Saturday, September 10, 2011

World class chess tactic


White to move. How should white proceed?

Source: ChessToday.net
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3 comments:

Anonymous said...

ng7

Venky [ India - Chennai ] said...

Hi Susan Polgar,

Nice puzzle.

White wins the game - interesting variations exist.

Any one of the initial move for White [ Ng7 / Nh6 ] wins the game.
- Variations exist.

Three examples in support of my view is as given below.
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Example One
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1.Nh6 Re7
2.g*f g*f
3.R*f6 R*Rf6
4.R*Rf6 Bf7
5.N*Bf7+ Kg8
6.Nh6+ Kg7
7.Nf5+ Kg8
8.Qg5+ Kh8
9.Rf8++ Mate

Example Two
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1.Nh6 g*Nh6
2.g*f R*f6
3.R*Rf6 R*Rf6
4.R*Rf6 Qe7
5.Q*h6 Kg8
6.Qg5+ Bg6
7.R*Bg6+ h*Rg6
8.Q*Qe7 c6
9.Qc5 Kg7
10.Q*c6 Kh6
11.Qd5 g5
12.Qf7 a5
13.c5 a4
14.c6 a3
15.c7 g4
16.c8(Q) Kg5
17.Qcg8+ Kh4
18.Qfh7++ Mate

Example Three
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1.Ng7 K*Ng7
2.Qh6+ Kg8
3.g*f R*f6
4.R*Rf6 R*Rf6
5.R*Rf6 Qe7
6.Qg5+ Qg7
7.Q*Qg7+ K*Qg7
8.R*a6 [ Rest of the moves are child's play for white to win the game ]

White wins the game.

By
Venky [ India - Chennai ]

Yancey Ward said...

I had already seen this one a few days ago on Chessbomb. Gashimov played 33.Ng7 and won when black resigned a few moves later:

33. Ng7 Kg7

If black moves the f6 rook, white will play 34.Rf5 and and black's position will collapse. For example: [33. ...Rb6 34.Rf5 Qe7 35.gf6 Qd7 36.Ne8 Qe7 37.f7 and you can get the rest of this line from the Stockfish analysis on Chessbomb. Continuing with the actual game:

34. Qh6 Kg8
35. gf6 Rf7
36. Rf5 Qd6
37. Rg5 Kh8
38. Rg7 and black can choose which man protects white's queen at h7.