White to move. How can White save this game?
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White to move. How can White save this game?
4R3/kp3p2/pb6/q3B3/2P2p2/1P6/P5rp/1K1Q4 w – – 0 1
Bb8+ Ka8
Bc7+ Ka7
Ra8+ Kxa8
Qd8+ Ka7
Qb8++
took me longer to post the solution than to solve it.. thats a 20 second problem..
Bb8 – Ka8
Bc7 – Ka7
Ra8+ -KxR8
Qd8 – Ka7
Qb8 #
I can’t find a mate, so I think best is:
1. Bb8+ Ka8
2. Bxf4+ Ka7
3. Bb8+ Ka8
4. Bxh2+ Ka7
Removes Black’s promotion threat.
5. Bb8+ Ka8
6. Bd6+ Ka7
7. c5 Bxc5
8. Bb8+ Kb6
9. Bc7+ KxB
10. Qd8+ winning the Black Queen.
Can’t we run a windmill with Bb8 then back after Qa8 ?
Following my previous comment, I have just realised that Black can respond with
7. … Bc7
I think a better continuation from the original position is
1. Bb8 Ka8
2. Bc7+! Ka7
3. Ra8+! Kxa8
4. Qd8+ Ka7
5. Qb8#
So there’s mate after all.
replay
1. Bb8+ Ka8
2. Bc7+ Ka7
3. Ra8+ Kxa8
4. Qd8+ Ka7
5. Qb8#
Well, first, it’s a draw with
1. Bb8+ Ka8
2. Bc7+ Ka7 back and forth, but with the Bishop on c7 blocking the d8 square from the black bishop and queen, now white gets to replace the rook with the queen, which mates:
3. Ra8+ Kxa8
4. Qd8+ Ka7
5. Qb8#
white has a way to enable a queen check on the back rank to take advantage of the black king’s restricted mobility:
Bb8+ Ka8
Bc7+ Ka7
Ra8+ Kxa8
Qd8+ Ka7
Qb8 mate
you cannot play
7. c5 due to Qxa2+ and Qb2+ mate
looks like draw by perpetual check for white.
1. Bb8+ Ka8 2. Bc7+ (blocking the diagonal) Ka7 3. Ra8+ Kxa8 4. Qd8+ Ka7 5. Qb8#
Khairie Hisyam: 7. c5 allows the mate after 7. … Qxa2+.
Bb8-Bc7-Ra8-Qd8-Qb8 all with checks and presto.
Easy:
1. Bb8+ Ka8
2. Bc7+! Ka7
3. Ra8+ Kxa8
4. Qd8+ Ka7
5. Qb8#
Bb8
Bc7
Ra8
Qd8
Qb8#
1 Ra8+ Kxa8, 2 Qd8+ doesn’t work, because the Queen can be captured by the Bishop.
White wins by first cutting off the Black Bishop’s access to d8.
1 Bb8+ Ka8
2 Bc7+!
The point of the maneuver. White’s Bishop now stands in the way of Black’s Bishop, making the ensuing combination possible.
2 … Ka7
3 Ra8+! Kxa8
4 Qd8+
This is now safe, thanks to the Bishop blocking Black from this square.
4 … Ka7
5 Qa8#.
1.Bb8+ Ka8 2.Bc7+ Ka7 3.Ra8+ Kxa8 4.Qd8+ Ka7 5.Qb8#.
Forced lines often work! Bb8+ Ka8 Bc7+ Ka7 Ra8+!
1. Bb8+ Ka8
2. Bc7+ Ka7
3. Ra8+ Kxa8
4. Qd8+ Ka7
5. Qb8++
I think rather than going to take the passed pawn on h file White can go for the mate.
1.Bb8+ Ka8
2.Bxf4+ Ka7
3.Bc7+ Ka7
4.Ra8+! Kxa8
5.Qd8+ Ka7
6.Qb8#
or
1.Bb8+ Ka8
2.Bxf4+ Bd8
3.Rxd8+ Qxd8 (if 3…Ka7 4.Qd4+ wins)
4.Qxd8+ Ka7
5.Bxb6+ Kb7
6.Qc7+ Ka8
7.Qa7#
Its a mate in 5 moves;
1.Ba7+ Ka8
2.Bb7+ Ka7
3.Ra8+ Kxa8
4.Qc8+ Ka7
5.Kb8++
There is a direct mate.
