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Yes at last one i got (i think)
rh6+,kg7,qh7+,kf8,qxg8#
bigdad
I think you are wrong the white king is in chek – therefore it is illegal to move the rook. Capablanca played what I wanted to play and made a draw he played Kf2 but after Qd2+ the king can no longer excape on the other side of the ponds because if he goes king f3 black simply replies Qd1+ Therefore the right answer is Ke2! Now after Qxb2+ white can go Kf3 an black hasn’t got the chek on d1 anymore therefore the king can excape on the other side of the pawn chain Kg4 …
Ok this is what I came up with white shuld win thanks to his pawns after this:
37… Qc1+ 38. Ke2 (38. Kf2 Qd2+ this is what I was talking about earlier) 38… Qxb2+ 39. Kf3 Qc3+ 40. Kg4 Kh8 41. Kh4 Rxg6 42. Rxg6 (if you take with the queen then black has Qg7 and I don’t see a way to continue) Qc5 43. Rxh6+ Kg8 44. Qg6+ Kf8 45. Rh8+ Ke7
I’m not shure how to continue the attack but I think white must be better. (probably try to slow blacks pawns down and start rolling with our own …)
following david’s note, white has
1. Ke2 Qxb2+
2. Kf3 Qc3+
3. Kg4 Kh8 (countering white’s Rxh6+ Re6g6++)
4. Kh3 Rxg6
5. Rxg6 Qa3
6. Rxh6+ Kg8
7. Qe5
winning when black plays 7. …Rh7 white will play 8. Qe8+ winning the rook (and game). 8. …Qf8 9. QxQ+ KxQ 10. RxR
noting that 5. …Qa3 or 5. …Qc5 lead to the same result
If I recall correctly, Capablanca did play Kf2 and after Qd2+ the game was drawn, supposedly throwing the win away.
However, I was looking at the position and thought of this line:
Ke2 Kxb2+, Kf3 Qb3+!? this is the key move for black, aiming to check on d1 after Kg4 and also on h1 if necessary – how does white avoid the draw anyway?
I believe the fun of this is to calculate by your own means without using a program, so apologies if my line has a serious hole somewhere… I wouldn’t be surprised 😀
Susan, congratulations for such a great blog! Greetings from this Peruvian living in Brazil.
Interesting Qb3+! I stumbled on the solution (by luck :D) while checking if black has a perpetual and he doesn’t have one, because after Kf2! Qb2+ (the black queen can’t get closer to the white king because of the white queen c2 is protected) Then you simply go Kg1 and after Qc1+ you simply enter the back door 😀 Kh2!
So the line is:
Qb3+ 40. Kf2 Qb2+ 41. Kg1 Qc1+ 42. Kh2
(If lets say the black queen could go on c2 somehow 😀 then it would again be a perpetual because after Qc2+ Kg1 Qd1+ Kh2 black would have Qh5+ and a perpetual!, white is kind of lucky)
Greetings from Slovenija.
Correct, so Capa’s blunder was to move Kf2 instead of Ke2! which wins by force.
One thing, I was also analyzing this position again and saw the winning Kf2! after Qb3+, but there is something else.
If black chose Kg4 instead of Kf2 – thinking that it is a draw anyway, he would be proved very wrong and punished with a loss with Qxe6+! So the line would be:
Ke2! Qxb2+, Kf3 Qb3+!, Kg4?? Qxe6+ and incredibly black wins! 🙂
This type of nuances and small details is what makes chess is such a fascinating game.
Cheers!
White should play Ke2! which eliminates all checks from the black queen except for … Qxb2+. (Goes without saying black cannot play … Rxg6 because of mate in 2).
Remaining lines:
Kf3 Qc3+ (allowing defensive play along the diagonal for black)
Kg4 h5+
Kh4 (now safe from all attacks which leads to white winning)
I am sorry that I am dumb..why cant th e White King escape through g1 ?
Oh sorry…Qh5+ now I get it
Renzo said:
“If black chose Kg4 instead of Kf2 – thinking that it is a draw anyway, he would be proved very wrong and punished with a loss with Qxe6+! So the line would be:
Ke2! Qxb2+, Kf3 Qb3+!, Kg4?? Qxe6+ and incredibly black wins! :)”
Nice move I just checked the rest of the line and it is good because:
if 41. Qxe6 then Rxg6+ and black gets the queen back and is a rook up. The tactic is quite simple but finding the first move Qxg6 (for black) that is not so simple specially when you are trying to draw so congratulation on finding the move!
david and renzo’s line 39. …Qb3+
40. Kf2 Qb2+ 41. Kg1 Qc1+ 42. Kh2
loses as well.
such as
42. …Rgf8 43. Rxh6+ Kg8 44. Reg6+ Rg7 45. Rxg7+ Kxg7 46. Qg6#
Or…do like I said where move 1 is move 38:
1. – 38. Ke2 Qxb2+
2. – 39. Kf3 Qc3+
3. – 40. Kg4 Kh8 (countering white’s Rxh6+ Re6g6++)
4. – 41. Kh3 Rxg6
5. – 42. Rxg6 Qa3 (or Qc5)
6. – 43. Rxh6+ Kg8
7. – 44. Qe5
winning when black plays 7.-44. …Rh7 white will play 8.-45. Qe8+ winning the rook (and game). 8.-45. …Qf8 9.-46. QxQ+ KxQ 10.-47. RxR
Black’s best continuation