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1…Nxh2 2.Kxh2 g4 🙂
oh, wait, no! never mind, Qxh5. sorry
Nxh2?
Nxh2 looks nice, but fails to Qxh5. i think it’s Nf6. some examples:
1. … Nf6
2. g3 Bg5
3. Qg2 Bxe2
winning the knight
2. h3 g4
3. hxg4 Bxg4
winning the queen
2. Nxd4 Bg4
3. Qe3 exd4
winning the knight
i think, all other lines also win the queen. greets, jan
Ne3 threatening Bg4
White’s queen is suffering a (fatal?) case of claustrophobia, I think. Is there a way to take advantage of the coffin she seems to have put herself in? If we could bring the c8 bishop to g4, it might win the queen. To me the most obvious way to enact this plan is to play Ngf6:
1. …..Ngf6
Now, what can white do to save his queen? He could capture at d4 with the knight to open up the e3 square for the queen, but will be down a piece for a pawn. Or he could open up a hole at g2 for the queen by playing g3 (or g4 but lose the pawn, too), but this will lose a full knight at e2. The only other options are to get two pieces for the queen by playing either Ng3 or Nf4. Of all of these, the one that looks best to me is to just take at d4 with the knight:
2. Nd4 Qd4 Garnering a knight for a pawn in black’s favor.
Now, is there a way that black can force white to give up the queen for a piece? The other knight move that caught my eye was the capture at h2 on move 1, but I can now see that I had initially overlooked that the queen can capture at h2 after capturing at h5 when black tries 2. …Bg4.
So, best I can find right now is winning a knight for a pawn in black’s favor. If I can find anything else, I will post another comment.
Looks like Nxh2 wins the exchange, for after Kxh2, g4 traps the Queen.
1….. Nxh2
If 2 Qxh5 Bg4
If 2 Kxh2 g4
1….. Ne3 doesn’t work
2. fe leaves f2 open for retreat
White has done something wrong at the beginning, I think. 🙂
After 1… Ngf6 the white or save the Queen or loses a piece.
1… Ngf6
2. h3 g4
3. hxg4 Bxg4 (Disastrous)
———–
1… Ngf6
2. g3 Bg4
3. Qh1 Bxe2
4. Re1 Bg4
5. h4 gxh4
6. Qxh4 (With remote possibility of counterplay? I doubt it.)
————–
1… Ngf6
2. Nxd4 exd4
3. e5 Bg4
4. Qxc6 Nd7
5. e6 Bxe6
6. Bxe6 Ne5!
7. Qe4 fxe6 (And Black has a good advantage.)
Best regards
Stef
Ng-f6
1…Ngf6
threatening 2….Bg4 trapping the queen. Possible replies –
2.h3 g4 3.hxg4 Bxg4 and the queen is trapped.
White’s best try seems to be –
2.g3 Bg4 3.Qg2 Bxe2 and black is a piece up with a nice position.
1…Ngf6! and white will have to give up a piece to save the lady.
1….Nxh2!? caught my attention first. But Qxh5 seems to solve white’s problems.
But then I felt that the solution must be strategic.
1……. Ngf6! with the threat of Bg4 trapping the queen.
2. g3 Bg4
3. Qg2 Bxe2 wins a piece.
If Qxh5 then the bishop can trap the queen.
I’m always paranoid about these ones that look easy because Susan often posts ones with a “dummy” solution where you think you have it but then realize that doesn’t work…
The knight is en prise after Nxxh2, Bg4…
Well, I put it through Houdini and it says Black is only up two pawns. Black’s first move is also a passive type of move.
Susan also only gives the go ahead to WRONG solutions to the answer first though I doubt many/any will get this, given that they are looking for something that ends the game.
I don’t think Bg4 is a good reply for Qxh5
1…. Nxh2
2.Qxh5 Bg4
3.Qxh2 Bxe2
4.Re1
1…. Nxh2
2. Qxh5 Nxe1
3. Kxe1 g4
Queen trapped.. but not certain how to proceed