White to move. Is this a win, draw, or loss for White?
1q3k2/2b2p1p/8/6Q1/1p6/4B3/1K6/8 w – – 0 1
Troitsky 1930, presented by Andreas
Endgame challenge
White to move. Is this a win, draw, or loss for White?
1q3k2/2b2p1p/8/6Q1/1p6/4B3/1K6/8 w – – 0 1
Troitsky 1930, presented by Andreas
How about Bc5 check followed by Q e5. That should do it.
Get real. Wake up. Who cares about these useless puzzles, except a few bloggers that want to show how little they know about the game?
arimpin
Bd5 appearss a strong move. I could not find a mate for white, but it gobbled up two black pawns.
Isn’t Bc5 followed by Bd6 by black?
Interesting geometry.
Bc5+ Bd6 Qf6 and if Bxc5 then Qh8+ winning the black queen.
“Get real. Wake up. Who cares about these useless puzzles, except a few bloggers that want to show how little they know about the game? arimpin”
“susan stop insulting our intelligence we are not idiots. put some decent puzzles please the average player is 1800 strength this is like a 1400 strength puzzle. use common sense”
Guys, if you don’t like this blog, go somewhere else! But please stop insulting Susan Polgar, OK?
I go also to chessgames.com, a very popular website, and they vary the difficulty of their daily puzzles as well. If the puzzles were always difficult, players of lower strength would feel left out. If the puzzles were always easy, stronger players would get bored. So the natural and logical solution is what she is doing; varying the difficulty of the puzzles every day. Enjoy the geometry of it, but please do not patronize with your condescending attitude. Please have some respect for someone who is singlehandedly doing more for chess in the US than anyone else.
Kamalakanta
**anon 8:10:00 PM **
why dont you solve it first?
**anon 8:49:00 PM **
>>Bc5+ Bd6 Qf6 and if Bxc5 then Qh8+ winning the black queen.
not sure whether it works. For example 1. bc5 bd6 2. qf6 kg8 3. bxd6 qb5 4. be5 (4. qe7 h5 5. qf8 kh7 6. qf7 kh8 anf i dont see a #) qe2+ and i am not sure there is noperpetual probably there is
2. qe5 should win f6! 3. bxd6+ kg7 4. qg3
devil in details 🙂
the game yesterday between gustaffgson and morozevich will make for a good endgame puzzle. not sure whether black could force a win. susan, can you provide us with the right continuation?
You patzers should be able to see bc5+ bd6 qe5 kg8 bxd6 qd8 qg3+ f6 qg5. absolutely pathetic you guys suck balls/
How about 1. Bc5+ Bd6 2. Qh6+ Ke8 3. Bxd6 after which if queen is moved, then 4. Qf8+ else 4. Bxb8 both of which are clearly winning continuations for white.
1.Bc5+ Bd6 2.Qe5! and wins!
Bc5+ Bd6, Qh6+ Ke7 not Ke8?
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Annon &7:46 aka arimpin
you must be from SF, ’cause you sure sound gay.
I put your playing strength two notches below patzer and one notch above fish.
Get a life and enjoy chess for the beautiful game it is.
More importantly, be a gentlemen to the good looking women, to many leave because of Jerks like you