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Queen checks, bishop double checks, rook mates.
1. Qf8+ Kxf8 2. Bc5 dbl ch Kg8 3. Rf8 mate
Reminiscent of Richard Reti vs. Savielly Tartakower, Wien, 1910.
Lucymarie,
Well, welcome back! You have been missed.
Thanks, Yancey. I’m glad to see that you are still following this column as well.
To Alena:
I don’t know if you were having problems with it or not- it is a difficult puzzle, but here it is again if you overlooked it:
7K/7R/6P1/8/8/8/1k4q1/8 w – – 0 1
Cohn
1. g7 Kc1
2. Rh6 Qg5
3. Rc6+ Kd1
4. g8=Q Qh4+
5. Kg7 Qg3+
6. Kh7 Qh2+
7. Rh6 Qc2+
8. Qg6 Qc7+
9. Qg7 Qc2+
10. Kg8 Qa2+
11. Qf7 Qa8+
12. Kh7 Qe4+
13. Kg7 Qg4+
14. Rg6 Qd4+
15. Rf6 Kd2
16. Qa2+ Kd1
17. Qf2 Qe5
18. Qf4 Qe7+
19. Kh6 Qc5
20. Qd6+ Qxd6
21. Rxd6+
The first goal was protection from checks. The second goal was trading queens.
Well done. Finding the sequence of the first 4 moves is the really hard part. You might want to look your line over using the Nalimov Tablebase to see how well you do after that point. When I first solved this, I didn’t go quite to the lengths you did after move 4. In any case, my solution and analysis is here.
I found two key moves yesterday. 1. g7 Kc1 2. Rh6 It requires a lot of thinking. I’m traveling now. I will post the further solution on Wednesday.
Alena, as a reward, I have given you a very nice rook and pawn ending to work on in the next thread. It was from an actual game, but is study like.