White to move. How should White proceed?
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White to move. How should White proceed?
Source: ChessToday.net
1.Rxd6 cxd6
2.Bb5 Qxb5
3.Nxd6+ and takes the queen.
White sacrifice a rook and a bishop in exchange for a pawn, a knight and a queen, plus a better position of the pieces.
1.Rxd6 cxd6, 2.Bb5 pinning the black queen at d7, if queen takes bishop at b5, then white knight forks king and queen at d6! 2…Qxb5, 3.Nd6+!!
1)Rxd6! cxd6 (forced)
2)Bb5!!
if
2…Qxb5
3.Nxd6+ wins the queen
2…Rc8
3.Qxc8+
black queeen is pinned
1.Rxd6 cxd6 2.Bb5!
the winning combination should be
1. Rxd6 cxd6
2. Bb5 Qxb5
3. Nxd6+ K any
4. Nxb5
this wins the queen and two pawns for a rook and a bishop. greets, jan
Txd6 cxd6, Bb5!
1. Rxd6! cxd6
2. Bb5! Qxb5
3. Nxd6+ Kd7
4. Nxb5 Rc8
5. Nc3 with a decisive material advantage for White.
Best wishes
1. Rxd6 and black can not retake with the pawn because of Bb5!
1.Rxd6 cxd6
2.Bb5 Qxb5
3.Nxd6+
and capturing the queen on the next move.
1. Rxd6 wins a knight or a queen for a rook.
white will win after:
1.Rxd6 1.c7xd6
2.B b5 2.Qxb5
3.Nxd6+ and the queen is lost
1.Rxd6, and then if cxd6, 2.Bb5 1-0
Rxd6 followed by Bb5 and if queen takes then the white knight will fork black’s king and queen. Pretty!
Beelze
1. R:d6, for if …c:d, 2. Bb5 wins the Q because of 3. N:d6+
That’s fun.
1. Rxd6! cxd6
2. Bb5 Qxd5
3. Nxd6+ Kd7
4. Nxb5 Rc8
5. Nc3 +-
Pretty. Rxd6 cxd6
Bb5 Qxb5
Nxd6+ forking K and Q
Rxd6 looks pretty terminal.
1. Rxd6 cxd6
2. Bb5 Qxb5 (I don’t see anything much better)
3. Nxd6+ Kd7/d8
4. Nxb5
White has Nc3 blocking the c-file to save his queen as well as Rd1/Bg5 to do the same depending where the black king goes.
I took a while looking at the wrong knight fork, trying to figure out how to deflect the g7 bishop for Nf6+.
Then I spent some time trying to figure out the pin with Bb5.
Then finally:
1. Rxd6 cxd6
2. Bb5 and if Qxb5 then the knight fork on d6 works.
rxd6, cd, Bb5 !
adding to my previous comment, that i somehow didn’t count the knight that black loses on move 1. jan
1. Rxd6 cxd6
2. Bb5 looks good.
Lucy