White to move. How should White proceed?
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White to move. How should White proceed?
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1. f5 gxf5
2. g6 fxg6
3. Nxg6+ Kf7
4. Rd7+ Kxg6
5. Rxe8
threatening to take the bishop as well as push the f6 pawn up to f7.
after 5. … Kxf6
6. Rxb8
white has a rook for black’s two k-side pawns.
Is there a better alternative for white?
f5!
1.f5 exf5
2.g6 fxg6
3.Nxg6+ Kg8
4.Rd7
5.Rg7X or Rxd8X
I would continue with 1.f5. Now 1… gxf5 seems forced. Following up with 2.g6 fxg6 3.Nxg6+ Kf7 4.Rd7+ White should win.
Beelze
I dont see any other way to proceed
1. f5!? gxf5
2. g6 fxg6
3. Nxg6+ Kf7
4. Rd7+ should pick up the rook
Nxg6+ seems like way to go – HH
1. f4-f5
If 1. … Rc5xf5 then simply 2. Ne7xf5.
If 1. … g6xf5 2. g5-g6 (threatening 3. g6-g7 mate) forcing 2. … f7xg6 3. Ne7xg6+
If then 3. … Kf8-g8 4. Re2xe8+
If 3. … Kf8-f7/g7 4. Rd2-d7+ Kf7/g7xg6 5. Re2xe8
and to me it looks like White has the better game from here….
–br
It seems not so trivial. The right path is: 1. f5! gxf5 2. g6! (at first I was looking at Rh2, but of course the Bb8 covers it) fxg6 (forced) 3. Nxg6+ Kf7 4. Rd7+ and White wins after 4…. Kxg6 5. Rxe8.
1.f5 gf5
2.g6 fg6
3.Rd7 and finito
The winning move is
1. f5! when black cannot allow
2.fxg6 and so
1…..gxf5
and then
2.Rd7 threatening 3.g6 is unanswerable.
Nxg6+ fxg6 Rxe8+ Kxe8 Re2+ Kf8 Re7
Nxg6+ fxg6 Rxe8+ Kxe8 Re2+ Kf8 Re7
does not seem to lead anywhere.
How about:
1. f5 if gxf5
then 2. g6 fxg6
3. Nxg6+
Jorg,
What about continuing your line?
1. Ng6 fg6
2. Re8 Ke8
3. Re2 Kf8
4. Re7 Rf5!
5. Re4 h4
6. Rd4 Ke8
7. Re4 Kf7
8. Re7 Kf8
9. Re4 h3!
10.Kg3 Bf4
11.Kh3 Bg5 wins easily for black. There are few alternatives in this line for white, and they all look equally bad. Giving up the knight for a single passed pawn is hopeless in this position due to the weak backward f-pawn and the equally weak g-pawn.
I would leave the knight where it is until I could break up the black pawn structure on the kingside- the move I like is f5 which needs the support of the knight where he is. This way, when I play Ng6, I create two passed and connected pawns, not just one with a weak supporter, or I can take without having to worry about fg6.
1. f5 gf5
2. g6! fg6 (forced by g7# threat)
And, from here, Ng6 and Rd7 both win, but the win is quicker with
3. Rd7 Kf7 there is nothing better
4. Nd5 Kf8
5. Re7 Re7
6. fe7 Kf7
7. Nf6 and the pawn will queen.
Other replies also don’t help black in here 1. ….Be5 seems the most resistant:
1. f5 Be5
2. fg6 Bf6 (fg6 3. Ng6 wins too)
3. gf6 fg6 (forced)
4. Ng6 Kf7
5. Re8 Ke8
6. Re2 Kf7
7. Nf5 and the pawn is safe due to the threatened fork, white is up a piece, and the rook will eventually have to be sacrificed to keep the pawn from queening.
1. f5 looks good. If 1…gxf5 then 2. g6 fxg6 3. Nxg6+ Kf7 4. Rd7+ Kxg6 5. Rxe8 winning. If Black does nothing, White plays 2. fxg6. I don’t see a defense for Black.
1.f5 gxf5 2.g6
Yancey, you are right. f5 is obviously the answer, hopefully in a game I woud have just nudged a rook rather than making the sacrifice without a concrete line