White to move. How should white proceed?
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White to move. How should white proceed?
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Nxd6
If QxQ, NxN#!
A very pretty pin on the black queen allows white to play Nd6 with the multiple threats:
1. Nd6 h6
On Bg4 blocking up the g-file, white just forks the queen and king with Nxf7. If black takes at c3, white mates with Nxf7, and the capture at d6 allows Qxe5#. Finally, black can protect f7 with the rook, but then white plays Nxf7+ followed by Qxe5 to mate on the next move. Continuing:
2. Nf7 Kh7
3. Qe5 and mate will follow soon.
1. Nd6 Rf8 (Nd6 2. Qe5#)
2. Nf7+ Rf7
3. Qe5+ Rf6 (or Rg7)
4. Qf6# (or Qg7#)
Nxd6
nxb
1.Nxd6 ! wins. Black loses his Q or is checkmated (2.Nd6xN )
(Mathur)
That should be “Sachdev” – not “Tania” …
PS: Nxd6 looks pretty devastating
Nh6 wins.
Nxd6
Nh6 gets taken, but Nxd6 wins on the spot with two different mating threats.
Nxd6 wins!
Nxd6 looks like a killer, threatening mate (Nxf7#), while removing one of the black queen’s key defenders.
I don’t have time to explore this any further, but I don’t think much more analysis is required here.
Re: Kerry Liles, obsessive much?
Re: Snow Drops. What is a Snow Drop? Snow Flakes I have heard of.
Re: Tania, she cool, she sweet, she really fine to meat.
NXP
Nxd6 (Qxc3 Nxf7++) (Rf8 Nxf7+ Rxf7 Qxe5 Rg7 Qxg7++)
Nh6 doesn’t quite work. Black can protect it’s knight by Rf8 I think. Nxd6 seems to be the answer. The Queen cannot take the knight because it’s pinned to the king by white’s queen. If … Nxd6 then Qxe5 mate. Really with any defensive move by black they lose their queen at minimum and likely it’s mate in short order in any case.
Hey Kerry Liles, instead of nitpicking, why don’t you solve the darn puzzle? Nxd6, duh.
Nxd6 (Qxc3 Nxf7++) (Rf8 Nxf7+ Rxf7 Qxe5 Rg7 Qxg7++)
N:d6 wins.
N:d6 wins.
Nxd6 (Qxc3 Nxf7++) (Rf8 Nxf7+ Rxf7 Qxe5 Rg7 Qxg7++)
1. Nxd6
I would prefer Nxd6 rather than Nh6? Seems more debilitating.
1. Nd6: wins at once.
I wonder what process could have guided the Anon who suggested 1. Nh6. How would could one look at Nh6 without seeing that 1. Nd6 was better?