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      Home  >  Chess Improvement • Chess Puzzles  >  Quickie sharp tactic

      Quickie sharp tactic

      Chess tactic, Puzzle Solving

      White to move. How should white proceed?

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      18 Comments

      1. Bhavik Chheda Reply
        July 31, 2013 at 5:49 am

        1. Qxf6 Kxf6
        2. Rxe6 Qxe6
        3. Rxe6 Kxe6
        4. Bf5+

      2. Lorfa Reply
        July 31, 2013 at 5:52 am

        Wow! Look at that!!

        Qxf6+ Kxf6 Rxe6+ Qxe6 Rxe6+ Kxe6 Bf5+

        ..and white emerges a bishop ahead, and is also soon to pick up a pawn.

        Maybe black should go for:

        Qxf6+ Kxf6 Rxe6+ Kf7 Rxc6 Rxc6

        White is still a bishop up but black is left with a rook to defend and has two more pawns than white.

      3. satya Reply
        July 31, 2013 at 6:07 am

        After all exchanges, the Bishop pins the rook

        1. Qxf6+ Kxf6
        2. Rxe6+ Qxe6
        3. Rxe6+ Kxe6
        4. Bf5+ and pockets the Black Rook
        1-0

      4. Anant Reply
        July 31, 2013 at 7:03 am

        It seems to me that Qxe6 can start an avalanche of exchanges and then Bf5+ traps the black rook and so white ends up with an extra bishop in the exchange? Furthermore, white pawns form a fortress and white can keep capturing black pawns? This is what I can see…

      5. Andreas Otterstein Reply
        July 31, 2013 at 7:28 am

        1.Qxf6+! Kxf6 2.Rxe6+ Qxe6 3.Rxe6+ Kxe6 4.Bf5+ and wins the Rook

      6. LionsOfSavuti Reply
        July 31, 2013 at 7:42 am

        Qxf6?

      7. Anonymous Reply
        July 31, 2013 at 9:25 am

        Q x r check, k x q, r x b check, q x r, r x q check, k x r, b f5 check

      8. Oleg Mezjuev Reply
        July 31, 2013 at 10:14 am

        1. Qxf6+ Kxf6 2. Rxe6+ Qxe6 3. Rxe6+ Kxe6 4. Bf5+ 1-0

      9. kibitzer Reply
        July 31, 2013 at 10:50 am

        1. Qxf6! Kxf6
        2. Rxe6+ Qxe6
        3. Rxe6+ Kxe6
        4. Bf5+ and white wins a piece.

      10. Ben Reply
        July 31, 2013 at 3:41 pm

        1. Qxf6+ Kxf6
        2. Rxe6+

        If black king moves out of check, white takes queen and comes out a bishop ahead.

        Otherwise,
        2. …Qxe6
        3. Rxe6+

        If black king moves out of check, white is a bishop ahead.

        Otherwise,
        3. …Kxe6
        4. Bf5+

        And white comes out a bishop ahead.

        Did I miss anything?

      11. Anand Gautam Reply
        July 31, 2013 at 4:14 pm

        I guess Bg6+ wins an exchange at least. Don’t have lot of time to analyze though.

      12. Anonymous Reply
        July 31, 2013 at 4:19 pm

        QxR+ KxQ
        RxB+ QxR
        RxQ+ KxR
        Bf5+ wins the c8 rook

      13. Vishnu Vardhan Reddy. G Reply
        July 31, 2013 at 4:29 pm

        Since it is called as a quickie tactic there must be some decisive blow needed…
        1.Qxf6+ KxR (What else) 2.RxB+ QxR
        3.RxR+ KxR 4.Bf5+ K any 5.BxR …I think this wins for white.

      14. Vishnu Vardhan Reddy. G Reply
        July 31, 2013 at 4:32 pm

        Since it is called as a quickie tactic there must be some decisive blow needed…
        1.Qxf6+ KxQ (There was a spelling mistake, KXR)(What else) 2.RxB+ QxR
        3.RxR+ KxR 4.Bf5+ K any 5.BxR …I think this wins for white.

      15. Lucymarie Reply
        July 31, 2013 at 6:46 pm

        1. Qxf6+ Kxf6 2. Rxe6+ Qxe6 3. Rxe6+ Kxe6 4. Bf5+

      16. Lucymarie Reply
        July 31, 2013 at 6:48 pm

        1. Qxf6+ Kxf6 2. Rxe6+ Qxe6 3. Rxe6+ Kxe6 4. Bf5+

      17. Anonymous Reply
        July 31, 2013 at 7:21 pm

        1.Qxf6+ Kxf6
        2.Rxe6+ Qxe6
        3.Rxe6+ Kxe6
        4.Bf5

      18. pht Reply
        August 1, 2013 at 11:18 am

        I think Lorfa has a good point here.
        1. Qxf6+ Kxf6
        2. Rxe6+ Kf7!
        3. Rxc6 Rxc6
        Black has 2 pawns for the bishop and can still fight for a draw, whereas the “main line” looses directly.

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