White to move. What is the best continuation for White?
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Rxe8 followed by f6 for white looks strong
1. f6 is tempting but I think the brutish Rxe8+ wins more convincingly
1. Rxe8+ Bxe8 (forced)
2. f6 (threat 3. Qg5+ and 4. Qg7#) Bxf6
3. Bxf6 Bb5 (say) (3. … Kf8 4. Qh6+ Kg8 5. Qg7#)
4. Qh6! (Qg5+? and the King has room to run) and Qg7# follows
1. Rxe8+ Bxe8 2. f6! and black must resign.
1.Rxe8! Bxe8 2.f6, intending 3.Qh6 or 3.Qg5+, looks murderous.
1. Rxe8 Bxe8 2. f6! and black can resign.
rxn+
han
R#e8 and all roads lead to Rome…that one was pretty easy..
Rxe8!
That knight defends to many good squares. Rxe8+ Bxe8 f6! now black’s defenders are off sides. While black can delay a few moves Qh6 or Qg5 is inevitable with mate on g7 or h7
R-E8xKn, B-E8xR,
F5,BxF5,
BxF5,??
Q5!, K-F8/H8
Q-G7 Checkmate
1.Rxe8 Bxe8 2.f6+-
Hi Susan Polgar,
Ref :”Tuesday chess tactic” [ White has to move]
Sub : White wins the game.
1.R*Ne8+ B*Re8
2.f6 d5
3.Qh6 B*f6
4.B*Bf6 Rd8
5.Qh7+ Kf8
6.Qh8+ Mate
White wins the game : 1 – 0
By
Venky[Chennai – India]
Qh6 from ZZ0
I once read something by Koblentz saying “the aim of the sacrifice is to increase the power of the remaining pieces”. Here I would play 1.Rxe8+ elimination Bxe8 2.f6! and there’s just no way Black can avoid checkamte. You see that the f6 pawn protected by the a1 bishop creates deadly threats while the queen and the other bishop are ready to act. Note that the same bishop was just activated by f6. While no black piece has the least activity, wonderful !
Rxe8, Bxe8
f6, Bxf6
Bxf6, h6
Qxh6, Knd7
Qg7 mate
Well, no time to waste and I don’t like all that
Black firepower on f6 and the Black bishop gunning
for g5, which is where I would like to put my queen.
The Black knight, in addition to eyeing f6 is also
protecting g7. So 1. Re8+ does something about all
of this! No more knight looking at f6 and g7. How
would I follow up after 1…. Bxe8? Then the Black
queen will be able to protect the 7th rank if she can
move her f-pawn to f6. I can put a stop to that by
playing 2. f6, threatening 3. Qg5+. That also keeps the
Black bishop out of g5. Then do I have a mate? It looks
like Black will have time to move her white-sqared bishop
off of e8 to give her king space to escape, but yes, my
white-sqared bishop can take care of that!
1. Re8+ Bxe8
2. f6 Bxf6 (forced)
3. Bxf6 Bc6 (try to give the king an escape)
4. Qg5+ Kf8
5. Qg7+ Ke8
6. Qg8+ Kd7
7. Bf5#
At first I thought Re6 too, then thought it would be quicker with Qh6, now I see if I did that black could thwart my plans with Nf6, oops, this is fun, next puzzle please. ZZ0
Hi Susan, I’m getting ready for your next puzzle by practicing up on this chess puzzle page. http://www.wtharvey.com/ On it are 10,000 puzzles from the games of GMs: games from your sister too. Guy Roberts; Twitter name @ZZ0
I cannot believe this amazing coincidence, yet it is true.
Guy Roberts (Anonymous, July 21st,
3:46PM CDT) mentioned the http://www.wtharvey.com website that I had never seen.
Since the great Tigran Petrosian is my favorite chess player, the first position on the wtharvey website I looked at was Petrosion vs. Kopelevich, 1944. Guess what:
this position and its solution is so similar to this “Tuesday chess tactic” position, that at first I thought I must be looking at the same position, or that I had loaded the “Tuesday chess tactic” by mistake!!! Check it out. Incredible……
Lucy
1.f6 Nxf6
2.Qg5+ Kh8
3.Qh6 Kg8
4.Bxf6 Bxf6
5.Bxh7 Kh8
6.Bg6 Kg8
7.Qh7 Kf8
8.Qxf8++