White to move. Does White have enough compensation for the pawn? How should White proceed?
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White to move. Does White have enough compensation for the pawn? How should White proceed?
Yeap. The queen can be trapped. White will win a rook for a knight.
1. f4! Qf5 (otherwise there’s a knight fork)
2. Qe2! (The immediate Nd6 doesn’t work because Qxc2) Rbd8 or Red8
3. Nd6 Rxd6 (forced. otherwise the queen is gone)
4. Rxd6
That seems to be it.
Good job! BTW Susan, what programs do you use to create those chess diagrams? They are beautiful and I’m afraid that I take them for granted.
Black can still play the ugly 2…,Nc8 avoiding the fork of 3.Nd6
how about:
ne6.. re8
nxf7 kxf7
qxh7+ …..
sorry…
ne6 red8
then nxf7…
nd6 red8
f4 qe3
rd3
>>
It will be replied by
3. g4 Qxf4
4. Rf1 Qc7
5. Nxf6
And white will still win one rook for a knight.
To Mr. Jack Le Moine,
The diagrams are generated using the Fritz chess playing program.
First select the color of the chess board and pieces, then start new game/ position set up / insert the pieces on the board and then just copy the board as a pdf file to your desktop.
Viola it is available to post or print or what ever you wish to do with it.
I’d offer my congratulations to the solver of the problem, but unfortunately s/he remained anonymous.
Best in chess and in life to all,
Dr. Mark Mieth
But after 1.f4 Qf5 2.Qe2 h6 3.Nd6?! is not enough for win, because black can places his knight on outpost on d4! For example: 3…Qh7 4.Nxe8 Rxe8 5.Rd6
Nf5 6.Rxb6 Nd4! and this position looks as draw. So, much stronger move will be 3.Qf3! and after a simple moves like 3…Kf8(Kh8) 4.g4 Qh7 5.Nxf6 Qg7 6.Nxe8 Rxe8 a black knight is passive and white has an advantage.
white f4 forces black Qf7 any other move will result in damage to black queen. either black queen would be taken outright or forked. white Nf6 forks black rook and king. also white gets the loss pawn and has now gained a material advantage.
white f4 forces black Qc7 any other move will result in damage to black queen. either black queen would be taken outright or forked. white Nf6 forks black rook and king. also white gets the loss pawn and has now gained a material advantage.
i will now add to me earlier post. after white f4 Qc7 Nf6 Kf8 Qxh7 black moves anywhere then Qh8 mate.