White to move. How should white proceed?
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White to move. How should white proceed?
1. e5 is a key move Rg6
2. Qg4+ Qxg4
3. hxg4+ Kxg4
4. Rxg6 Kf5
5. exd6 Kxg6
6. d7 Kf5
7. d8=Q it’s a winning position for white
or
1. e5 dxe5
2. Qh4#
or
1. e5 Rf4
2. gxf4 it’s a winning position for white
Just a couple of items:
1. e5 de5 leads to mate starting with 2.Qh4, as does 1. e5 Rf5.
Yancey you remember that problem where you accused me of getting a mate wrong? Alena went off the critical line at move 4 if I remember correctly because she missed a sacrificial decoy move that was maybe too subtle for a computer program to consider (There was a crosspin resulting in a won endgame after Rxd7 which I didn’t comment on at the time because I thought chess admin would react with endgame problems if I couldn’t see that it was a win but she did anyway) and also when Alena got criticized by Paulius after that pawn promotion problem he gave a line which ended in Qf4# when that wasn’t mate but Qc8# was mate and somebody playing at the strength that Alena appears to be playing at would have been unlikely to resist the temptation to stomp on him for that and you know the way that online computer analysis of games gives an infinity score or something for a certain mate without saying exactly how long it is to mate and Alena thought Qh4 was mate and I think Alena is a fake and whether that’s true or not I’m going to get up to speed and try to shut out everybody who wants to play the getting on first game. Karthik if you’re reading this get back here and sharpen your game razor sharp and give me some back up for when I’m too slow off the mark.
James Attewell you have just hurt my feelings. You are not a gentleman.
Yes, I need to work on how caring I am a lot but I’m autistic and I’m very badly addicted to hiding away from people and I’m not getting any help with that so it’s difficult to get off the ground. But you deserve to be loved for who you are (said a James with more potential notoriety than Jesus and just slightly hiding that) and you don’t have to pretend to be someone you’re not in order to deserve that.
Alena has probably already done the critical variation for this but
1.e5 threatening Qh4+ gxh4 g4+ Qxg4 hxg4#
1…. Rg6 and now the immediate capture Rxg6 can be met by dxe5 depriving White of a potential powerful passed pawn gained by exd6
2.g4+ Kh4
3.Rxg6 fxg6 because White was threatening Rxh6#
4.exd6 Qa8 (4… Kxh3 can be met by 5.Qe3)
5.d7 Qd8 (5… Kxh3 6.Qe3+ and 7.Qe8 hopefully works)
6.Qd6 threatens Qg3# which can only be delayed not stopped.
2. g4 may be technically superior, but I like the simplicity of 2.Qg4 since there are probably fewer ways to go wrong afterwards.
Yes, I missed that.
Sorry I probably outsmarted myself with my attack on Alena.
The background to that was that I was trying to get Karthik back on with my stupid also ran game, except he really wasn’t going to like that, and I thought maybe Alena might interpret it as me trying to create a way for her to get credit for getting the problem right without getting too much attention from Brian who seemed to be a bit over-possessive towards her, so I was kind of being deceitful towards her by not saying that it wasn’t for that reason at all. And then Yancey said “Well done Alena” on a mate in 2 problem where Alena had missed a couple of lines of play and I was feeling that was unfair and at that point started to project my own intended deceitfulness onto Alena and started to consider the possibility that she was using computer assistance to some extent because why would she have missed out on some solutions if she was thinking for herself?
And then after that I was looking for circumstantial evidence and the big problem with circumstantial evidence is that it might be a consequence of something or it might just be a random event, so if you keep looking for circumstantial evidence for long enough you’re eventually going to find a random event that looks like circumstantial evidence.
So I was probably being unfair.
Sometimes I’m a bit lazy to write some variations and sometimes I want others to find variations by themselves.
I’m sorry I was being unfair to your feelings.
Is there another another Brian? I was being “over-possessive towards” Alena? First of all, I have never met Alena, but would like to play her sometime. Of course, Alena could be a man, who I would also like to play sometime. Second, proper English would dictate “overly possessive.” Use an adverb (overly) to modify an adjective (possessive). No hyphen is needed.
Alena is right again,
1.e4 is probably the best move.
1… dxe4
2. Qh4+, gxh4,
3. g4+, Qxg4+
4. hxg4#
If 1….Rg6
2. Qg4+ Qxg4
3. hxg4+ Kxg4
4. Rxg6
If 4…fxg6
5. exd6 and black can’t stop white from queening the d pawn.
If 4…Kf5
5. exd6 and black can’t stop white from queening.
If 1… Re6
2. Qh4+ like before…
If 1…Rf4
White can just take the rook and black is sunk.
2.gxf4, Black doesn’t have an immediate check. Black can take the h pawn or the f4 pawn.
If 2…Qxh3,
3. Maybe white can play confidently Qxd6, or perhaps safer Rg2, threatening Rh2 – winning the Queen for the rook.
One weaker line for white, because it leads to perpetual checks is:
1. Rd8, Qd1+
Another dicey line:
1.h4, gxh4
2. Qd5+, Rf5
3. Qxf5+, so black can’t take pawn 1… gxh4
1…Qd1+
2. Kh2, Qf3
3. Rxg5+, hxg5
4. Qxg5#
so 2… Qf3 is wrong
2. …Qg4
3. Qd4, Re6
4. hxg5,
If 4…hxg5
5.Rh8+,Rh6
6. Qg7, Rxh8
7. Qxh8, Kg6
8. Qg8+ Kf6
9. Qd8+ Ke5 There are many choices for black along the way the king needed to avoid e6, because of Qc8
10. Qe7+ Kd4
11. Qxd6+ Kc3
12. Qa3+ This looks better for white, but nothing as good as Alena’s first line.