at d2 it should win the game. Please forgive me if I am not using the correct terminology as I rarely put pen to paper (so to speak).
If I am wrong I feel sure someone will steer me in the right direction. |
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| Sep-16-14 | | TheBish: Hjartarson vs Beliavsky, 1988 Black to play (41...?) "Easy"
This one took me a little longer than most "easy" (Tuesday) puzzles. Maybe because the solution is four moves long instead of three! Actually, it was because I was looking at 42...Qf1+ for awhile before I even looked at 42...Bxc5+, which sets up a mate or wins the queen. 41...♖xd2!
(Easy to find, as the knight was guarding f1 to prevent a queen check there) 42. ♕xd2
Or 42. Rxd2 Qf1#.
42...♗xc5+ 43. ♗d4
Natural, and avoiding 43. Re3 Qf1#, but now the bishop will block a necessary escape square for the king. 43...♕f1+ 44. ♔e3 ♕xf3#.
A swallow tail mate, similar to an epaulet mate. White's queen and bishop, on squares diagonally adjacent to the king, block squares where otherwise the king would be able to escape to. |
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| Sep-17-14 | | OldTimr: On what day Poulsen, did "Russias blatant invasion" take place? Was it last friday's humanitarian aid, the truckloads with tons of food, medicine, water purifiers, generators, etc from Russia? |
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| Sep-17-14 | | OldTimr: TheBish, recognizing the swallow tail mate makes it easier for us humans to find the solution. |
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