White to move. How should White proceed?
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White to move. How should White proceed?
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Rxd7+ should win a piece!
1. Na8+!
Looks interesting
1.Na8+ Kc8 (1…Rxa8 2.Rxb7+ Kc8 3.Rbxd7 etc.)
2.Bxb7+ Kb8 3.Bc6+ Kc8 4.Bxd7+ Rxd7 5.Nb6+ etc.
Nd5+
Kn D5 will fork Black’s black bishop, winning the piece and setting up end game with like bishops.
1. Nd5+ followed by 2. Nxe7 looked good initially, but Black can hold on without losing material.
Fortunately, there’s a much simpler solution –
1. Rxd7+ Rxd7
2. Nxd7 Kxd7
3. Rxb7+ – forks the king and knight.
N a8+
na8+ wins – either a mate or a piece
1. Nxd7 Rxd7
2. Rxb7
1. Na8+
From sPAIN…
1)Na8+,Ra8
2)Rb7+,Kc8
3)Rdd7 and white win
1)Na8+,Kc8
2)Bb7+,Kb8
3)Bc6+,Kc8
4)Bd7+,Rd7
5)Nb6+,Kc7 […,Kb8 6)Rd7… 7)Rb7++]
6)Rd7+,Kb8
7)Rb7++
Greetings from Spain
My first thought is to clear the line to b7, so a knight move seems to be called for. The most obvious selection, thus, is Nd7 and not Nd5 which just trades blocking the rook’s attack on b7 with blocking the bishop’s attack on the pawn. Also, take note- black is up a piece for a pawn in this starting position.
1. Nd7 Rd7??
2. Rb7 Kc8
3. Rdd7 and white wins, at least a full rook, and I can even see a potential mating line here, but am too lazy to see if it is forced. However, black need not take at his first move:
1. Nd7 b5!(cutting the line to b7)
2. Bf5
This is the best I find for white. See moves like a4 and c4 below. Cont.:
2. …..g6
3. Be6 Rhe8
4. c4 b4
And, I would rather play white here- he is up a pawn now, but it will be a slog. I would guess there is something more forcing here, or it would not be a practical chess tactic posted here, so time to look at other moves. I will start with the knight move I dismissed first:
1. Nd5 Kb8 (what else?)
2. Ne7 Bb5 (best, IMO)
And, I am not really sure what the best line here is for white. Moves like c4, Rd8, Rd5, all suggest themselves, and I think white does have the edge in all of them just looking 2 to 3 moves past each, but I again find nothing really decisive here.
The other choice one of the commenters suggested is worse than these alternatives I outlined above for white:
1. Rd7 Rd7
2. Nd7 b5! and now the white knight must be protected since he has no escape. Cont.:
3. Bf5 Rd8 and black will win two piece for a rook and pawn since
4. Rd1 Nc6 (threat is Nb8)
5. Rd3 e4
6. Re3 g6
7. Bg6 Rd7
8. Re4 Rd2 and black clearly is better, though it won’t be an easy position to turn into a win.
However, I now realize what the right move is, and why. I had the right idea about clearing the way for Rb7, but it really is an out of the box move. Continued in my next comment.
In playing through of the subvariations in my previous comment, I realized that getting the rooks doubled on the 7th rank was more important than taking with the knight at d7. This lead to imagine what happens when white plays
1. Na8!! Ra8
2. Rb7 Kc8 (Kd8 3.Rdd7+-)
3. Rdd7 Nb5 (nothing better, IMO)
4. Re7 Nd6
5. Rec7 Kd8
6. Rd7 Kc8 (Ke8 7.Rd6+-)
7. Rbc7 Kb8
8. Ba8 Nb5
9. Rb7 and white wins easily.
So, can black do better than taking at a8 with his first move? Maybe marginally, but white still gets a decisive edge in the other two lines -Kc8 and Kb8:
1. Na8 Kc8
2. Bb7
Here, 2. Rb7, and I couldn’t find anything for white after 2. …Bc6 after 10 minutes of looking. Cont.:
2. …..Kb8
3. Bc6 Kc8 (Nb5 4.Rb5 Kc8 5.Bd7+-)
4. Bd7 Rd7
5. Nb6 Kb7 (or anywhere else)
6. Rd7 Kc6
7. Re7 Nb5 (what else?)
8. Na4 and black is down a rook and a pawn. Or
1. …..Kb8
2. Rb7 Ka8 (Kc8 3.Nb6 is mate)
3. Rbd7 Kb8
4. Rdb1 Kc8
5. Ra7 Bc5 (what else?)
6. Bf5 and black will be lucky to lose only a rook.
Let´s play
1. Na8+ Rxa8
2. Rxb7+ Kc8
3. Rxd7 winning either the bishop or the knight with two extra pawns and a crushing position. If 1. … Kb/c8, rooks enter the 7th rank winning material anyway. greets, jan
Na7
Na8
Na8+ clears the line to b7
1) Na8+!!!!
1)…. Ra8
2) Rb7+ Kc8
3) R1d7!!
1)… Kb8
2) Rb7+ Kc8
3) Nb6
1) … Kc8
2) Bb7+
people don’t realize that white is already down a piece, so the move that you gotta find is probably not just “winning a piece”.
a hint, you need to move your knight to unleash the power of the light bishop, and you need to do it with a check.
The answer is Na8+
Na8+ leads to mate or loss of Black d7 Bishop, followed by Rook at a8 if the Rook takes.
1 Na8+ Rxa8
2 Rb7* Kc8
3 Rxd7 …
4… …
5… …
Give up
Na8+ should win