White to move. Can you find the quickest checkmating plan for White?
4Q3/qp3rk1/2r4p/p2p2p1/4P3/P3N1R1/1bP5/1K5R w – – 0 1
Yifan Hou – Ju Wenjun, 2006
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1.Rxg5+ should do the job.
At first I thought this was a repost, but there is a couple slight differences. Without looking too deep I would imagine the same strategy would work…
http://susanpolgar.blogspot.com/2008/09/middlegame-tactic.html
I intuitively jumped on Rxg5+ without a second thought, and when I calculated it through, voilà, it worked. Now I want to know why my brain saw it before my mind did. (Or was it the other way around?) I’m beginning to recognize patterns more regularly from these exercises. Thanks, Susan.
I intuitively jumped on Rxg5+ without a second thought, and when I calculated it through, voilà, it worked. Now I want to know why my brain saw it before my mind did. (Or was it the other way around?) I’m beginning to recognize patterns more regularly from these exercises. Thanks, Susan.
They call that intuation! Some players have great chess intuations such as Carlsen. You can improve on that with experience, but players like Carlsen are born with unbelievable intuations that cannot be taught.
1.Rxg5+ Rg6 2.Rxg6+ Kxg6 3.Rg1+ Kh5 4.Qxf7+ Kh4 5.Nf5+ Kh3 6.Qh5++
I thought Rxg5 almost right away, since hxg5 allows Qh8+ with mate.