This was an actual game against in my simul yesterday in Princeton, NJ. Black was the former US braille chess champion Jim Slagle. It is Black to move. My opponent did not find the right move and lost shortly after this. Can you find the best continuation for Black?
Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
1…Qxc4 looks like the answer
2.Qxd6 is forced(Bxd6? Qd5)Kg7 3.Qf8+ Kg6 etc. I don’t see an immediate win for white.
i’d try
1.Qf1 f3
2.Bxf3 gxf3
3.Rd2+ Kg3
4.Rg2+
and i think black is better now
greetings
Greetings,
1.Qf1!
(A)1…bxc5? 2. Qxd6 White gets the piece back thanks to attack on f8 and Bc6 with good prospects for the Queen ending.
And as for (B)1….Rd1?!
2.Qxe6+
(Interesting is 2 Qf6!? Rh1+
3. Kg3 Rxh3+!
4. gh Qg1+
5. Kh4 Qxg7
6. Qd8+ Kf7
7. Qe7+ Kg6
8. Qg5+ Kf7 should also draw )
2…Kxg7
3.Qe7+ Kg6
4. Qe6+ Kg7
and white has perpetual for Black’s King cannot afford to cross the sixth rank due to white’s Pawns and Bishop reinforcing the attack with tempo
2 f3 (Main line ctd)
( 2.(A) Qg3 bc5; 2.(B)Kg3 Qxg2+
3. Kh4 bxc5
4. Qxd6 Qxf2+ and trade of queens is inevitable on d4)
3 … Bxf3! (Main line ctd)
4. Kg3 Qxg2+
5.Kh4 (5. Kf4 Qh2+ picks white’s Queen)
5.and now simplest is …bxc5
6. Qxd6 Qf2+
7. Kg5 (7. Kh4 Qd4+) Qe3+
8.Kf6 Qd4+ trades queens and wins.
Your’s Faihfully
King.
This is a middlegame with opposite coloured bishop then I had only an objetive: attack on g2,the only point where my bishop can help me!
My moves:
1…Qf1 2.f3 Bxf3 3.gxf3 Rd2+ 4.Kg3 Rg2+ 5.King moves bxBc5 and white position is really resignable.You have some checks,but not forever and you must resign.
Really to solve some puzzle for time to time helps and helps more if you do not offer tips…I bought recently a CD with 4000 mates to solve and it does not help me because first it tell me:There is a mate…and that never happens in real game,I have not a leprechaun helping me(perhaps Topalov yes) then I prefer to solve a puzzle knowing nothing about what to find, as happens in the OTB games.Thanks for that Susan!
yea Qf1 f3 Bxf3 threaten mate. why defend when you can attack. a little backdoor queen action. the queen what a sneaky piece she is.
wolverine
Jim Slagle is a nice fellow: I lost an interesting game to him in a US Amateur Team circa 1973.
My first thought: It’s a clear win for black: Attack g2, bring the rook, check and check again, this must work…
I try the line (that many of you very rightly mentioned, should I repeat it…): 1…Qf1 2.f3 Bxf3 3.gxf3 Rd2+ 4.Kg3 Rg2+ 5.Kh4 (and now?…; I have one more check… ) Qxc4+ 6Bd4 (interception)
No more checks! What now?
I try to analize this final position and I first think: I would prefer to be white now…: White threatens two mates!!!
1) …Qxe6# (g7 is now protected by the bishop; I helped him with my last check…)
2) …Qb8+ Kf7 …Qf8+ Kg6 g8Q#
I have to stop both threats, is it possible… …Qc8! (easy to find if you’ve seen both threats but easy to miss OTB when psychologically you’re in “attacking mood”.
In fact, I find it very difficult in my own games, after an attack which hasn’t finished with a mate, to define the right moment to say to myself: OK the firework is over, “cool down” and “recoordinate your forces”.
Same for you?
If this is the Jim Slagle I’m thinking of, he’s a famous computer scientist too. I didn’t even know he played chess. He wrote a very important computer algebra program in the punched card computer era. Although he could not see the cards, he could read them by feeling the holes in them.