Black to move. How can Black hold this position?
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Black loses, yes?
I want to say: b4.
The idea is that White exchanges pawns and the Bishop recaptures, giving up the defense of h6, which the White King then takes. After that, all Black has to do is keep his Bishop on the a2-g8 diagonal and sacrifice it for the remaining pawn.
-ThePatzer
Er…Black. Black exchanges pawns, Black King takes, etc. Sorry, I guess I’m too used to “White to move” puzzles.
-ThePatzer
I don’t think b4 works
because of Bxb4!
Nice one. Took me some time to find the right idea. First i calulated the following line:
1. .. a4
2. f6 Kg8(g6)
3. h7 Kxh7
4. f7 Bxf7
5.Kxf7 Kh8 (without the Bishop on d2 black can play Kh6 with draw, but now:)
6. Bc3+ Kh7
7. Bg7 b4
8. axb4 + –
so the pawn on b4 was blacks problem, wich leads us to the correct plan:
1. .. b4
2.Bxb4 a4
3.Bd2 Bb3 and white cant win as in the first line. Black will get to a8 in time.
Tobe