Saturday, March 21, 2009

Saturday morning chess tactic


White to move. How should White proceed?

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10 comments:

Anonymous said...

First pawn g6, then a queen check and it is good night black!

Anonymous said...

g6 followed by Ne5 & and after dxe5 Qc4+

the idea is to block the king's escape route f7

Anonymous said...

1. ke5 de 2. g6 qxg6 3. qc4+ and rh8#

not so sure about 1. g6 for example 1... qxg6 2. ne5 qxh5 3. rxh5 de

Nikolai Pilafov said...

Saturday morning chess tactic

Anonymous said...

Does anyone see a problem with 1 Qc4? It threatens 2.g6 without allowing Qxg6.

awfulhangover said...

How about 1. Qc4+ and if
1.-Bd5 2. Qxd5 Qxd5 3. g6 +-
if 1.-d5 2.Ne5! Qxe5 3. g6 +-

Anonymous said...

Not Qc4 Qxc4 g6 Qf1+ Rxf1 Re8 and Black's King escapes via f8-e7.

awfulhangover said...

Ouch, you are right. Hmmm .., what if 1. Ne5 first then? Seems like "zugzwang". If 1.-dxe5 then 2. g6 Qxg6, and after 3. Qc4+ black has neither 2.-d5 and or 2.-Qxc4.

Anonymous said...

ne5-dxe5
qc4+bd5
qxd5-qxd5
g6

Pelle said...

First Ne5 and then g6