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01-04-2009, 06:36 AM
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Simple and Beautiful.
Black to play and Win.
Hint: click to show White's Queen is "Overworked".
Solution:
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01-04-2009, 06:00 PM
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Without looking at the solution, I think
click to show ...Nd2 wins the queen if not the game.
1. ...Nd2 2. Qxd2 Rxb1+ 3. Nc1 Rxc1 4. Qxc1 Bxc1 and then black has a pretty easy win. |
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01-04-2009, 07:00 PM
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Nice puzzle, I was actually thinking RxR first to enable the N fork, but I see now how (not surprisingly) that is actually the weaker continuation! 
Figures...  |
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01-04-2009, 07:24 PM
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Originally Posted by anisotropy
Without looking at the solution, I think
click to show ...Nd2 wins the queen if not the game.
1. ...Nd2 2. Qxd2 Rxb1+ 3. Nc1 Rxc1 4. Qxc1 Bxc1 and then black has a pretty easy win. |
Yes. Though after click to show Rxb1, Kf2 is probably a little stronger. White loses the exchange regardless, which will cost him the game, though keeping his Queen will allow him to fight a little longer.
Originally Posted by Skwerly
Nice puzzle, I was actually thinking RxR first to enable the N fork, but I see now how (not surprisingly) that is actually the weaker continuation!
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Thank You Skwerly.
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01-05-2009, 12:10 AM
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Originally Posted by Skwerly
Nice puzzle, I was actually thinking RxR first to enable the N fork, but I see now how (not surprisingly) that is actually the weaker continuation!
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Actually, black wins the exchange in either variation, so I'd think getting the rooks off the board first would be stronger. That was my solution, as well.
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01-05-2009, 12:16 AM
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Originally Posted by Fromper
Actually, black wins the exchange in either variation, so I'd think getting the rooks off the board first would be stronger. That was my solution, as well.
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I also, thought the same thing. Though, let's see. RxR, QxR, Nd2, Forking the Queen and rook. It looks like Black will capture the Rook at f3, (Winning the exchange.) though after Nd2 White has the intermediate move of Qb8+, after which, White can move the rook out of the scope of the knight. (Thereby avoiding losing the exchange.)
( I should also point out to the up and comers, that Qb8+ is played with Tempo, which allows the Rook to escape the fork.)
Of course, if: Nd2, RxR, NxR+, BxN, QxR. And Black still wins the exchange.
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01-05-2009, 01:54 AM
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Originally Posted by planetchess.org
I also, thought the same thing. Though, let's see. RxR, QxR, Nd2, Forking the Queen and rook. It looks like Black will capture the Rook at f3, (Winning the exchange.) though after Nd2 White has the intermediate move of Qb8+, after which, White can move the rook out of the scope of the knight. (Thereby avoiding losing the exchange.)
Of course, if: Nd2, RxR, NxR+, BxN, QxR. And Black still wins the exchange.
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You're right. I should have caught that. These are the types of mistakes I make when I'm just casually looking over puzzles on the internet that I don't make in slow tournament games. This is an easy enough tactic that I'm pretty sure would have caught that when it mattered. But I do need to keep pounding away at the puzzles so these things will jump out at me even when I'm not really paying attention.
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01-05-2009, 03:23 AM
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Originally Posted by Fromper
You're right. I should have caught that. These are the types of mistakes I make when I'm just casually looking over puzzles on the internet that I don't make in slow tournament games. This is an easy enough tactic that I'm pretty sure would have caught that when it mattered. But I do need to keep pounding away at the puzzles so these things will jump out at me even when I'm not really paying attention.
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Yea, it appears simple at first. Though turns out to be an instructive little puzzle.
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"I absolutely agree with the well-known maxim: 'Chess is 99% tactics." GM Susan Polgar
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