Bb8+ Ka8
Bc7+ Ka7
Ra8+ Kxa8
Qd8+ (d8 square no longer controlled by Black B) Ka7
Qb8#
1. Bb8+ Ka8
2. Bc7+! Ka7
3. Ra8+ Kxa8
4. Qd8+ Ka7
5. Qb8++
Bb8+ Ka8
Bc7+ Ka7
Ra8+ KxR
Qd8+ Ka7
Qb8 matehH32thc0ck
Look easy. Hope this is correct.
1. Bb8+ Ka8
2. Bc7+ (blocking the d8 square) Ka7
3. Ra8+ Kxa8
4. Qd8 and mate on b8. 🙂
Bb8+ Ka8
Bc7+ Ka7
Ra8+ KxR
Qd8+ Ka7
Qb8 mateh
1.Bb8+ Ka8
2.Bc7+ Ka7
3.Ra8+ Ka8
4.Qd8+ Ka7
5.Qb8#
Bb8 Ka8
Bc7 Ka7
Ra1+ Kxa1
Qd8+ ka7
Qb7++
1. Bb8+ Ka8 2.Bc7+ Ka7 3.Ra8+ K:a8 4.Qd8+ Ka7 5.Qb8 #
1. Bb8+ Ka8
2. Bc7+(blocking the action of black bishop in d8) Ka7
3. Ra8!+ Kxa8
4. Qd8+ Ka7
5. Qb8#
Mate in 5
1 Bb8+ Ka8
2 Bc7+ Ka7
3 Ra8+ Kxa8
4 Qd8+ Ka7
5 Qb8#
Yeah wolverine is correct. It took me longer to post the solution.
1. Bb8+ Ka8
2. Bc7 dis.check Ka7
3. Ra8+ Ka8
4. Qd8+ Ka7
5. Qb8
1. Bb8+, Ka8 2. Bc7+, Ka7 3. Ra8+, Kxa8 4. Qd8+, Ka7 5. Qb8#
1. Bb8+ Ka8
2. Bc7+ Ka7
3. Ra8+ Ka8
4. Qd8++
How To “KNOCKOUT” king black in 5 STEPS for this game?
1.Bb8+ Ka8
2.Bc7+ Ka7
3.Ra8+ Kxa8
4.Qd8+ Ka7
5.Qb8#
– High Skill From MR KO (Malaysian)
Surely
1. Bb8 Ka8
2. Bc7 Ka7
3. Ra8+ Kxa8
4. Qd8+ Ka7
5. Qb8#
Everyone is complicating themselves.
1. Bb8+ Ka8
2. Bc7+ Ka7
3. Ra8 Kxa8
4. Qd8+ Ka7
5. Qb8++
Find a way to block the bishop at b6, make sure the king is on the 8th rank, and the queen can infiltrate and mate:
1. Bb8 Ka8
2. Bc7! Ka7
3. Ra8! Ka8
4. Qd8 Ka7
5. Qb8#
Try this …
1. Bb8+ Ka8
2. Bc7+ Ka7
3. Ra8+ Kxa8
4. Qd8+ Ka7
5. Qb8 mate
As so many times before, what I immediatately (first seconds) see in the diagram, is an illusion.
The rook sack Ra8+ looked good, until I saw that Qd8+ of cource isn’t possible.
But, it has happened me so often before, that such an initial illusion actually becomes truth after a couple of other moves first. I don’t know why, is it magic?
So, i immediately starts looking for some move that makes Qd8 possible!!
And, here it comes. Black has only one legal answer to all my moves.
1. Bb8+ Ka8
2. Bc7+ (this is the magic 🙂 Ka7
3. Ra8+ Kxa8
4. Qd8+ Ka7
5. Qb8#
Enforced mate in 5 it is.