White to move. How should white proceed?
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White to move. How should white proceed?
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1. Rd8 Qxd8
2. Qxf6, and 3. Qg7#
rd7
1. Rd7! (deflection)
1…. g5
(1…. Qxd7 2. Qxf6 and Black cannot prevent mate)
2. Bxg5 Qa5
(2…. Bxg5?? 3. Qxf7+ with a quick mate)
and now…
(3. Bxf6?! is inaccurate. White does get tremendous advantage and should win but there is a better move)
3. g4!! (denying the f5 square from the queen) and White has a tremendous attack.
Rd7!
Any Queen move removes the defender of the B@f6, after which there’s no defense against mate at g7.
Bringing the knight to e5 looks pretty good to me.
1. Ne5 Rb8 (Be5?? 2.Qf7 Kh8 3.Qh7#)
2. Rb8 Ne2
I haven’t looked at all the alternatives for black on move 2, but I don’t see how black can hold against the mate that starts with Qxf6 without luring the white rook off the 1st rank. Continuing:
3. Re2
White can play Kf1 or Kh1 and win since black will lose a piece once the queens come off: [3.Kf1 Nf4 4.Rd8 Rd8 5.Bf4+-]. Continuing:
3. …..Qb8
4. g3
Taking care of the back rank. Continuing:
4. …..Qb1
5. Kg2 Be5
6. Qe5 Qb7
7. f3 f5
8. Qd4 with more than enough to win.
1. Rd7! should win.
If black tries g5 or e5, white can calmly take the pawn with Nxg5 or Nxe5, and black’s problems are still the same.
1 Rd7
Simply Ne5.
1.Rd7!Be7 2.Rxd8 Raxd8 3.Qe5 Bf8 4.Bxf8 Rxf8 5.Nxd4 Rdf7 In this endgame position White will be able to over work both rooks. Black will have a hard time trying to stop promotions on both flanks.
1. Ng5 (a) Bxg5
2. Qxf7+ Kh8
3. Qxh7#
1. … (b) Re7
2. Qxf6 any
3. Qg7#
1. … (c) Kh8
2. Nxf7+ and takes the black queen next move
1. … (d) Rf8
2. Bxf8 Qxf8
3. Qxf6 and Rxf7 next move
Mark
1. …
Rd8
1.Rd7 +-
1.Ne5 Nd5 (taking the knight loses to Qxf7+ and Black has to stop 2. Rd7 Qb6 (taking the rook leads to Qxf6 and the mate Qg7 is unstoppable)
2.cxd5 exd5
3.Rd7 Qb6
4.Rxd5 Rac8 and White has greater strength and can win
1-Rd7 — queen makes any move 2-Qxf6 and finally Qb7#
Looks like 1.Rd7 will either win the black Q or mate at g7.
I think some elaboration is necessary.
1Rd7 e5
1…. Qxd7 Qxf6 wins.
2 Rxe5 (better than 2Nxe5 g5)
2…. Rxe5
2… Bxe5 3Qxf7#
2… g5 3Rxg5+ Bxg5 4Qxf7#
3Rxd8+ Rxd8
3… Bxd8 4Qxe5 with mate at g7 or f8
4 Qxf6 with mate to follow
probably tougher for white is
1Rd7 g5
2Nxg5 e5
3Rxd8 Not 3Rxe5 Rxe5 4Rxd8 Rxd8 white is better but can not play 5Qxf6 on account of 5… Re1#
3… Bxg5
3… exf4 4 R(1)xe8#
4Qxg5 R either x d8
5Qxf6 and wins
Historical note:
this tournament was confronting strong Argentinian chess players such as Jacobo Bolbochan, Grau, Palau, Piazzini and Pleci.
Argentina was a strong chess nation, even before the tragic 8th Olympiad at Buenos Aires in 1939 who saw many top-class chess players wanting to stay in Argentina when the war broke out.
Amongst them, Eliskases, Najdorf, Czerniak…
In this tournament, Hounie Fleurquin didn’t score well but found here a simple and neat brilliancy on the board that I didn’t found at home.
(Hope that blurb interested you…)
1. Rd7 and now next move depends on, what black does: it´s either 2. RxQ or 2. Qxf6, which is even more devastating, because of 3. Qg7#
greets, jan
1.Rd7. If 1…Qxd7, 2.Qxf6 wins.
Should be Rd7.
1. Rd7 Qxd7
2. Qxf6
then black cannot prevent white moving to g7, white wins
Wow, I missed Rd7. Much more elegant than my plan of Ne5.
1.Rd7 is more forcing than 1.Ne5 (which I am convinced also wins).
1. Rd7 Be7
The black queen cannot move to save herself due to white’s threat of Qxf6 and Qg7# (as the anonymous commenter at 6:09 points out). Black might try attacking white’s queen with g5, but this will fail: [1. …g5 2.Bg5! Qa5 (or 2. …Bg5 3.Qf7 Kh8 4.Qh7#; or 2. …Qd7 3.Bf6! Re8 4.Qg4 Kf8 5.Qg7 Ke8 6.Qg8#) 3.g4! Be7 4.Be7+-]. Continuing:
2. Rd8 winning the queen for a rook, and maintaining a powerful attack.
What’s the matter with
Rd7? If the Q takes the rook
then Qxf6 followed by mate
1.Rd7 Qxd7 2.Qxf6 1-0
Yeah, Rd7.