White to move. How can White save this game? No computer analysis please 🙂
2K5/6p1/2kp1pN1/3p1P2/1p1B3p/1P2p3/1P5p/8 w – – 0 3
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I think:
1. Ne7+ Kb5
2. Kb7 h1=Q
3. Nxd5
if
3. … Q moves
4. Nc7+ Ka5
5. Bb6 mate
if
3. … Ka5
4. Bb6+ Kb5
5, Nc7 mate
1. Ne7 Kb5 2. Kb7 puts the black king in a mating net.
2…h1=Q 3. Nc8 and black is helpless against 4. Na7 and 5. Bb6 mate.
My previous post fails since the new queen controls the d5 square..so I think this is the win:
1. Ne7+ Kb5
2. Kb7 h1=Q
3. Nc8! mate next move
1.Ne7+ seems to lead to mate
1…Kb5
2.Kb7! h1=Q
3.Nc8 and black cant defend both Nxe6+ and Na7+ followed by Bb6#
Well, white cannot stop black from queening h-pawn. So, white has to find a way to mate black with black’s queen on the board. It seems, fortunately, that white indeed has a way to achieve this:
1. Ne7+! Kb5 (only move)
2. Kb7!! (restricting black king and making room for his knight on c8)
2….h1Q
3. Nc8 with the threats of Na7# and Nxd6#. Black queen can not stop both these mates at the same time.
Hope I did not miss anything here 🙂
1.Ne7+ Kb5 2.Kb7 h1Q
[2…Ka5 3.Bb6+ Kb5 4.Nc6 h1Q 5.Na7#]
3.Nc8
[3.Nc6 Qa1 4.Na7 Qxa1]
3…Qa1 4.Nxd6#
– SS
Ne7 Kb6
Kb7 a1=Q
Nc8
and white has two mating metthods and black can only prevent one
Na7 and Bb6
or
Nxd6 and Bb6
This is an easy puzzle and if I reached this positionin a game I am sure I would find it.
But if I was analysing a line that led to this position I probably wouldn’t have glanced twice at it, and would have written the line off as winning for black. One of the many reasons I am not a GM 🙂
Don’t see where the difficulty lies in this one. After obvious 1. Ne7+, Black’s 1… Kb5 is forced. Then 2. Kb7 cuts off all escape squares from the Black king except a5, which the bishop will take care of. Then if Black plays 2… h1=Q, White plays 3. Nc8, ready to deliver check on d6 or a7 depending on what Black does next. If Black plays 3… Qh2 to prevent Nxd6+, then White plays 4. Na7+ with mate next move. If Black plays 3… Qa1 to prevent Na7+, then White plays 4. Nxd6+ with mate next move. If Black starts out by trying to promote the e-pawn, Cinderella may turn into a princess, but too late to save the game. White still plays 1. Ne7+, 2. Kb7, 3. Nxd6+ or 3. Na7+ (doesn’t matter which) and mate next move (4. Bb6#).
Lucy
1.Ne7+ Kb5 2.Kb7 h1(Q) 3.Nc8 threatening 4.Na7+ or 4.Nxd6+ and 5.Bb6#
mmh, because I always solve (or misunderstand) these problems during my office time 😉 I have to calculate everything without a board.
I suggest:
1. Ne7+ Kb5
2. Kb7 h1Q
3. Nc8 Qa1
4. Nd6 mate
3. Qh2
4. Ba7 mate