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Jun-04-15
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| Jun-04-15 | | M.Hassan: "Medium"
Black to play 34...?
Black is a pawn down.
34............Rxf1+
35.Kxf1 Bxh3+
A)
36.Kg1 Qc6 threatening mate on g2
37.Ne3 Bxe3+
38.Bf2 Qg2#
B)
36.Kf2 Qf7+
37.Kg1 Qf1#
I think easier than last night. |
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| Jun-04-15 | | openningspecialist: Tough one. I didn't consider anything other than 34. ... Bf5 35. Rb2 Nd3 36. Bxd3 Bxd3 37. Bf2 Bxc4 38. Qa4 b5 ... Black has the 2 bishops. |
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| Jun-04-15 | | greenfield67: I had 36...Qc6 as well. Looks as good as the game. |
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| Jun-04-15 | | jith1207: Yes, that trains me well to think at some depth, but not so quick yet. Nevertheless, I think there are few ways to mate, I preferred the plan A proposed by M.Hassan, but I come to like the game line more. I started going the Knight check path, but should have calculated all the possibilities there but instead settled for the route my mind was comfortable to check through. |
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| Jun-04-15 | | rebjorn: I saw
34. Bh3 Bxh3 35. Ne2+ and the queen gives mate
34. ..Bd3 35. Qc6 36. Ne3 Bxe3+ 37. Bf2 Bxf2#
I missed the defenses 35. Ne3 and Bg2, but now with the board in front of me we have the same themes:
35. Ne3 Bxe3+ 36. Bf2 Bxf2+ and the queen gives mate
35. Bg2 Ne2+ 36. Kh1 Rf1+ 37. Bxf1 Qc6+ then mate
What did I miss? |
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Jun-04-15
 | | al wazir: I opted for 36...Qf7. I think that works too. White can't defend against both the threat of 37...Qf3 and the immediate mate 37...Qf1. |
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| Jun-04-15 | | agb2002: Black is one pawn down.
Black can weaken the light squares around the white king with 34... Rxf1+ 35.Kxf1 (35.Kg2 Qc6+ 36.Kxf1 Bh3+ and 37... Qg2#) 35... Bh3+ A) 36.Kf2 Qf7+ 37.Kg1 Qf1#.
B) 36.Kg1 Qc6 and the threat 37... Qg2# wins. |
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| Jun-04-15 | | greed and death: Not too often that I get a Thursday puzzle.
Had this one up to 36... Ne2+, after which I figured that blacks attack is winning and didn't bother calculating any further. |
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| Jun-04-15 | | abuzic: <33...Bd7> was not needed to execute the same mating combination: 33...Rxf1+ |
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Jun-04-15
 | | radtop: I rarely get the puzzle on Wednesday, but this one seemed quite clear. White's greedy Queen gets out of position, while blacks pieces were situated for the optimum result. |
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| Jun-04-15 | | Cheapo by the Dozen: I had 36 ... Qc6 as well.
This was after a failed try at a queen trap with 34 ... Bc6, and also a mirage in which I briefly thought that 34 ... Qc6 worked even against 35 Bg2 (I don't recall why). |
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| Jun-04-15 | | diagonalley: excellent puzzle... sadly, i didn't crack it :-( |
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| Jun-04-15 | | BlackWaive: I went with <34...Qc6>, which <almost> works. White's only defense is <35. c5!>: 34...Qc6 35. c5 Bh3 36. Bxh3
and now 36...Ne2+ is unplayable due to the availability of 37. Qxe2. |
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| Jun-04-15 | | Cybe: 33... Bd7? - what for? Black should immediately play 33... R:f1+ with mate in 6 (same as in the game). If 33... Bd7?, 34. Q:d7 - White loses, of course (strong russian engines gave +12,27 for Black), but it's not forced mate. |
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| Jun-04-15 | | houtenton: Amazing how we can think very different through the week about the difficulty of the problems. For me this one was one of the easiest puzzles in a long time. And sometimes it takes me hours to solve a tuesday or wednesday. The feeling that you simply don't see an easy one. Difficult or not, it's very personal and how you feel today. So never give up, shame yourself or feel sad about missing a simple solution. Lay it down, next week you solve a sunday puzzle and you feel great. |
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| Jun-04-15 | | morfishine: Black Knight covers <e2> so the attack starts with <34...Rxf1+> forcing 35.Kxf1 Bh3+ 36.Kg1 Qc6 or 36.Kf2 Qf7+ |
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| Jun-04-15 | | Moszkowski012273: Good lord... A whole bunch of stuff wins here... |
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| Jun-04-15 | | zb2cr: I found the game line, fairly quickly. |
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| Jun-04-15 | | awfulhangover: I solved this very quickly, took me far less time than Tuesday' puzzle. Strange. |
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| Jun-04-15 | | CHESSTTCAMPS: White is up a pawn, but black's pieces have far more mobility, with long-range striking power that the white pieces do not. White's light-squared bishop is about the only piece defending the king position. Eliminating it allows a decisive invasion on the light squares: 34... Rxf1+ 35.Kxf1 (Kg2 Qc6+ 36.Kxf1 Qh1+ 37.Kf2 Qxh2+ 38.Kf3 [Kf1 Bh3#] Qe2#) Bh3+ 36.Kg1 (Kf2 Qf7+ 37.Kg1 Qf1#) Qc6 and 37... Qg2# can only be avoided by spite check (Qa8|c8+) or 37.Ne3 Bxe3# Time for review... |
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| Jun-04-15 | | morfishine: <houtenton> Excellent advice defining pattern recognition |
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Jun-04-15
 | | Penguincw: After solving a puzzle for the first time in 2 weeks yesterday, I also got this one (probably the first time in ages I got a Thursday). I found 34...Rxf1+ 35.Kxf1 Bh3+ 36.Kg1 Ne2+ 37.Kf2 Qf7+ 38.Kxe2 Qf1+. That was as far as my brain could imagine. |
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| Jun-04-15 | | dfcx: Looks like a mate
34...Rxf1+
A) 35.Kxf1 Bh3+
A1) 36.Kg1 Ne2+ 37.Kf2 (Kh1 Qc6#) Qf7+ 38.Kxe2 Qf1+ 39.Kd1 Bg4# A2) 36.Kf2 Qf7+ 37.Kg1 Qf1#
B) 35.Kg2 Qc6+ 36.Kxf1 Bh3+ 37.Kg1/Kf2 Qg2# |
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| Jun-04-15 | | Tiggler: <rebjorn: I saw
34. Bh3 Bxh3 35. Ne2+ and the queen gives mate
34. ..Bd3 35. Qc6 36. Ne3 Bxe3+ 37. Bf2 Bxf2#>You interchanged black and white moves. I also chose 34. ..Bh3, which wins, but I overlooked the defense 35. Bf2 which seems to be best (-M21). The game continuation is clearly best (-M6) |
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sac: 34...Rxf1+