White to move. How should white proceed?
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White to move. How should white proceed?
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Maybe Rd5? If Bxd5, Qf6 threatening Mate on g7, Queen cannot protect the mate so Ne6, then Bxe6 should win?
Maybe Rd5? If Bxd5, Qf6 threatening Mate on g7, Queen cannot protect the mate so Ne6, then Bxe6 should win?
AND if not take on d5, white wins the Knight!
This chess dad is right on.
1. Qf6 is met by 1…Qe5, but 1. Rd5 leaves Black with no way to prevent mate.
Qf6, doesn’t matter what black moves, Qg7#
Oops, I think 1. R:d6 is the winner – 1. R:d5 allows 1…Qd8 keeping the White Q out of f6.
Saw the game’s live coverage so many would’ve seen
1. Rd5! setting a trap
If 1….Bishop X Rook, then 2. Qf6 and mate is inevitable
R-d5?
Grischuk wants to move his White queen to f6-square and then have her checkmate Black with his Queen on g7-square. The thing preventing that is the Black queen: after 1. Qf6 Black plays 1. .. Qe5, foiling White’s plan.
White has 2 ways to effectively deal with this: take away the pawn-protection of the Black queen on e5-square by playing 1. Rxd6 or interfere with the Black queen’s access to e5-square by playing 1. Rd5 These are both strong, and either will win the game for White. 1. Rd5 is simpler and more elegant, so that’s what I choose.
1. Rd5 Qd8 2. Rxg5 wins, and
1. Rd5 Bxd5 2. Qf6 Ne6 3. Bxe6 Bxe6 4. Qg7 is checkmate
1.- Rd5!
1. Qf6 any 2. Qg7#
1 Rd5 Bd5 2 Qf6 Ne6 3 Be6, mate follows on g7
white would like to play Qf6 but Qe5 defends so white must prevent Qe5. So Rd5 seems the move after. Bxd5 Qf6 Ne6 Bxe6 wins
Further to previous comment, if black ignores the rook and plays Qd8 to defend f6 tghen the knight on g5 is hanging.
1 Rd5 !
The idea is to play Qf6 foloowed by Qg7++ without letting black defend with Qe5. 1.Rd5 Bxd5 (or other bishop moves) 2.Qf6 Ne6 3.Bxe6 and 4.Qg7
1. QF6 any
2. Qg7#
1.Rd5 Bxd5 If black plays Qd8 then RxN
2.Qf6 Ne6
3.Bxe6 followed by mate!
Rd5 will block the black queen from stopping the white queen’s mate threat at f6->g7 thereby making black lose its queen.
If White Q reaches f6 mate can follow at g7.But 1.Qf6 is met by 1… Qe5.So white prepares by 1.Rd5 Black can protect f6 square by 1… Qd8. In the process he loses N at g5.
I would love to play Qf6 here, so I would play Rd5 first to keep black’s queen from coming to e5. In addition, this allows white to win the knight at g5:
1. Rd5 Qd8
I can’t imagine any better move here. If black takes at h3 with the knight, white just plays Qf6 followed by Qg7#. And if black just captures at d5, white plays ed5 and white will get a queen and piece for a rook.
2. Rg5 wins.
Clearly White wants to mate on g7 if possible, but an immediate Qf6 is met by …Qe5.
So we can try simple the line-blocking tactic Rd5.
1) …Bxd5, Qf6 Ne6, Bxe6 and mate cannot be stopped. 2) …Qxd5 doesn’t help Black with a similar line.
3) Black can prevent the mate by giving up the Queen for free with …Bxh3, Rxa5 Ne6, Rxh3