Black to move. How should Black proceed?
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Black to move. How should Black proceed?
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Nice and easy!
1. … , Qg2+
2. Kxg2, Nf4+
3. Kg1, Nh3#
Regards,
Miguel
it’s a mate in three. absolutely forced, but nevertheless beautiful. i wish i could one time do something like this in a real game.
1. … Qg2+
2. Kxg2 Nf4+
3. Kg1 Nh3#
greets, jan
Nxe3 then Qh1#. Nice and easy.
Qg2+ Kxg2
Kf4+ Kg1
Kh3++
That was simple.. those knights are so nasty…
Qg2+ kxg nf4! kg1 nh3 mate
Qg2+ is better!
No, sorry. If Nxe3, then Bxf3 and Black is toast.
Better: 1. Qg2+ Kxg2
2. Nf4++! Kg1
3. Nh3#
Remember the power of the double-check – it forces a king move as a response.
I believe I once threatened a similar combination against the great Ernesto Inarkiev at the Olympiad, but he escaped with a perpatual.
lol. Qg2+! is away better!
Qg2+ Kxg2
Nf4++! Kg1
Nh3#
if Nxe3 then Bxf3 -.-
@ Anonymous, if 1. … , Nxe3 then 2. Bxf3
Of course, after Bxf3, it’s easy for white.
…Qh1+ first, then Nxe3 mate.
1. Qg2 Kxg2
2. Nf4++ Kg1
3. Nh3#
Nxe3 threatening Qh1#. Baby problem.
Qg2 Kg2 Nf4
Qg2 Kg2 Nf4
1.Qh1+, KxQ
2. Nc3+, Kg1 (White can throw pieces in the way which the bishop would take)
3. Ne2#
The first answers lose because the bishop would take Black’s queen after Nxe3.
More instructive would be:
… Qg2+
Kxg2 Nf4! Discovered double check
Kg1 Nh3 Checkmate
Better:
1 … Qg2+
2. Kxg2 Nf4+
3. Kg1 Nh3#
Anonymous 5:25 and 6:12, Nxe3 doesn’t work because of BxQ. What works is Qg2, followed by the double check Nf4, driving the K back to g1, and then Nh3.
My first instinct was to play Qh1+
and then come ion with the d5 knight
exposing the discovered check from
the bishop at b7, but the simple f3
stymies the attack. Upon further
examination we see that Qg2+ is
better because the knight comes in
with a double check forcing the king
to move back to g1 because f3 only
blocks one check.
1. …Qg2+
2.Kxg2 nf4 dbl+
3.Kg1 Nh3#
To the 5:25 and 6:12 posters, Nxe3
fails to Bxf3 and no more queen to
deliver mate 🙂
POR DIOS… NXF3 AND WHITE QUEEN IS TAKEDBY THE BISHOP OF H5..ESTAIS MAS CIEGOS!!
Win by force!
1…Qg2+!! 2.Kxg2 Nf4+ 3.Kg1 Nh3+# mate….
You are so wrong! First the queen sac, then the night move simultaneously having discovered check and exit squares covered by the night, It is futile at that point to interpose a bishop for instance.
In fact, that is what is wrong with the baby talk above. NxB first gives rise to BxQ and then the exchange is B+R for Q+N which means white wins.
1….Qg2!!
2Kxg2 Nf4ch
3Kg1 Nh3 +
Very nice – VladD Toronto
no no no Bxf3 ruins Nxe3. Qg2+ Kxg2, Nf4+ followed by Nf3++
Mate in three:
1. Qg2+!! Kxg2
2. Nf4++ Kg1
3. Ne2#
No variations as all white’s moves are forced.
1. QH1+ – Kxh1
2. Nf4+ – Kg1
3. Nh3#
1.Qg2+…Kxg2
2.Nf4++…Kg1
3.Nh3 mate
Qg2! followed by Nf4 and Ne2 Mates easily. I remember Smyslov having a simmilar position with Botvinnik..but without the mate..haha.