White to move. How should white proceed?
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White to move. How should white proceed?
Source: ChessToday.net
Most likely
1. b4 Qxb4 (if not, loses knight)
2. Bd2 Qa3 (to defend the knight. If Qa4, just trade queen, and white would be up a piece)
3. Re3 Queen can move anywhere..
and I think white is a piece up if I didn’t visualize wrongly. 🙂
Yancey Ward said…
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b4 wins brilliantly, let me show you fish how to play
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No hesitation:
1. b4 Qb4
2. Bd2 Qa3
3. Re3
1.b4 Qb4
2.Bd2 Qa3
3.Re3
1. b4 Qxb4 (what else?)
2. Bd2 Qa3
2. … Qa4
3. Qxa4 bxa4
4. Bxa5 +-
3. Re3 and Black cannot save his knight a5: +-
At first, I was interested in 1.Ne5 with the idea of 2.Nd7 to win the exchange at f8, but this isn’t going to work as well as I had hoped:
1. Ne5 Qc7
2. Nd7? Rd8
Winning a queen and a knight for two rooks is in black’s favor. White might try Bg5 at move 2, but this still looks holdable for black:
2. Bg5 Nf6 (f6?? 3.Qd5+-)
3. Rc1 Qb7
And, I like white’s position better, but this is no hammer-blow kind of line.
Secondly, I wondered if I could skewer the queen and the knight by sacrificing the b-pawn:
1. b4 Qb4
I really don’t see how black can refuse to take the pawn. Continuing:
2. Bd2 Qa3 (to protect the knight)
3. Re3 and black will lose a piece for a pawn.
1.b4 Qxb4 2.Bd2 Qa3 3.Re3 +-
– SS
1.b4 ! Qxb4 2. Bd2 Qa3 3 Re3 Q-* 4.Bxa5
1. b4 should win a piece
if 1. … qxb4
2. Bd2 Qa3
3. Re3 & the Q needs to move away
2. … if Qa4
3. Qxa4 bxa4
4. Bxa5
From Spain…
1)b4!,Qb4[Qa4 2)Bd2,Qa4 3)Qa4,ba4 4)Ba5 +-]
2)Bd2,Qa3
3)Re3,Qa4
4)Qa4,ba4
5)Ba5 +-
Greetings from Spain
PB4, then BD2, the knight is gone.
b4 it’s too late: 1.b4! Qxb4 2.Bd2 Qa3 3.Re3 wins the knight.
1.b4 Qxb4 2.Bd2 Qa3 3.Re3
SCORE!
b4
white must play b4 beacuse knight and queen they stand very badly and after the queen take the pawn on b4 beacuse of fork his queen gonna be over loaded to protect his knight on a5
1. b4 Q:b4 2. Bd2 Qa4 3. Q:a4 ba 4. B:a5 looks good to me.
b4 Qxb4
Bd2 +++
1.b4, Qb4 2. Bd2 winning the knight or the rook on f8.