Black to move. How should black proceed?
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Black to move. How should black proceed?
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1…e3
2.Rd4 Ne2+
1. e3!
Deadly double attack.
Threats both exd2 and Nh3+ followed by Qxb4.
To save the queen, the rook must be lost, even after:
1. … Rd4
2. Ne2+
e3 Rd4,Ne2 wins decisive material advantage
e3 Rd4,Ne2 wins decisive material advantage
how about
1. .,. e3
2. Rd4 Ne2+ (if rook moves elsewhere, queen is taken)
3. Kf1 Nxd4
4. Nf3 Rxd5
(for example)
greets, jan
Almost missed that black’s e4 pawn
could move!
1…..e3 intention Nh3+ or Ne2+ and QxQ
if 2. Qd4 or Rd4 then Ne2+
0-0-0
-0-0-
… e3!
(fxe3 – Nh3+ wins the queen)
Rd4 – