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Jul-08-09
 | | Check It Out: 26.Qf4 threatens the knight fork on e6. If 26...Qxf4 27.Re8+ Rxe8 28.Nd7# |
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| Jul-08-09 | | YouRang: Bah. I hastily miscalculated and thought that I found the solution with 26.Nd7+? Monkey see check, monkey give check.
Monkey lose. :-( |
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| Jul-08-09 | | parisattack: First 2-Star I've missed for awhile. Saw 26. Qf4 but it looked some involved and assumed a 2-star meant there was a quicker hit... |
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| Jul-08-09 | | randomsac: I thought of Nxb7 followed by Qc5+. That line seems to get pretty ugly. I have to admit that the mate is better, but I wonder if my line would give me a winning advantage. |
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| Jul-08-09 | | MostlyAverageJoe: Very curious. This puzzle seems to be much more difficult for humans than my engine-based evaluation would indicate (which classified it as "between Tue/Wed" difficulty, leaning towards a difficult Tue). Oh, well, this one is an outlier. |
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Jul-08-09
 | | beenthere240: <arcturus> I like your 27. Nxb7 Rdc8
but after 28 Nd6 what about simply Qxd6? I don't see any mate. |
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| Jul-08-09 | | Arcturus: Ha Ha ! You are right! When I said I was in a rush I meant it.
Looks like I'll be double checking my stuffs before the next post.
8-) |
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Jul-08-09
| | beenthere240: Well, you do win an important pawn!! I went that route myself but followed it up with 28. Qc5+, which also appears to fizzle out. |
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Jul-08-09
| | beenthere240: Actually, I don't even like 27. Nxb7 any more since ... Qxb7 seems pretty good. This is more my style: search and find a losing move! |
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| Jul-08-09 | | PalladiumPawn: No Good. I looked at 26. Bf5 with the intention of eyeing d7 along with activating my bishop. But, alas, this is too slow and fails after 26...Nf6 among other things. |
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| Jul-08-09 | | WhiteRook48: struggling with 26 Nxe6+?? |
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Jul-08-09
 | | fm avari viraf: To be candid, I didn't find the right move at a glance which normally I do. But I was finding out the candidates like 26.Bg6, Bh7, Ne6+ & then I sppotted 26.Qf4 which finishes off due to Black's back rank weakness. |
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Jul-08-09
 | | gawain: Poor Buhmann. Lest we feel too sorry for him, though, look again at a previous puzzle: R Buhmann vs B Saeheng, 2008 |
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| Jul-08-09 | | scorpius: 26.Nxa6 should be 1-0 after bxa6 27.Qc5+. 26.Qf4 is better though |
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| Jul-08-09 | | morfishine: Now I get it...very good for a 2-star |
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| Jul-08-09 | | vulcan20: Wow did I miss it. I was so intent on getting in Ne6 I completely overlooked White's simple remove-the-defender tactic! |
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| Jul-08-09 | | lzromeu: Are This a Plachutta threats example?
Sac the Queen, sac the rook and mate by Knight and other unmoved rook |
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| Jul-08-09 | | JG27Pyth: There just had to be some way to get the N to e6 or d7... and after a bit of searching the Q deflection revealed itself. |
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| Jul-08-09 | | jsheedy: <vulcan20> Me too! When I saw the move, I thought, How can that work? Then I played it out. Nice. |
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| Jul-08-09 | | TheDestruktor: <gropek>, in case you are still reading: to quote something, just put it between "<>" |
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| Jul-08-09 | | newzild: Damn, I went for 26.Nxa6 ba 27.Qc5+ Nge7 28.Rxe7, which wins because 28...Nxe7 drops the queen. The actual game continuation is much better, of course. |
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| Jul-08-09 | | TheBish: S Fedorchuk vs R Buhmann, 1999 White to play (26.?) "Medium/Easy"
I got this fairly quickly, once I saw the mating possibilty after a couple of diversions. 26. Qf4! offers a trade of queens, which Black can't accept. White threatens 27. Qxc7 as well as 27. Ne6+, winning the queen. A) 26...Qxf4 (or 26...Qb6 or Qa5) 27. Re8+ Rxe8 28. Nd7#. B) 26...Qd6 27. Re8+ Rxe8 28. Qxd6+ Nge7 (or Re7) 29. Nc7+ is easy. C) 26...Qc8 27. Ne6+ Ke7 (or Kd8) 28. Nxd8+ Kxd8 (or Black loses a whole rook) 29. Qd6+ and mate next move. D) 26...Rd6 27. Ne6+ wins the queen for a knight, since 27...Rxe6 28. Qxc7. E) 26...Ne5 (or Rbc8) doesn't address both threats, as simply 27. Ne6+ wins the queen. The bottom line is, Black is busted and should resign! Note that Black's g8 knight would be a much better defender on f6! |
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| Jul-08-09 | | ZUGZWANG67: Hm. I could not quite solve this one. I saw 26.Qf4 but did not realize how strong it was. |
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| Jul-08-09 | | goldenbear: I'm always suprised by what causes people difficulty. I saw that Bg6 Nf6 was incorrect and then looked at Qf4. The whole thing took about 8 seconds. This is one of the puzzles I saw to the end. I always get the first move but rarely see anything to the end. |
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| Jul-08-09 | | DarthStapler: I didn't get it |
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