White to move. Is this a win, draw, or loss for White? No computer analysis please. This is another good one 🙂
6k1/7p/7b/p4Nq1/1B6/4R3/2P3P1/5K2 w – – 0 1
Troitzky 1898
A fantastic pattern
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Fantastic!
1. Rg3 Q:g3
2. N:h6+ Kh8 (Kg7 3. Nf5+)
3. Bd6 any
4. Be5+ Q:e5
5. Nf7+ any
6. N:e5
If I haven’t overlooked anything this is indeed a good one.
The only way to find this solution (which I hope to be a solution :)) was that I knew there was something to find.
A real game probably would have been drawn after 1. Rg3!, Qxg3 2. Nxg3? while so I play 2. Nxh6+!! and black’s king position is less secure as it looks.
2. -, Kg7? 3. Nf5+ is easy to find. Better is 2. -, Kh8 and now 3. Bd6!!. Now neither Qxd6 4. Nf7 nor any check are playable. Every other queen move leads to 4. Be5+! winning the queen (and the knight reaches the a pawn quick enough).
The final of this exercise reminded me of any other study I have once seen so I saw this quite quick.
Have I overseen anything?
Best wishes
Jochen
It took me quite some time before I found Bd6! but….
1.Rg3 Qxg3 2.Nxh6+ Kh8 3.Bd6! Qg7 4.Be5 a4 5.Bxg7+ Kxg7 6.Nf5+ 1-0.
The ending after 1.Rg3 Qxg3 2.Nxg3 should be a draw (this possibility distracted me for a while).
1. Rg3 Qg3
2. Ng3 b4
3. K32 and white wins
White wins:
1. Rg3 Qg3
(1. … ab4 2. Nh6 and then Rg5)
2. Nh6!! Kh8
(2. … Kg7 3. Nf5 and then Ng3)
3. Bd6!!
and since there are no checks, Black cannot avoid losing the Q with a N-fork in f7:
3. … Qd6 4. Nf7 and then Nd6
3. … Qc3 4. Be5 Qe5 5. Nf7
3. … Qg7 5. Be5 a4 5. Bg7
Really cute
1. Rg3 Qg3
2. Nh6+! Kh8
3. Be5
Rg3 Qg3
Nh6+ Kh8 (otherwise fork)
Bd6! Qg5 = or mate
Be5+ Qxe5
Nf7+ 1-0
Lars
Re: “pat said…”
It said “fanstastic” so I was looking for something more than this. I’m not sure what this means…
“3. K32 and white wins”
What is “K32”? Ke2?
okay, now i see:
1 Rg3 Qg3
2 Nh6+!
if 2 … Kg7, 3. Nf5 forks Q & K
if 2 … Kh8, 3. Bc3+ nets Q.
1. Rg3 Qg3
2. Nh6! Kg7 (2…Kh8 3. Bc3#)
3. Nf5 Kmoves
4. Ng3 and white is a piece up
1. Rg3 Qg3
2. Nh6! Kg7 (2…Kh8 3. Bc3#)
3. Nf5 Kmoves
4. Ng3 and white is a piece up
I think pat got the (fairly obvious) first move right, but there’s more to it:
1.Rg3 Qg3: (1.-ab4: runs first into 2.Nh6:+, only then taking the queen) 2. Nh6:+! Kh8 (2.-Kg7 3.Nf5+) 3.Bd6!!. On anything but senseless spite checks by the queen, next will be 4.Be5+ Qe5: 5.Nf7+ – 3.-Qd6: of course also runs into Nf7+
White remains a piece up in all lines, and the knight seems to be just in time to stop black’s passed a-pawn.
1 Rg3 Qg3
2 Nh6+ Kh8
3 Bd6! Qe3
4 Be5+ Qe5
5 Nf7+ wins
Obviously 2 Kg7 Nf5+
or
3 … Qd6
4 Nf7 & wins
mk
I think I’d go with:
1. Rg3 Qxg3
2. Nxh6+ Kh8 (2. … Kg7, 3. Nf5+)
3. Bd6 (I would never give one of my own moves an exclamation mark, but I really liked this one. 2. Nxh6+ was the set up.)
3. … Qg7
4. Be5 a4
5. Bxg7+ Kxg7
6. Nf5+ Kf6
7. Nd4 a3
8. Nb3 Kf5
Now it depends on what Black tries, but the kingside evens out to a draw and the queenside favors White, so I think White would win this.
This looks Troitzky-ish.
1 Rg3 qg3
2 nh6+ ! kh8
3 Bd6 qe3 (doesn’t matter)
4) Be5 qe5
5) Nf7 and wins.
1.Rg3 Qxg3 2.Nxh6+ Kg7 (2…Kh8 3.Bc3+) 3.Nf5+ and white’s a piece up.
I doubt I would have seen the line without knowing that it was there. Crazy stuff!
-Justin Daniel
1.Rg3 ab
Draw
There is also
1 Re8+ Kf7
2 Nd6+ Kf6(Kg7 is the same)
3 Bc3+ Kg6
4 Rg8+ Kh5
5 R:g5+ K:g5(B:g5)
6 B:a5
Anon 9:56
While
1. Rg3 axb4
2. Rxg5+? Bxg5 is drawn
1. Rg3 axb4
2. Nxh6+ is a clear win for white since Rxg5 follows and white will be a full rook up at the least.
timhoustontx is wrong.
1 Rg3 Qg3
2 Nh6+!
if 2 … Kg7, 3. Nf5 forks Q & K
if 2 … Kh8, 3. Bc3+ nets Q.
Bc3 Qc3