Black to move. How should Black proceed?
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Black to move. How should Black proceed?
Boy does this one look familiar to Toppy!
43…Bd4!!
Yep! I don’t think I would have found the solution if I hadn’t been following Topov’s game earlier, but Bd4 it is.
but why 46…Qf3 instead of 46…Qg2 straight away?
He probably saw the win with Qf3 (ending up a piece up) and didn’t bother looking for a different win (the mate in 5).
anonymous: 46. … Qf3+! was a great move to deflect white knight from the protection of the f4 pawn. The idea is that there is no mate in sight, so black just use tactics to win piece in this forced variant:
46. … Qf3+! 47. Ng3 Qg2+ 48. Kh4 Qh2+ 49. Bh3 Ng2+ 50. Kg4 51. Qxh3+! 52. Kxh3 Nxf4+ with fork on white K+Q. (this is why Topalov resigned after move 47.)
43…f1=Q Oh wait, the diagram is upside down 🙂
FM Gabriel Curi from Uruguay
1…Qd7 followed by any Nxc5 looks like wining to me
Q:e2+ is just ending in a draw, isn’t it?
I just can find such “easy” (and bad) moves, not so great ones as Bd4.
Wow.
Jochen
Qxe2+, Bxe2 or Qxe2, then two knights pile on f4, black will be up one pawn.
Darn I guessed Qxe2.. which I guess is too flashy
simplest win is probably Qxe2 Qxe2 Nxf4 Bxf4 Nxf4 Kf2 Nxe2 Kxe2 Bb4 Bd7 Bxc5 Bxc6 Be7 and it seems like PPBK should win over BK
Black should play Chancellor to h4, checkmate! Oh sorry, you can only do that in Gothic Chess 🙂
The tempting Ndxc5+ leads to equality 🙁
Rgds M.
46. … Qf3 will be a good move; but I tried 46. … Qg2 with my shredder and it’s a mate in 5:
46. … Qg2+
47. Kh4 Qh2+
48. Bh3 Qf2+
49. Ng3 Qxf4+
50. Bg4 Qxg4#
46. … Qf3 will be a good move; but I tried 46. … Qg2 with my shredder and it’s a mate in 5:
46. … Qg2+
47. Kh4 Qh2+
48. Bh3 Qf2+
49. Ng3 Qxf4+
50. Bg4 Qxg4#
46. … Qf3 will be a good move; but I tried 46. … Qg2 with my shredder and it’s a mate in 5:
46. … Qg2+
47. Kh4 Qh2+
48. Bh3 Qf2+
49. Ng3 Qxf4+
50. Bg4 Qxg4#
In reply to anonymous above, bishop and two connected pwans against opposite-coloured bishop is actually a draw.
A hard move to see, …Bd4, because of course you’re thinking of the bishop going to d2.
Percy
“Qxe2+, Bxe2 or Qxe2, then two knights pile on f4, black will be up one pawn.”
“simplest win is probably Qxe2 Qxe2 Nxf4 Bxf4 Nxf4 Kf2 Nxe2 Kxe2 Bb4 Bd7 Bxc5 Bxc6 Be7 and it seems like PPBK should win over BK”
First I thought (yesterday) white would be two pawns up…. even then I would not be sure if black couldn’t hold that.
Your lines are easily drawn because of the bishops which are from opposite field-colours.
In these endgames one pawn is seldom enough especially when there are so few pawns!
Jochen
Topalov walked right into a knight fork… that was a terrible blunder 🙁
I hope he recovers fast… he needs a win to regain confidence after disaster in Linares this year.