jcheyne wants to be the first to solve the next one so here it is 🙂
Black to move. Can Black get out of the mess? How should Black proceed?
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A slighly different scenario
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1. …Rf7 and I don’t see continuing with the threats. 2. Nxf7 Qa1# of course, but 2. Qxf7+ Kh8 and there are no checks, I can see 3. c4 Qa1+ 4. Kc2 Ra2+ 5. Kd3 Qxd1+ 6. Ke3 Qe2#.
if 3. Qe8+ Rxe8 black just has a queen and bishop more.
If white plays 2. something else, there is still no stopping mate as in the main line there.
1. … Rh7 (1. … Kh8 leads to mate)
2. Qxf7 Kh8
3. Rd8 Rxd8 (This is the part of the movie when the bad guy runs out of bullets and tries throwing the gun instead.)
4. Qxg7+ Kxg7
5. Ne6 Kg8
6. Nxd8 c4
7. bxc4 b3
8. Nxb7 Qa2+
9. Kc1 Qxc2#
Sorry for the delay. I was watching “The Picture of Dorian Gray.”
jcheyne
1. QH8 !!! Checkmate !!!
I think this was too easy! 🙂
White has the resource Rd8+ which sweeps the a8 rook out from under the queen on the a file. It stops mate but it costs a rook
1… Rf7
2. Rd8+ Raxd8
3. Qxf7+
and black has no more threats.
Kellner, that was a “brave” statement, since 3. Qxf7+ Kh8 white must sac his queen or he is mate in 2. If whites sacs his queen, he is of course mate in a few moves too! “Best” is Qzg7 followed by a fork on e6 🙂
Lol.. that was funny Susan.. maybe next time he’s going to be the first to solve
1… Qa1 checkmate.
Is this a joke?
It’s nice to see SP react to commenter wishes so quickly, and compose a `twin’ problem zwillingly.
Amazingly, if right now you Google “zwillingly”, you get the explanation from an earlier entry on Susan’s blog as a unique hit on Google! Usually one needs two unusual words to make a “Googlewhack”—of course, those must be legal words, as mine isn’t (it’s a pun on German “Zwilling”, meaning twin).
Unfortunately, my making this post will destroy the uniqueness of this hit. But many true Googlewhacks remain—and you’re not supposed to post them on a page visible to Google, as that would destroy them! My professional CS interest in the idea is that by putting a Googlewhack in a private e-mail, you can enforce a request to keep it private from the Net. The reason is that the person who destroys the uniquensss of a Googlewhack can be exposed for all time by anyone able to sort Google hits by date!
“puzzle”—Black is in check.
jcheyne said…
“(This is the part of the movie when the bad guy runs out of bullets and tries throwing the gun instead.)”
Heh heh heh
“Sorry for the delay. I was watching ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’.”
Hey: Get your priorities straight!