Daily Chess Improvement: Quickie Chess Tactic!

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  Lenny says:

  June 20, 2017 at 9:28 pm

  A quick look tells the tale. Black threatens mate on the move (Rh1#), and even if that can be prevented, the a2 pawn looms large. Therefore, White must play for mate:
  1) Bxg7+, Kg8 (If Qxg7, White mates on e8.)
  2) Bf6+, Kf8
  3) Qh6+, Kg8
  4) Qh8#. The only variants involve Black’s Qg7, which simply allows Qxg7#.

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  Alena says:

  June 20, 2017 at 11:02 pm

  30 seconds

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  Yancey Ward says:

  June 21, 2017 at 12:06 am

  Also about 30 seconds. Lenny is correct- the situation calls for a check on every move for white.

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  James Attewell says:

  June 21, 2017 at 2:28 am

  A good problem for educational and confidence building purposes because the ratio of conceptual difficulty to ease of solving is fairly high because of the short distances involved in the main action. I went to sleep while I was solving it.

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    James Attewell says:

    June 21, 2017 at 2:37 am

    I meant the ration of conceptual difficulty to difficulty of solving is fairly high. Lenny was sounding pretty clever so I thought I’d have a go as well but for some reason it didn’t work in my case.

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  giorgi says:

  June 22, 2017 at 11:21 am

  B;g7 Qg7 Qe8#