White to move. What is the most precise continuation for White?
1rq2nk1/1p3rp1/5p2/3N1b2/p6p/P6P/1PP2QB1/1K1R2R1 w – – 0 1
Find the best path
White to move. What is the most precise continuation for White?
1rq2nk1/1p3rp1/5p2/3N1b2/p6p/P6P/1PP2QB1/1K1R2R1 w – – 0 1
I don’t know the solution.
I am failing to understand how a weak player who doesn’t play chess can judge if positions between grand masters are a draw and make them play on? See http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=5795 for more details. Are chess players really without the courage to say anything about it?
1.Nb6 Qc7 2.Qxf5 Qxb6 3.Bd5+-
I like 1. Nb6. 1…. Qe6 2. Bd5 wins an exchange. 1…. Qc7 2. Q:f5 Q:b6 3. Bd5 also wins an exchange. Both also have the merit of easing the attack on c2.
Geoffrey Borg is a FM. He’s a master dude. Not by any means a weak player. And any FM can analyze a game with 2700+ strength with the help of a computer.
I first looked at 1.Be4 Be4: 2.Nf6:+ Rf6: (actually it seems 2.-Kh8 also works, couldn’t find a mate) 3.Qf6:, but how to continue after 3.-Qc7 ?
My next idea (and I will stick with it unless there is something better) is 1.Nb6!? [counter-intuitive, as the action seems to be on the kingside] 1.-Qc7 (1.-Qe6 2.Bd5) 2.Qf5: Qb6: 3.Bd5 picking up an exchange, or maybe more.
(1)Be4 Bxb4 (2)Nc6+ Kh8 (3)Qh4+ Bh7 (4)Qh7++
If white could divert the black queen, the f5 bishop would be hanging. In addition, if the d5 knight were moved, the f7 rook could be pinned by Bd5. Combining these ideas,
1. Nb6 Qe6
2. Bd5 Qb6
3. Bf7 Kf7
4. Qf5 winning the exchange.
I don’t see any other line for black that doesn’t lose the exchange.
Prathap,
What about 2 … RxN
It seems like there should be something to
1. Nf6+ RxN
2. Bd5+ Be6
3. Qg2
but I don’t see the right continuaiton after
3. … g6
I don’t know why some people keep on inventing their own move notation instead of using the standard one.
I know the solution, but I don’t tell you what it is!
What about 1.Qxf5 Qxf5 2.Ne7, winning the bishop? Or did I miss a mate again?
And yeah, I don’t like the “alternative” notations either, certainly the ones that look like a mix between descriptive and algebraic notation.
Kind regards,
PdV
That doesn’t work… Rxe7!
That doesn’t work… Rxe7!
Nb6 is the best to start…
Okay,I tell you:
1. Nb6+- … you see why?
1.Qxf5?? Qxf5 2.Ne7 Rxe7
Brown,
3. Qg2 Rg6 can force white to exchange the rook
It seems (1)Nb6 is good move than Be4
(1)Nb6 Qc7 (2)Qxf5 Qxb6 (3)Bd5 Rd8 (4)Bxf7+ Kf7
Pdv,
(1)Qxf5??? is poor move
(1)Qxf5 Qxf5 (2)Ne7 Rxe7 you end up losing your queen.
The black queen is tied to the defence of the bishop so Nb6 followed by Bd5 come to mind.
Thanks everybody for pointing that out, I noticed too after I posted my “solution”… Some acute case of chess blindness I guess 😉
PdV