White to move. How should white proceed?
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White to move. How should white proceed?
1. Qf6 Qe5
2. dxe5 gxf6
3. Nexf6+ Kh8
4. Bh6 any move
5. Bg7#
Great work, Alena! You spared me the embarrassment of posting “Mate in 4.” I completely missed the interpolation 1) … Qe5, which does indeed allow Black to stay alive one extra move. Mate in 5 it is.
Thanks Lenny. Do you try to solve Yancey’s puzzles?
Those seem considerably more challenging for one with my modest analytic skills, though I’ll take a crack at the next one.
Puzzles for Alena:
R7/P5k1/1K6/6p1/5pPp/7P/1r3P2/8 w Similar theme to one I gave you a few days ago.
q5k1/6p1/1Q4Np/3pp1nP/6r1/4P1P1/8/5RK1 w
And finally, mate 3: 8/8/5Q2/8/6p1/8/3K2pk/6N1 w – – 0 1 Friedrich Dubbe, Schachminiaturen, 1902
Mate in 3
V-1
1. Qb6 Kh1
2. Ne2 g3
3. Qg1#
V-2
1. Qb6 g3
2. Nf3+ Kh3
3. Qe6#
V-3
1. Qb6 g3
2. Nf3+ Kh1
3. Qh6#
V-4
1. Qb6 Kg3
2. Ne2+ Kh4
3. Qh6#
V-5
1. Qb6 Kg3
2. Ne2+ Kf3
3. Qe3#
Excellent!
Yancey. it took me several hours to solve the second puzzle. I understood the idea (distraction of the black queen) but it was very difficult to find the right move.
1. Qa5 Rxg3
2. Kh2 Rh3+
3. Kg2 Qb8
4. Rf8+ Qxf8
5. Qxd5+ Nf7
6. Nxf8 Rxh5
7. Ne6 Rg5+
8. Nxg5 hxg5
it’s a winning position for white.
Now I will try to solve the first puzzle. Of course the idea is similar to the puzzle which you gave me before but the right king manoeuvre is hard to calculate.
It is likely that 1.Qa7 also wins, but I never worked on it long enough to be sure. Well done finding the first move and move combo 4 and 5 for white- the 5th move isn’t easy to find.
Here is the solution for the first puzzle.
1. Kc6 Rc2+
2. Kd6 Rd2+
3. Ke5 Ra2
4. Kf5 Ra5+
5. Ke6 Ra6+
6. Kd5 Ra2
7. Ke6 Ra5
8. Rd8 Ra6+
9. Rd6 Rxa7
10. Rd7+ Rxd7
11. Kxd7 Kf6
12. Kd6 Kf7
13. Ke5 Ke8
14. Kf5 Ke7
15. Kxg5 Kf8
16. Kxf4 Kf7
It’s a winning position for white.
Here is the link for the rook ending problem. You should, at least either consider 2. …Ra2, or just read my original comment from 6 years ago.
Attack g7.
1. Qf6 gxf6 (forced)
2. N(e4)xf6+ Kh8
3. Bh6 any
4. Bg7 mate.
The merit of this puzzle is that 2 of White’s moves were not checking moves.