Poliak – Levin (Kiev, 1949)
Black to move. How should Black proceed?
6k1/p4ppp/Qp2n3/2r5/3q4/P1N5/1P3PPP/3R2K1 b – – 0 1
Tactic, tactic, tactic
Poliak – Levin (Kiev, 1949)
Black to move. How should Black proceed?
6k1/p4ppp/Qp2n3/2r5/3q4/P1N5/1P3PPP/3R2K1 b – – 0 1
Rc3
1.RxN!!
If the White Rook takes the Queen, Black checks on the back row and ends up with a winning endgame. If White recaptures, Black takes White’s Rook and ends up with a winning endgame.
R takes c3. if white rook takes queen, than black rook will checkmate on c1.
No check mat on c1 Jessica lol
After 1. .. Rxc6! (which is correct), will any of you be sure how to continue after 2. Qf1!
After
1. … Rxc3
2. Qf1 Rc2!
3. RxQ NxR
White has no good answer to threats of
4. … Rc1
and
4. … Ne2
– Lambent
Add to my previous comment:
1. … Rxc3
2. Qe2 Rc8!
3. RxQ NxR
and Black wins by similar tactics.
– Lambent
2. -, Rc2! is a brilliant move after the clever defense Qf1!
Having found Rxc3 at once I was looking for defenses and found Qf1. It is very import to search for your opponent’s possibilities and I am sure that those who wrote the first three comments didn’t do that (and there game would probably end with Rxc3 Qf1 in a losing endgame for black!). Notice that in a real game a counter to a counter move can’t be found very often.
Here, as I knew Rxc3 had to be correct, I had to take some time but finding the idea with the knight fork it was only to find the correct way to achieve it and finally I found Rc2 (but not any other rook move along the c file) with the idea of Rxd4, Nxd4 and no defense against Rc1 or Ne2(+) at the ame time.
4. Kh1, Ne2! (no way to escape for the queen) or
4. g3/h3, Rc1!
Here still some details have to be regarded and it seems really luck fo black that there is no way to escape as white still has several ways to choose.
Good one to learn calculating everything out when sacrifzing material… chess is often not as easy as it seems. 🙂
Best wishes
Jochen
“Mister Jochen” who knows everything.
You are not master in chess, so be modest.
2. -, Rc2! is a brilliant move after the clever defense Qf1!
Okay, I’ll bite. Why is it better than 2…Rc8, 2…Rc7, or 2…Rc6? (On general principles I’d avoid 2…Rc5 because of 3.b4, although I don’t think it makes any difference.)
I value Jochen’s contributions.
This position apparently arose over the board, but the variations appear almost composed.
– Lambent
Oooohhh my God!! This position is eerily similar to one I played against a handheld device. I was black and …Rxc3 was the winning line.
Chess is such an amazing game!!
“Why is it better than 2…Rc8, 2…Rc7, or 2…Rc6?”
Ah, you may be right, I thought that in the beginning, too, but than “found” that black needs both threats Ne2 and Rc1 while e.g. Rc8 just leaves the threat of Rc1 so I predicted white can defend with Kh1! and Rc1 and Ne2 (!) aren’t possible. Those where my thoughts…
But now looking again and taking a closer look I see that even without the R defending c2 Ne2 is possible after Kh1 as white’s back rank is still weak.
Wow, this knight move even looks more spectacular than and the position with Kh1 Ph2g2f2 Ne2 Rc8 is beautiful.
Thanks fo correcting, forget my hint about c2 being the only square for the rook, it’s just the ‘simplest’ one.
Or do I still oversee anything more?
Best wishes
Jochen
And how about Qe1
rxc3 – qf1 rc2 – rxq kxr – Qe1
greetings
cfjhx
continue from previous comment:
or Qd1 (which I actually meant)
cfjhx –
If you mean:
1…Rxc3
2.Qf1 Rc2
3.Rxd4 Nxd4
4.Qd1
…, Black just continues:
4…Rc1
5.Qxc1 Ne2+
… and comes out a piece ahead.
Or did you mean something else?
Ah, nice, yes, that i have meant!
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