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1.Qg5 Qc5
2.Qxd8
Surely, quick and nice. White Queen on g5, then Black has to choose between Queen for Elephant, or a mate in one with White Elephant on f8.
Bd4 1-0
Qg5.
What about the future of chess when robots will also try to play?
then Qe7?
then Qe7? saves
Here must clearly be something better than Bxc7, at the best giving an unclear position. I looked at Qe6 with the threat Bxg7+, or Rf8# if Q leaves diagonal, but black has Qc5 (not Qb6).
Natural seems to give top priority to unpinning the Rf2, so I looked at Kg2, but things get complicated after Nf6 (only replay). Here Rdf1 looses to Qxf2.
Also natural seemed Bd4, but here black has Qe7 (but not Nf6).
Now reviewing my analyzes, adding the idea of cutting off Q diagonal I quickly find:
1. Qe6!
With the threat Bxg7+ Kxg7 Qxe3. Black has to keep Rf2 pinned, and avoid Qb6? Qxb6 axb6 Rf8#, so enforced is:
1. … Qc5
Now instant Bd4 fails to Qd6/Qe7, but a very unpleasant move for black is:
2. d6!
With the threat Bd4 next (if not dxc7). I find no alternative to defending with:
2. … Nxd6
3. Rxd6! (Bxd6 looked fishy) Rdc8 (Rxd6?? Qe8#. Rf7?? Rxd8+)
4. Bd4!
So far only up with bishop for 2 pawns, but the white initiative is strong here!
Summarizing I go for:
1. Qe6 Qc5
2. d6 Nxd6
3. Rxd6
and I think black’s options would be Rdc8 or Rcc8, but I don’t think black has chances to save this.
Qg5
Qg5!
Oops.
In spite of a rather long and interesting analyze, I missed:
1. d6!
With the nice threat Bd4! and there is no Qe7 to defend Rf8#. Rf7? Bd4 doesn’t help, so enforced seems:
1. … Nxd6
2. Rxd6
Not 1. … Nf6? 2. dxc7 Nxg4 3. cxd8=Q#.
The basic idea is exactly the same as my Qe6 solution, but this one looks cleaner?
Qg5 seems to end things immediately.. if the queen is taken Rf8 mate..if that’s defended white just takes the queen..
I don’t think Bd4 is that strong, Anant. What do you play if Black then plays Nf6? You may have an advantage, but it’s certainly not all over. Qg5 looks like a stronger first move, attacking the rook and queen and potentially unpinning White’s rook (and therefore threatening mate on f8) if Black’s queen moves off the a7-g1 diagonal. Looks like Black must then give up his queen for the rook…
Qg5 – threatening to capture the Q or R
Black can’t move his Q off the diagonal without unpinning the freeing the R Rf8#
I think the key is to deflect the black queen by 1. Qg5. If 1…Qxg5,
2. Rf8 mate – taking advantage of black’s weak bank rank.
@anant, if 1.Bd4 black plays 1….Qe7.
the correct move is 1.Qg5
Oops again.
I forgot that after d6 Nxd6 the bishop hangs, and I get an unpleasant pin on it after Bxd6 Rcd7.
So 1. d6 doesn’t look good after all.
On the other hand I see:
1. Qe6 Nf6!
and I fail to see an obvious continuation for white.
So I should have to find a completely new idea!
A move I didn’t look at yet was Qf5, but that is probably silly as well. Or h6.
I begin to think that the correct solution has to be:
1. Bxc7!
That’s pretty basic chess tactics, isn’t it?