White to move. How should white proceed?
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White to move. How should white proceed?
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looks like the very famous Qxc6+ bxc6 Ba6# set up.
1Qxc6+ bxc6
2Ba6#
1.Qxc6+ bxc6 2. Ba6 mate!
Kamalakanta
White lady swallows a little black piece.
Black rolls overs and resigns
Nice!
“Mother’s Day Chess Tactic”
Is a symbolic position psychoanalytic? 🙂
The Queen (or mothers in psychoanalytic terms) must always be sacrificed.
🙂
1. Qxc6+ bxc6 2. Ba6#
Stef
1. Qxc6+, bxc6
2. Ba6+, and white mates
Erik Fokke
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Isn’t this a mate in 2? If not, what am I missing in the following line?
1.Qxc6+ bxc6 (only move)
2.Ba6#
Ah yes, the old c6 queen sac. Diemer seems to have based a whole line around that one.
Qxc6+ & black has no answer it seems.
After bxc6, white has Ba6 mate.
Qxc6 followed by Ba6 mate.
1. Qxc6+, bxc6
2. Ba6+ Mate
X-ray attack, with an excellent queen sacrifice. 1.Qxc6+ (see how trapped is the poor king next to his rook and the excellent job of the white dark square bishop. Active piece.) 1…bxQc3 2.Ba6# I love you mum.
X-ray attack, with an excellent queen sacrifice. 1.Qxc6+ (see how trapped is the poor king next to his rook and the excellent job of the white dark square bishop. Active piece.) 1…bxQc3 2.Ba6# I love you mum.
1. Qxc6+ bxc6
2. Ba6#
Classic! 1. Qxc6+ followed by 2. Ba6#
Qxc6+ bxc6
Ba6#
1. Qxc6+ bxc6 (forced)
2. Ba6#
1. Qxc6 bxc6 2. Ba6#. His mom would be proud.
Qxc6+ & mate next move…
1. Qxc6+
2. Ba6#
a famous Queen sac
1 Qxc6+ bxc6
2 Ba6 mate
1. Qc6:+ and mate next move.
Qxc6+ followed by ba6++
Qxc6+
If b7xc6, then Ba6 looks like mate to me!
QxP+
QxP+
too easy for anyone who has seen this theme before
I first saw this postion about a thousand years ago when I purchased my first chess book in Buffums department store in Long Beach, California (around 1955 actually): Edward Lasker’s “Chess Secrets I Learned From The Masters”. I still have my blue hardbound copy of that book. A lot of things change in life, but chess is always here.
1. Qxc6+ bxc6
2. Ba6#
1. Qxc6+ bxc6
2. Ba6++
Isn’t that obvious Susan
Exchanges favor the side with the extra material, so best is 1.Bc4!!
1. Qxc6+ mates in two.
1. … bxc6
2. Ba6#
1.Qxc6+ bxc6
2.Ba6 #
Q*c6+, b*c6,Ba6+ mate…
Suasan,
Are you impatient? You could have waited till 06.08.2013 to set the problem entitled “Century Old Tactics”.
Sorry for typographical error “Suasan” in lieu of “Susan”.