White to move. How should White proceed?
4K2k/pp5p/5q1P/1P6/1QP2p2/1P1P1p2/5Pb1/8 w – – 0 1
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White to move. How should White proceed?
4K2k/pp5p/5q1P/1P6/1QP2p2/1P1P1p2/5Pb1/8 w – – 0 1
1. Qf8+ Qxf8 2. Kxf8 and white wins easily by pushing his kingside pawns.
i can’t help the feeling, but doesn’t the queenside majority four against two pawns convert even if the black bishop is running around to stop it? That is after
1. Qf8+ Qxf8
2. Kxf8
Maybe it’s just wishful thinking, but how is black actually going to stop them?
greets, jan
1.Qf8+ Qxf8 2.Kxf8 #Black resigned because white had a lot of pawn on the way change to Queen and black had a bishop in white line and king black can’t out from Kh8 .. – KNOCKOUT2010
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What happens for just Qf8 followed by just pushing the d pawn?
Trade queens, then advance the pawns.
I’d try 1. Qf8+ forcing the exchange of queens, push the d-pawn to force the bishop to be sacrificed for it, then capture some pawns, etc.
Probably Qf8 check, trading the queen off I guess.
Rationale behind that move is the king is stuck on h8 and white could continue with his pawn pushing (d4 c5 b4) plan.
Hello
I think that white wins.
1. Qf8+ , Qxf8+
2. Kxf8 wins
Pawn d with support of the king decides
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1. Qf8+ Qxf8
2. Kxf8 Bh3
3. Ke7, and the black king is imprisoned, while white’s d-pawn will cost black its bishop, then white queens its c-pawn.
I would immediately want to look at the idea of exchanging the queens and pushing the d-pawn. The king side pawns of white are on black squares and immune to attack from the bishop, and he will have to maneuver to stop the d-pawn. Let’s see if this get us anywhere:
1. Qf8 Qf8
2. Kf8
And, now, what should black do? He can play a6/5, b6, Bf1, or Bh3 (Bh1 is simply silly). Coming to h3 and guarding d7 is not going to work:
2. …..Bh3
3. d4 Bf5 (what else?)
4. d5 Bc2 (a6/5 won’t matter)
5. d6 Bf5 (otherwise mate comes)
6. Ke7 Kg8 (only hope)
7. d7 Bd7
8. Kd7 Kf7
9. c5 and we need go no further- white will queen several moves before black can queen his h-pawn. The only other hope black might have is to create a passed queen side pawn:
2. …..a6
3. ba6 ba6
4. d5 b5 (necessary for pass pwn)
5. d6 Bd3
6. d7 Bc2
7. d8(Q) and mate can’t be stopped.
All in all, this wins for white in every conceivable line.
1. Qf8+ QxQ+
2. KxQ Bf1
3. d4 and Black can’t stop the pawn without losing the bishop
Mark
White should lock the Black King
in the corner by trading Queens
on f8 and then advance the d pawn
to threaten promotion with support
from the White King. The black Bishop
will have to be sacrificed for the
d Pawn when white’s queenside pawns
should win.
1.Qf8+ Qxf8
2.Kxf8 Bh3
3.d4 B(anywhere along c8-h3 diagonal)
4.d5 B(same as above)
5.d6 Bg4
6.Ke7 Kg8
7.d7 Bxd7
8.Kxd7 Kf7
9.c5 Kg6
10.c6 bxc6
11.bxc6 etc.
and black doesn’t have enough time to
take white’s h-pawn, move out of the
way and advance the h-pawn to promotion,
as white will promote first and win easily.
Black could try
8….b6 but white simply plays
9.b5 to support the advance of the c-pawn.
1. Qf8 Qf8
2. Kf8
Is it possible for the black to exchange the a,b pawns and sacrify the Byshop to have a pat ?