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P-g5 ?
The clue is that the righteous-looking white Queen has been distracted and is not actually taking part in the game.
So the black Bishop, wielding the sword of truth, shall smite the white Bishop from the face of the earth with
1…Bxb4.
White can now only regret the past and play for time with
2.Qc8+ Kh7
3.Qf5+ Kh6 (or its a draw)
4.Qxf4+ g5 (clearly best)
5.Qxf3 exf3
6.g4 h4
7.b4 f5
8.b5 (not gxf5 Kh5 and g4#)
8….fxg4
9.Kxg4 f2
10.Kf5 or it is mated quickly
10…f1=Q+ and its over
The white Queen was distracted from protecting its main charge, the King.
White has paid dearly for being on another planet. It has huffed and puffed in vain when it should have given up at the beginning.
As Garry Kasparov says, How Life Imitates Chess.
This is a toughy. Tried a bunch of wierd lines starting with 1… e3 (because there must be a tactic), but they are not working.
1. … Qg4+
2. Kg2 Bxf4
3. Qa8+ Bb8!
4. Qxb8+ Kh7
Now, Black could try to promote the e-pawn.
5. Qf4 Qe2+
6. Qf2 Qd3
7. Qf5+ Kh6
8. Qf4+ seems to be holding for white
—
1… e3 is interesting, but fails:
2. Bxe5 e2
3. Qc8+ Kh7
4. Bc3 Qf1+
5. Kh4
now the white Q on c8 prevents black from playing 5. … Qf5. Otherwise, it would be mate: 6. h3, g5#
—
Another try is 1… Kh7
However, don’t see a forced win.
2. Bxe5, Qf5+
3. Kg2, Qxe5
4. Qe2
—
look forward to a solution from you all.
It is a good one. Let me not give the whole continuation, but just the first move.
The move is 1..Bxf4 and there is no perpectual checks. Now figure it out!
Qg4+ and bxb!
1. … Bxf4
Seems straightforward, the obvious-looking Bxf4 is the key:
1… Bxf4
2. Qc8+ Kh7
3. Qf5+ Kh6
4. Qxf4+ g5!
and now white has nothing left to try. Perhaps:
5. Qd6+ Kg7
6. Qe5+ Kg6
7. Qd6+ f6
Now the checks too have run out. So if now let us say white tries to protect f1 where black is threatening mate, then:
8. Qa6 Qf2! with no defence against g4+ followed by Qxh2 mate.
Or, if he tries for a queen exchange:
8. Qd2 Qf1+
9. Qg2 g4+!
The queen is lost, and checkmate a couple of moves later.
I haven’t found much, probably i’m overlooking something simple…
I’ll give just one line though:
2. Bxe5 .. Qf5+
3. Kg2 .. Qxe5 threatening the b2 pawn
4. Qc8+ .. Kh7 (if .. Kg7 White trades queens and the resulting endgame is +-)
5. Qc2 hindering the advance of the white ‘e’ pawn,
but .. Kh6
6. Kf2 .. h4 (now if 7.gxh4 a skewer follows)
but i can’t see further…
…g5 or Bx4 doesn’t work, because 2.Qc8+ Kh7 3.Qf5+ winning the Bishop.
Then …Qg4+ 2.Kg2 Bxf4!
Qg4+ and BxB should win I belewe
1…. Qg4+
2. Kg2 B:f4
The simple 1…. B:f4 fails to 2. Qc8+ Kh7 3. Qf5+ and 4. Q:f4.
CraigB, that what I thought too, but then white can check at a8 and take the pawn at e4 with check and then take back the bishop with the queen
Anon 1:56:00 AM, very nice solution. Thanks!
You seem to know what happened prior to this move. Are you D. Navara?