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Qh4, threatening Qxh2#
If Rxh4, Rg1#
If Kg2, Rxg4 wins.
1…Qh4 2.Qf6+ Qxf6 3.Rg3 Nxh2 4.Kxh2 Qh4+ 5.Kg2 Rxg3+ 6.fxg3 Rg8 7.Nd2 Rxg3+ 8.Kf1 d3 9.Nf3 Rg1+ 10.Nxg1 Qf2#
Please, let’s not use computer programs even in such simple puzzles.
2. Qf6+ is obviously a computer line merely sacrificing everything in
order to postpone the checkmate for another 4-5 moves. Let us think,
invent, solve, and have fun doing it.
I was aiming for coffee house style. I think that the whole phenomenon of coffee house chess wouldn’t have existed without powerful class snobbery, so that high class drinking establishments knew their clients would want to distinguish themselves from commoners and hosting chess games was an excellent way of doing that since chess had been associated with kings having their own chess champions. I can make fun of the coffee house playing style if I want to and your last sentence sums up what I was doing.
I’m very sorry I lost my temper, it’s just that here in England we appear to have regressed to a 1950’s level of nationalism and I’m feeling frustrated about the lack of social progress.
I’d appreciate it if you could be kind enough to give at least a conditional apology for the suggestion that I used a chess playing program to help me with that line, although I suspect that at least some of the deliberate silliness I included wouldn’t be played by a computer. If I might make a suggestion people might like you more if you try to see things from a less narrow viewpoint, for instance what seems like a very simple puzzle to you might be a very difficult puzzle for others.
My kindest apologies. I’m not British, the coffee house chess style is a concept
completely alien and unknown to me, so this is why I did not catch the sense of
humor in the answer. Silly of me. I was under impression that the suicide delay
giving Q for absolutely nothing is hardly a human move. Thanks for explaining
to me what the intention was. A counter-joke comes to my mind: the English
gentlemen in old coffee houses in old days played like computer programs of
the 21st century! It is my compliment to all of them. :-)))
Nervousness can be a big problem for chess players and alcohol is a way of getting round that, it’s probably no coincidence that two of the most tactically powerful players ever, Alexander Alekhine and Mikail Tal had problems with alcohol. And I think I was calculating a lot better than usual even though my drunken boldness was only make believe. So I was being unfair to at least that extent.
white paying price for delay in development.
No kidding!
1…Qh4 wins in all lines. For example, 2.Rxh4 Rg1#. The threat of 2…Qh2# will cost a lot of material. This is because white has delayed development and an open G-file. The only way to stop mate is 2.Qf6+ but after 2…Qf6, Black is threatening 3…Qh4 again and at the same time, he is a queen ahead.