White to move. How should white proceed?
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White to move. How should white proceed?
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1. Nf8 Qxe7 2. Nxg6+ Kh7 3. Nxe7
2. .. Kg8 3. Nxe7+ 4. Kf7 and Black is only losing the exchange.
1. Nxe5
My bad, that doesn’t work because the knight would be pinned against the king after 1. …Qxe7. Gotta move that king first for that to work.
It would seem 1) Nxe5 might provide a viable alternative, and White garners the Exchange plus a pawn.
The N is pinned after Qxe7.
Puzzle for Alena:
8/8/7K/8/8/p3B3/2P1k3/8 w – – 0 1 Godes, 1983
White to move and win.
Yancey, I missed you. Here is the solution for the first puzzle.
1. Bg5 Kf3
2. Kg6 Ke4
3. Bf6 Kd5
4. Kf5 Kc4
5. Ke4 Kc5
6. Ba1 a2
7. Kd3 Kd5
8. Kc3 Kc5
9. Kb3 Kb5
10. c4+ Ka5
11. Kc3 Ka4
12. c5 Kb5
13. Kd4 Kc6
14. Kc4 Kc7
15. Kb5 Kd7
16. Kb6 Ke6
17. Kb7
And finally, a nice pair of endgame studies:
8/4P3/8/2B1r3/1P2k3/8/3K4/8 w
8/4P3/8/2B1r3/1P2k3/8/2K5/8 w
Here is the solution for the second puzzle. The first move is obvious.
1. b5 Kd5
2. Ba3 Re4
3. Kd3 Rd4+
4. Ke3 Re4+
5. Kf3 Re1
6. Bb4 Re6
7. Kf4 Re2
8. Kf5 Re6
9. b6 Re5+
10. Kf6 Re6+
11. Kf7 Rxb6
12. e8=Q Rxb4
And now the ending which I’m not good at. It was easy for me to reach it but it’s hard to win it.
I don’t have time today to go over your solutions to these two problems in detail, but at a glance they appear correct. Here is the link to my solutions for both: Link.
Here is the solution for the third puzzle.
1. Bd6 Re6
2. b5 Kd5
3. Bb4 Re3
4. Kd2 Re6
5. Kd3 Re5
6. Kc3 Re4
7. Kb3 Re2
8. Ka4 Re5
9. Ka5 Kc4
10. Bd6 Re6
11. b6 Kd5
12. b7 Kxd6
13. b8=Q+ Kxe7