Black to move and win. How should Black proceed?
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Matokhin – Kuzmin
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Black to move and win. How should Black proceed?
8/5p1k/4p1p1/3p2K1/3P1Q1P/P4P2/7q/8 b – – 0 1
Matokhin – Kuzmin
That was difficult …
1…f6+ (2. Q:f6 Qg3#, 2. K:f6 Q:f4) 2. Kg4 Qg2+ 3. Qg3 f5+ 4. Kf4 e5+ (!) 5. de Qd2#
1. …. f6+
2. Qxf6 Qg3#
if 2. Kxf6, then 2… Qxf4+ 0-1
without …f6, black would be lost!
did white blunder, or did Kuzmin force this position?
missed white’s Kg4, but it too loses.
1. … f6+
2. Kg4 Qg2+
3. Qg3 f5+
4. Kf4 e5+!
5. dxe5 Qd2#
other moves by white lose the queen.
…Qg2+; Qg4, f6+; Kxf6, QxQ
f6 check looks winning whatever white does.
f6 Kg4 (best)
Qg2 Qg3
f5 Kf4
e5 de
Qd2 mate
Alternatives for black all lose queen or get mated
1. f6+ ?
1. .. f6+
If 2. Qxf6 Qg3++
If 2. Kxf6 QxQf4
am LR,AR
my try: 1… f6+ 2.Qxf6 Qg3 checkmate (if 2.Kxf6 Qxf4+)
1. … f6 +
If 2. Qx f6 Q g3 #
If 2. Kx f6 Q x f4 +
Seems to me the start has to be f6
1. …..f6
2. Kg4
This is forced as Qf6 loses immediately to Qg3#
2. …..Qg2 (Qg1 3. Kh3, then?)
3. Qg3 f5
4. Kf4 Qd2
5. Ke5 Qe3
6. Kf6 and now what?
The other idea is to not go for a mating net, but seal up the king side with 1. …f6, exchange queens, and get the black king over to stop/win the passed a-pawn, but this does not work:
1. …..f6
2. Kg4 Qg2
3. Qg3 Qg3
4. Kg3 Kg7
5. a4 Kf7
6. a5 Ke7
7. a6 Kd7
8. a7 Kc6 and black is too late.
1. f6
1….f6+ and if a) 2.Kxf6 Qxf4+, or b) 2.Qxf6 Qg3 mate.
Kamalakanta
f6+. If Kxf6 Qxf4 if Qxf6 Qg3.
1…f6 check wins
F7-F6, if white Queen takes F6, then Black Queen moves to G3 mate.
If White’s King takes F6 pawn, then Black Queen takes White Queen.
It cost me some minutes:
1. … f6+
2. Kg4 Qg2+
3. Qg3 f5+
4. Kf4 Qd2++
Once you have figured out, it looks easy, but it was difficult to find.
1 .. f6+!
2 Kg4 (2 Kxf6 Qxf4+, 2 Qxf6 Qg3#) Qg2+
3 Qg3 f5+
4 Kf4 e5+!
5 dxe5 (5 Kxe5 Qxg3+) Qd2#
1…f6+ 2.Kg4 Qg2+ 3.Qg3 f5+ 4.Kf4 e5+! 5.dxe5 Qd2 mate
Stupid mistake in my previous post: after 4. … Qd2+ 5. Ke5 the Queen doesn’t get to c7 of course…
So, we have to improve the idea: instead of 4. … Qd2+ we play
4. … e5+!
5. de5: Qd2#
Profelo
…f6+! is winning move for black
It’s probably about winning the queen but can’t find it.
Oh, I put the position in my engine and shame on me, I found all the moves except of the last one, I should work on my visuality.
1…f6+
2.Kg4 Qg2+
3.Qg3 f5+
4.Kf4 e5+
f6+ and white will either lose the queen or get mated. Very nice!
Beelze
…f6+
Rg4 (if Rxf6 QxQ) Qg1+
Qg3 (the only possibility) Qxd4+
I think that’s the idea
MVP
1… f6+ 2. Kxf6 Qxf4+ 3. Kxe6
Qxd4 4. Kd6 Qf6+ 5. Kc5 Qxf3 6. a4 Qe4 7. a5 Qc4+ 8. Kb6 d4 9. a6 d3 10. a7 d2 11. a8=Q d1=Q 12. Qb7+ Kh6 13. Qc6 Qd8+ 14. Kb7 Qb4+ 15. Ka7
Qdd4+ 16. Ka8 Qa1+ 17. Qa4 Qaxa4#
interesting…
1. …, f6+
2. Kg4, Qg2+
3. Qg3, f5+
and black captures queen
1. … Qh2-c2
–br
1. Qg1+ Qg4 2. f6+ and white loses queen