White to move. What is the best continuation for White?
1k6/1p4p1/P1p5/5Q2/2q2r2/P7/8/4R2K w – – 0 1
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a7 !! +
1. a7+ does not work due to Kxa7. 2. Qa5+ what else? ..Qa6! 3. Qc5+. Qb6! And W has no attack!
1.a7+
1……..Re8+!
A-2. Kc7. Qa5+. 3. Kd7.. Qd8#! If 3. b6. Qe5+. 4. Kd7. Qe7#!
B-2. Ka7. Ra8+!.
B-21-3. Kxa8. Qc8+!. 4. Ka7. Qxb7#!.
B-22- 3. Kb6. Qa5+!!. 4. Kxa5. axb7+!
B-221-5. Qa6. Simply Rxa6+. 6. Kxa6. b8=Q wins
B-222-5. Kb5/6. b8=Q+. 6. Kc5. Ra5+!
B-2221-7. Kd4. Qxf4+ wins the WR. 8. Kc3. Qxc4+. 9. Kxc4. Rb8!!! Cutting off the BK and the a pawn will Queen!
B-2222-7. Qb5. Rxb5+. 8. cxb5. Qxf4 wins easily with a full queen up!
Sorry, in my above solution, the move numbers should start with 1. Rd8+ not 1…..Rd8+.
Otherwise, the solution is fine. Please read ref to wins WR as wins BR in B-2222-
Sorry, read 1. Re8+! Not Rd8+
I think it’s good to have right brain/left brain errors happening because it shows that you’re enthusiastic about the visual aspect of the problem and also about communicating information, I’m really not sure why your right brain visual imagination is a mirror image or your left brain imagination but that’s the way evolution works, it tends to get stuck in a rut until something really big bounces it out of the rut and that’s when having a lot of switched off junk information about previous designs for things is useful not just in terms of simple mutations in response to survival pressure when you might want to accidentally switch them on again in a hurry to cover for a problem that more modern genes weren’t coping with but because in terms of more complex combinations of mutations the fact that they’re more primitive designs means that they tend to be more general purpose and can fit in better with new mutations which don’t fit in well with more specialized modern genetic designs.
Oh, Thanks, assuming it is a compliment!
But I do get your drift on genetic designs which are general purpose and hence more successful during mutations.
The simple fact is that I was doing the thinking and typing out solution on the site without recourse to a chess board (as many do). Shifting between picture of board and comment area is cumbersome especially when you are afraid that the typed solution will disappear! Anyway, no excuses for making the first move color mistake!
Cheers!
If you want a compliment I’m pleased that you’ve been doing consistently well at these problems but I was partly being a bit lazy and being more understanding than critical in order to get away with being lazy myself and also making up for being passive aggressive on a few occasions, but then I was going back to being passive aggressive against other people. It’s not always the case that more modern genetic designs for things are more specialized but there was probably a bit of background anger compromising my thinking.