White to move. How should white proceed?
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White to move. How should white proceed?
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Be1
Susan, these puzzles are always fun, but why don’t you add your own feedback after a short time? I am by no means a great player, and much more of an enthusiast. I would love to use these opportunities to learn from you@
I saw 1.Bg6 almost instantly as a possible move, but there are a number of replies to be dealt with. I will cover the major ones:
1. Bg6 fg6
2. Qe4 Bg7 (preparing the shield)
3. Qg6 Qc3 (guarding the bishop)
4. Bd4 and black loses the queen for two pieces for certain, and maybe gets mated here, I just don’t want to analyze it that deep.
Now, at move 1, black can protect f7 with Rf8 or Re7, or he can cut the line of white’s rook by drawing the bishop back to e7. I think white can just take at h5 in all of these and have won 2 pawns and a powerful and probably decisive attack.
White has a raging attack and black is paralyzed with no counter play.
1.Bxg6!.fxg.2.Qe4!
>A-2…..Rf8.3.Qxg6+ and mate next move Qg/h7#
>B-2…..Re7.3.Qxg6+.Rg7.4.Qxf6.Rxd7.(not 4….Ne8.5.Qxe6+, and white will win easily with 3 pawns up, continuing mating attack with Rd1 and Bd4.).5.cxd and white will win at least the rook and will mate with Bd4 Rd1 etc if needed
>C-2…..Be7.3.Qxg6+.Kh1.4.Bd4+.e5.5.Bxe5+.Bf6.6.Bxf6#
Harry
Just as a post script to my solution of 1.Bxg6! If black does not recapture at g6 white can play Bxh5 winning another pawn to be 2 pawns up for a easy win even after exchanges.
Harry
1. Bxg6! fxg6 What else? if
1. … Rf8
2. Bxh5 and White is three pawns up, with a persistent attack.
2. Qc2 Re7 Black is totally helpless. Square g6 cannot be defended, and to prevent checkmate on f7 or h7 Black must try to block the seventh rank from the white rook, which is not possible without losing Bf6.
3. Qxg6+ Rg7
3. … Bg7 4. Rxe7 Ne8 5. Bd4 +-
4. Qxf6 Ne8
5. Rxg7+ Nxg7
6. Rb7 Rc7
7. Qd8+ Kh7
8. Qxc7 +-
Susan I agree you need to also put solutions and maybe reward winners. Just putting up a puzzle without solutions is not good enough.
1. Bxg6 Rf8 (1…..fxg6 2. Qf5 Re7 3. Qxg6+ Rg7 4. Qxf6) 2. Bxh5 should win
1.Rb7 Re7 2.Be1 Qa3 3.Rd3 Qa6 4.Qxa6 Nxa6 5.Rxe7 Bxe7 6.Rd7 Bf8 7.Rxa7 Nb8 8.a4 Nxc6 9.Bxc6 Rxc6 10.Ra5
1. Bxg6
Bx6 seems to be a powerful move, to be followed by white queen taking the square vacated by the bishop. Seems to be somehow unstoppable…
f5 looks good but probably wrong. After exf5, Qxf7+ and after Kh8, Qh7#. However, if black does not capture the f pawn then it gets too complicated for me to follow. 🙁
Bg6! after fg6, then Qe4! the rest are easy…
1Be1 2Rd3 trap the queen
1.Bxg6 fxg6 2.Qe4 looks powerful. 3.Qxg6 will follow. I do not see how black will defend this.
White enjoys high degree of space advantage.He has R on 7th rank,R in open file and 2 bishops.Black is constricted.His Q is cut off from the rest.K side is weak because of h5. His only advantage is control of long diagonal by B. in spite of all these there seem to be no clear cut line of winning. Can his Q be trapped?It requires blocking escape through a6.For this white has to play Bd3.it should be followed by a4 and then Be1.but black can play Qc3 and have some respite.Combining attack on K side as well as trapping the Q could be tried.I have tried many variations wherein white goes to build superior positions sometimes winning extra piece but it is difficult to present them all.