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Nov-03-16
 | | perfidious: White's 45th is a most imaginative and elegant shot. |
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| Nov-03-16 | | SeanAzarin: Black could have prolonged his resistance with 60... B-B3. 60... K-B1?? blundered away the Bishop and the game immediately. |
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| Nov-03-16 | | SeanAzarin: Although by that point Black was pretty much screwed regardless. White is threatening 61 Q-R6 ch. |
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| Nov-03-16 | | AlicesKnight: <perfidious: White's 45th is a most imaginative and elegant shot.> Agreed; the Rh8+ pin from behind caps it nicely. And yes, after 60....Bb3, 61.Qh6+ Kg8; 62.Kf6 and the Q protects f4 meaning that the mate can only be delayed by giving up the R. |
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| Nov-03-16 | | kevin86: One white moves ends it quickly. |
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Dec-19-22
 | | An Englishman: Good Evening: Now this is a Monday puzzle me five poor remaining brain cells can solve. |
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Dec-19-22
 | | Dionysius1: Amen to that.
I wonder whether the increasing number of false starts particularly in selecting MONDAY puzzles is down to over reliance on an automatic selector they haven't designed right yet? |
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| Dec-19-22 | | Brenin: A second POTD, this time one that is of traditional Monday difficulty and follows a traditional Monday theme (h-file R sac). White, B+P down, gets Q+2P for the R. With Black's R and B lacking safe squares and his K exposed to checks, the win is straightforward. |
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| Dec-19-22 | | saturn2: 48.Rh8+ Kg7 49.Qf6 mate |
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| Dec-19-22 | | Mayankk: Monday indeed. Distract the defender, pick the prize. The game went for another 10+ moves. Difficult to see any Black hopes of building a Rook-Bishop fortress though, especially after the loss of c-d pawn pair. |
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| Dec-19-22 | | Brenin: The combination actually starts with 45 Bc6, so that after 45 ... Bxc6 46 Qf6 Qg7 (forced, to avoid mate on h8) 47 Qd8+, the check forces 47 ... Qf8, allowing the R sac 48 Rh8+. Black could have avoided this by declining the B sac with 45 ... f6 (or f5) 46 exf6 Rh7, but then 47 Rxh7 Kxh7 48 Bxe8 Qxe8 49 Qxc5 Qf7 (to avoid 50 Qc7+) 50 Qxd4 gives White a clear win. Black, up by a protected passed P, went wrong with 42 ... Ra7, when he needed the defensive Rb8 (protecting the back rank and avoiding the White B) followed by Qg7 (protecting the weak black squares around his K). |
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| Dec-19-22 | | goodevans: <Mayankk: ... The game went for another 10+ moves. Difficult to see any Black hopes of building a Rook-Bishop fortress though, especially after the loss of c-d pawn pair.> The puzzle only works at all because White's able to grab those two pawns. Put Black's B on b4 rather than c6 and there's no win there for White. Sure, he can still win Q for R with 48.Rh8+ but after that he's fighting for a draw. And if a draw is what he's after then 48.Qf6 Qg7 49.Qd8+ is a much simpler way of going about it. |
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| Dec-19-22 | | mel gibson: Good - a super easy Monday puzzle. LOL |
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| Dec-19-22 | | eblunt: <goodevans:? Yes, I saw RH8+ winning the Queen for Rook, but initially started looking for something else as Black still has R+B and a pawn majority, and the key pawn at f7 was protected. I was only later when I looked again at it and saw that the 2 Q side pawns drop that it's enough for a win. |
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Dec-19-22
 | | chrisowen: I yup in its zilch quark oe its Rh8 gel coffin able its leeway dub chi tab job advance its dank Rh8 cried :) |
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Dec-19-22
 | | pittpanther: I saw the win of the queen for a rook but even after white wins the two pawns it will still take some technique to win the game. |
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| Dec-19-22 | | jrredfield: Well that's more like it! Easy peasy. |
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| Dec-19-22 | | eblunt: <pittpanther:> Yes white needs to get his pawns moved up, with the king protected in front of them, at which point he can advance his pawn, and cause other mischief as well. Even so it only ended 14 moves later as a result of a blunder by black. |
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| Dec-19-22 | | johnnydeep: A very obvious way to even out the material balance. But not so obvious how to win after that though. |
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| Dec-19-22 | | mel gibson: Just for the sake of it -
I put the position into Stockfish 15:
48. Rh8+
(48. Rh8+ (♖h3-h8+ ♔g8xh8 ♕d8xf8+ ♔h8-h7 ♕f8xc5 ♖a7-c7 ♕c5xd4 ♖c7-c8 ♕d4-a7 ♔h7-g7 ♕a7-a6
♖c8-c7 f2-f3 g6-g5 ♔h2-g3 ♔g7-g6 ♕a6-b6 ♖c7-c8 ♕b6-b4 ♔g6-f5 ♕b4-d6 g5-g4
♕d6-d4 ♖c8-g8 ♕d4-f4+ ♔f5-g6 ♔g3xg4 ♔g6-g7 ♔g4-g3 ♖g8-a8 ♕f4-g5+ ♔g7-f8
♕g5-h4 ♗c6-e8 ♕h4-d4 ♖a8-c8 ♕d4-d6+ ♔f8-g7 ♕d6-e7 ♖c8-a8 ♕e7-b7 ♖a8-a2
♕b7-c8 ♗e8-a4 ♕c8-a6 ♗a4-b3 ♕a6-b5 ♗b3-a4 ♕b5-a5 ♗a4-b3 ♕a5-b4 ♗b3-d1 c4-c5
♖a2-c2 ♕b4-b1 ♖c2xc5 ♕b1xd1 ♖c5-d5 ♕d1-a4 ♖d5xe5) +13.78/47 2206) score for White +13.78 depth 47. |
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| Dec-19-22 | | YoungEd: I'm with <pittpanther>. I saw the combo easily enough but would have had a hard time winning the aftermath of it! |
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| Dec-19-22 | | King.Arthur.Brazil: Monday back! (lgs)... ♖h8+ and win the enemy's ♕... you know, the King loves this! |
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| Dec-19-22 | | agb2002: White is a bishop and pawn down.
After 48.Rh8+ Kxh8 (48... Kg7 49.Qxf8#) 49.Qxf8+ Kh7 50.Qxc5 Rc7 (50... Rd7 51.Qxc6 Rd8 52.Qc7 and the d-pawn will fall soon) 51.Qxd4 is winning. |
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Dec-19-22
 | | eternaloptimist: I solved this puzzle instantly. For anybody who wants to show someone else an example of a Monday puzzle that would serve as the epitome of Monday puzzles, this would b an excellent example
<An Englishman> Lol |
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| Dec-21-22 | | TheaN: Posted on this Monday, but I guess something went wrong with the kibitz itself. <48.Rh8+ Kxh8 (Kg7 49.Qf6#) 49.Qxf8+ Kh7 50.Qxc5 Ra6/Rc7 51.Qxd4 +-> was not that difficult though. However, I do feel up to move 51 is necessary, as just Q:RBPP is not that trivial. |
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sac: 45.Bc6