White to move. How should White proceed?
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White to move. How should White proceed?
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Bd5. I don’t think this is super hard to find, Pogonina should have taken the knight when she first had the chance.
the correct way to proceed would be probably
1. Bd5 Qxd5
2. Nxf7+ Nxf7
3. Qxd5 Bxd5
4, fxe7 and the pawn will convert.
greets, jan
1. Bd5
(a) … Qd5
2. Nf7+ Nf7
3. Qd5 ed5
4. fe7 (promoting on either e8 or f8)
(b) … ed5
2. Qh6 Bf6
3. Qf6+ Kg8
4. Qf7+ Kh8
5. Qf8++
1. Bd5, Qxd5
2. Nxf7+, Kg8
3. Qxd5, Bxd5
4. fxe7 and white wins, because black cannot prevent white from queening.
Erik Fokke
Amsterdam, Netherlands
very nice!
1.Bd5! Qxd5
2.Nxf7+ Nxf7
3.Qxd5 xd5
4.fxe7 +-
1. Bd5 …
If 1. … Qxd5 then 2. Nxf7 + Nxf7 3. Qxc6 Bxc6 4. Pxe7 and black can’t stop the pawn promotion. There are slight variations with the same theme.
If 1. …. Pxd5 then pxe7 leading to a win.
Bob Savage
Bd5 looks good.
1. … Qxd5
2. Nxf7+ Nxf7 (else if Kg8 Nh6+
followed by QxQ & f6xe7)
3. QxQ BxQ
4. f6xe7 & it looks like the pawn
queens
F6 X e7(bishop)
This opens up opetions for white to finish off.
Can’t find a winning move. As black threatens mate in one, if white attacks, it has to be a check, and neither Nxf7+ nor Qxh7+ have anything to follow them. Throwing the bishop in the path of white’s queen looks possible with Bd5, but after Qxd5, while Nxf7+ is a discovered attack on the queen, it’s well defended.
So in a speed game, I’d naturally just retreat my queen with Qh3, protecting against the g2 mate, while staying on the h-file, and preparing to play Bc2 to gang up on the h7 square (e.g., …Bxf6; Nxh7, Nxh7; Bc2). That’s the best I can find so far.
1 f3 might even be better than the Qh3 I suggested. With the mate threat gone, white has multiple threats, such as Q-h6-g7, or Nxh7 followed by Bc2, or Nxf7.
Bd5 Qxd5
Nxf7+ Nxf7
QxQ exQ
fxe7
that was interesting.. another bishop kind of problem…
Very nice.
Bd5 Qxd5
Nf7+ Nxf7
Qxd5 Bxd5
fxe7 and promote next move.
Good puzzle, because it has you looking for the mating tactic that isn’t there!
1.Bd5!!
I)1…Qc7/d7 2.fxe7 Qxe7 3.Bxb7 Qxb7 4.Be5+ and White is strongly pulling
II) All the other queen retreats are worse because of 2.fxe7 !
III)1….exd5 2.fxe7 Nde6 3.Qxf7! +-
IV) 1…Qxd5 2.Nxf7+ Nxf7 3.Qxd5 B or exd5 4.fxe7 +-
or 2….Kg8 3.Qxd5 B or exd5 4.fxe7 all the same +-
Well, if this were a blitz game I was playing today, I would play 1.fe7 in order to win the game with my clever play with my 7th rank pawn only to watch in astonished disbelief that I missed black’s mate with Qg2. Been that kind of day.
However, without the pressure of a clock, the question can be asked- how does one buy enough time to prevent both Qg2 and Bf6. The one move that offers this possibility is Bd5:
1. Bd5 Qd5 (ed5 is below)
2. Nf7 Nf7 (Kg8 is below)
3. Qd5
A new white queen is coming, or mate:
3. …..Bd5 (ed5 4.fe7 wins too)
4. fe7 and no matter what black does, white either gets a new queen at f8 or e8.
At move 2 above, black will still lose with
2. …..Kg8
3. Qd5 Bf6 (Bd5 or ed5 4.Nh6 +-)
4. Nh6 Kg7 (Kh8 5.Qg5! Bg5? 6.Be5)
5. Qd6 and white will retain the knight and have a queen for two pieces and a pawn.
Or, at move 1 above:
1. …..ed5
And, now Qg2 is no threat, so white can play
2. fe7 Nde6 (Nfe6 is mate in 1)
3. Be5 and mate in two is unstoppable.
1.f3 Bxf6 2.Nf7+ Ndxf7 3.Qxf7 Qc8 4.Qxf6+ Kg8 5.Be5 Qd7 6.Qh8+ Kf7 7.Qg7+ Ke8 8.Qxd7+ Nxd7 #Game draw as sufficient ***BUT… White WON If… 1.f3 Bxf6 2.Nf7+ Nxf7 3.Qxf7 Bg7 4.Be5 Bxe5 5.Qxf8#
Bd5 is correct but I think if white just plays Qh3 followed by Bc2 and sac the bishop with h7 it is a forced win also