White to move. How should White proceed?
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White to move. How should White proceed?
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1. Bd5+ to draw the Queen off of e6, followed by 2.Qa3+, skewering the King.
White can win Black’s Queen with
1. Bd5+ Qxd5
2. Qa2+ Kxc3
3. Qxd5
The only question is whether White is winning the resulting position. Black’s h-pawn is dangerously close to promotion, and White is running out of pawns. White has to prevent Black making a fortress.
1.Bd5+ QxBd5 2.Qa2+ Kxc3 3.QxQd5 +-
Bd5 follow by Qa2, and take the queen
d5
White wins the queen by:
1.Bd5+ Qd5
2.Qa2+
Bd5+ Qxd5 Qa2+ Kxc3 only move Qxd5 up a queen. Of course black can avoid having his queen deflected but then the bishop just takes the queen. Either way white gets the queen for a bishop and a pawn
LOL!! I started analyzing 1.Qa2, and spent about 5 minutes trying to catch the black king in a mating net before it hit me that I was wasting my time since there was a much, much easier way to win:
1. Bd5! Qd5
2. Qa2 wins the queen for the bishop.
Took me less then 15 secs to get this one. Bd5+ followed by Qa2+.
1. Bd5, Qxd5
2. Qa2, Kxc3
3. Qxd5,
Bd5+!
Bd5+ Qd5
Qa2+ Kc3
Qd5
Bd5+! would force black to trade it’s queen for the white bishop.
Bd5
Maybe Bd5+
At first glance white seems to have caught black off-guard, as black’s king and queen both lie on the vulnerable b3-e6 diagonal. The skewer 1. Qa2+ practically begs to be played. However, at the moment black’s queen still enjoys the protection of the f7-pawn. What to do?
Luckily, white has another resource that can attack on the b3-e6 diagonal, the light-squared bishop on g2. After 1. Bd5!, black is now forced to capture the bishop with 1. … Qxd5 or lose his queen. However, the result of this intermediate capture is that black’s queen has been forced to move from the protected e6 square. Now 2. Qa2+ forces the loss of black’s queen and all of his winning chances.
The novelty of 1. Bd5! lies in the fact that white has sacrificed his bishop in the course of creating a bishop fork on one side of black’s king to facilitate a skewer from the other side! After digesting this shish kebab, I’m sure black wishes he’d eaten at home. 😉
Ah Bd5 should do the trick
1.Bd5+! Qxd5 2.Qa2+
1. Bd5+ Q:d5 2. Qa2+ K:c3 3. Q:d5
The situation is dire since Black threatens mate, so we likely need a check. Qa2 immediately doesn’t hurt black since the Q is protected on e6.
But 1. Bd5+ attracts the Q to a square where she is not protected.
1. … Qxd5 (forced to save her majesty), but now the skewer
2. Qa2+ wins her anyway.
…
Bd5+ and after Qxd5 then Qa2+ 🙂
Bd5+
Qxd5
Qa2+
Kxc3
Qxd5
Bd5+ and Qxd5. Qa2+ skewering the Queen.
From Spain
1)Bd5+,Qd5
2)Qa2+,Kc3
3)Qd5 +-
Greetings from Spain
1. Bd5+ Qxd5
2. Qa2+ Kxc3
3. Qxd5 Bxh2
4. Qf3+ Kxb4
and White can probably pick off the Black bishop even before taking the h-pawn.
So, if I’m playing the Black pieces, will White make my day and play 1. Bxh3??
Be5 wins the black queen. If Qxe5 then Qa2.
1. Bd5 Qxd5
2. Qa2+, and 3. Qxd5, winning the queen.
Tommy K. says:
Trade the white bishop for the
black Queen and the white Queen
should be enough to prevail over
the black Bishop and pawns
1. Bd5+ Qxd5
2. Qa2+ Kxc3
3. Qxd5