White to move. How should white proceed?
IM Kaplan – Rosenberg
2012 Final Four
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White to move. How should white proceed?
IM Kaplan – Rosenberg
2012 Final Four
Qf5 check followed by Qd3 check for the stalemate?
Ouch..that had to hurt if white found it.
Mike M
Qf5+
Qf5+ (any capture leads to stalemate). So, Ke3 is forced.
Now Qf2+. Black is forced to capture the queen. However, any capture leads to stalemate. So it’s a draw.
Stalemate motif!
1. Qf5+ Ke3 2. Qf2+ Qxf2
1Qf5 2Qe4 stalemate
1Qf5 2Qe4 stalemate
i’m not going to give any lines, as the imminent stalemate threat is obvious and the white queen is free to check the black king from close range, as long as it doesn’t allow itself to be taken by the black queen or the pawn on h3. but that won’t be hard to avoid. the king is never going to escape all those checks.
greets, jan
1Qf5+ should draw.
I can’t get a win from here. At best I can get a draw by stalemate by continuously attacking the Black King with the Queen from a capturable position starting with Qf5+. Black takes the Queen and it results in a stalemate.
Qf5+ seems to me is the move.
Luis.
Qe2 and draws.
If black takes, it’s stalemate. White needs to keep chasing the king, not allowing the queen to capture.
White’s king is immobilized on h1. If he can force black to take the white queen without checkmate or with the black queen on any square other than f2, then he has a draw by stalemate. White can check from e2, b1, and f5, but it is easy to see what white must do:
1. Qf5! Ke3 (gf5/Ng5 draws)
2. Qf2! Qf2 draws.
Qf1-f5-f2 forces a stalemate, I believe
White is losing so his best chance is to draw, e.g.:
1. Qf5+ Ke3
2. Qe4+ Kf2
3. Qe2+ ….