White to move. How should White proceed?
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Hi, Susan! 1.Rxh6 should solve the puzzle.
… Kxh6 2.Qh4+ Kg7 3.Bxg5 (…Rh8 4.Bxe7 Rxh4 5.Bxh4)
Juarez Belém
Mossoró – RN
Brasil
Rxh6 Kxh6
Qh4+ Kg7
Bxg5
And black has serious problems.
I wouldn’t mind to sacrifice an exchange for the attack that is coming…
1. Rxh6! Kxh6
2. Qh4+! Kg7
3. Bxg5! and the threats of Bxe7, Bf6, Qh6 are difficult to meet.
I think
1. Rxh6 Kxh6
2. Qh4+ Kg7
3. Bxg5 threatening the queen and aiming for f6 square. If Q move, Bf6+. If Rh8, Bf6+
4. and mate next move.
Rh6 looks really good, though it took me a few minutes to see why exactly:
1. Rh6 Kh6
I really don’t know if black has anything better here, but with Bg5 lined up for white, I can’t see how not taking the rook can possibly be better:
2. Qh4
This is the move I missed for a while- I wasn’t seeing the pin on g5 at first. Continuing:
2. …..Kg7
3. Bg5
And it was now that I could see the shape of white’s edge- the incredible weaknesses on the dark squares around the black king. Where can black’s queen go? If she retreats to f8 or e8, 4.Bf6+ and 5.Qh8 is mate, and if black blocks with f6, white just takes at f6 and wins the queen at a minimum. Black can’t even take at d6 since cd6 will win the rook at c7, too, since black must still deal with the mate threat starting with Bf6+. So, it is Qg5:
3. …..Qg5
4. Qg5 a3 (honestly, what else?)
5. Qf6 Kf8
This, of course, loses instantly to Rd8+ followed by Qd8+ bagging two rooks for one and white will then scoop up the wayward a-pawn just after she queens, but Kh6 or Kh7 lose to the same maneuver I show below even more quickly:
6. Rd1! Ke8
On any other move, white will play Rh1 followed by Rh8- for example: [a2 7.Rh1 Ke8 (a1Q 8.Rh8#) 8.Rh8 Kd7 9.Qd6#].
7. Qe5 Kf8 (Re7 8.Qh8#)
8. Rh1 f5 (f6 9.Qf6 Ke8 10.Rh8+-)
9. Qf6 Ke8 (Kg8 or Rf7 10.Rh8#)
10.Rh8 Kd7
11.Qd6#
R takes Bh6 ,K takes ,Q h4 + and than Bg5
pretty obvious that Rxh6 and if Kxr Qh4+ wins
Rxh6!
1. Rxh6 Kxh6
2. Qh4+! (this pin must be the point here)
2. … Kg7 (only legal move)
3. Bxg5 with Bf6 next.
Now Qe8/Qf8 Bf6 is mate on h8.
f6 Bxf6 is a fork.
I think black has nothing better than sacking queen immediately with Qxd6.
White will be up with Q+B against R+R and the a-pawn, that will be stopped.
1. Rxh6 Kxh6
2. Qh4+ Kg7
3. Bxg5 Qxd6
4. cxd6 f6 (only against Bf6 Qh8 mate)
5. dxc7 a3
6. Bxf6+ Kf7
7. Bxe5
is one possible outcome…
1. Rh6x, Kh6x 2. Qh4+, Kg7 3. Bg5x and White continues with Bf6 and Qg7#
1. Rxh6 Kxh6
2. Qh4+ Kg7
3. Bxg5 Q~
4. Bf6+ K~
5. Qh8#
Rh6+ If Kxh6, Qh4+, Followed by Bxg5,
if 1. Rxh6, then black can’t take the rook back, as this line shows:
1. Rxh6 Kxh6
2. Qh4+ Kg7
3. Bxg5 Qe8
4. Bf6+ Kg8
5. Qh8#
sure enough, if
3. … f6, then
4. Bxf6 wins the queen. (better than being mated though)
greets, jan
1. Rxh6 Kxh6
2. Qh4+ Kg7
3. Bxg5 Rh8
Moving the queen results in Bf6+ and Qh8#
(3. … Qxg5 4. Qxg5 +-)
4. Bf6+ Qxf6 or else 5.Qxh8#
5. Qxf6+ Kh7 (Kg8 6. Rd8+!)
6. Rxc6 +-
(1) RXh6+ Kxh6
(2) Qh4+ Kg7
(3) Bxg5 Qe8 or f8
(4) Bf6+ Kg8
(5) Qh8++
RxB KxR
Qh4+ Kg7
Bxg5 Q moves
Bf6 followed by Qh8++
This position is screaming for 1. Rxh6
A. E.
Oslo
1. Rxh6!
This puzzle makes me want to play Qxg6+. So lets first see if we can make that happen
Rxh6 Kxh6 Bxg5+ Qxg5 Qxg5+ Kxg5. That’s not quite right.
Maybe Qh3 at the right time?
Qh3 does threaten mate (Qh3 a3 Qxh6+ Kf8 Qh8#)
Hmm, well that looks pretty good!
1.Rxh6 Kxh6
2.Qh4+ Kg7
3.Bxg5 Qe8
4.Bf6+ K~
5.Qh8#
RxB means white can force the black queen off.
1.Rh6 Kh6
2.Qh4 white wins
Of course, Qh3 Rh8