White to move. What is the best continuation for White? How should White proceed?
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1. Nxg7 steals a pawn. Black can’t recapture because 2. Bh6+ discovers the attack on the queen.
Nxd6 Rxd6
Rxd6 Cxd6
Qa2+ Kh8
Bxb6 and white wins a piece!!
The most obvious tactic I see is Ng7 since Kg7 drops the queen when white plays Bh6 check, but if black plays Nd5, for example, I dont’ see much more for white than the retreat of the knight to h5 followed by the exhange at e3.
The next most obvious move to me is Nd6:
1. Nd6 Rd6 (cd6? 2.Qa2+ d5 3.Bb6)
2. Qa2 Nd5 (Qe6 3.Qe6 Re6 4.Rc7)
3. Bc5 Rd7
And, here, white has a couple of viable moves in my opinion- Re1 and Bf8:
4. Bf8 Kf8
5. Qc2 Qc2 (hard to see else)
6. Rc2 Ke7
And, now, as white, I would be tempted to try to win the a-pawn with b5 forcing black to exchange a pair of rooks
7. b5 Nb6 (anything better here?)
8. Rd7 Kd7
9. Kf1 and I think white should win this. At move 4, I think white might stand a little better than in the previous line with
4. Re1 Qd3
5. Rcd1 Qb3
6. Qb3 ab3
7. Bf8 Kf8
8. Rb1 as he wins another pawn and doesn’t weaken the b-pawn, but black might do better at move 4 with
4. …..Qf5
5. Bf8 Kf8
6. Qe2 Re7
7. Qb5 c6
8. Qa4, but it is hard to evaluate whether black does better with the queens still on the board or with them off. In all lines, white has a nearly winning edge.
All wrong so far.
in this puzzle i didn’t notice any attack on the black king, but white can win the black knight on b6 by the following continuation:
1.Qa2+ Kh8 (or Rf7)
2.Nxd6 Rxd6
3.Rxd6 cxd6
4.Bxb6.
From Spain.
1)Qa2+,Kh8
2)Nd6,Rd6
3)Rd6,cd6
4)Bb6 +-
1)Qa2+,Nc4
2)Nd6,Rd6
3)Rd6,cd6
4)Qc4+,Qc4
5)Rc4 +-
Greetings from Spain
LOL!! Don’t know how I missed it this long. I was just putting the pieces away when I realized that Qa2 check should be the first move as it immediately makes black’s c-pawn overworked (Qa2 unpins white’s bishop immediately):
1. Qa2
And black has Kh8, Rf7, Nd5, and Nc4 as replies, but it is easy to see that none of them are any real good:
1. …..Kh8
2. Nd6 Rd6 (cd6 3. Bb6)
3. Rd6 cd6
4. Bb6 and white is up a piece for a pawn- better than the previous lines I outlined in which he was up an exchange. Or
1. …..Rf7
2. Nd6 Rd6
3. Bb6! Qe6 (Rb6 4.Rd8 Qe8 5.Re8#)
4. Qe6 Re6
5. Bc7 and white is up an entire piece. Or
1. …..Nd5
2. Qd5 Qd5
3. Rd5 Be5 (Bh2? 4.Kh2 Rd5 5.Ne7+)
4. Rd8 Rd8
5. f4 Bd6 (Bb2? 6.Rc7+-)
6. Nd6 cd6 (Rd6 7.Rc7+-)
7. Rc7 and white wins this easily. Or
1. …..Nc4 (trickiest move)
And, I think white needs to carefully avoid Qc4 here:
2. Qc4 Qc4
3. Rc4 Bh2! works now
4. Kh2 Rd1
5. Rc7 Rf7
6. Ne7 Kf8
7. Bc5 Ke8
8. Rb7
Ok, this now looks ok for white, better than I initially thought it would, but I like the following a little bit better
2. Rc4 Qe6 (only move)
3. Ng7! Kg7
4. Rg4 Qg4
5. hg4 Bh2
6. Kh2 Rd1
7. Qc2 Rd7
8. Qa4
Ok, take your pick, I suppose.
All in all, 1.Qa2 looks like a winning move to me whereas 1.Nd6 should win, but doesn’t lead to the same material advantage as the former move.
Greetings,
1. Qa2+! (1. N*d6? R*d6, 2.R*d6 c*d6, 3. Qa2+ Qd5! holds)
1…Nd5 (1…Kh8 2.N*d6 wins a piece)
2. Q*d5+ Q*d5
3. R*d5 Bh2+
4. K*h2 R*d5
5. Ne7+ wins piece
King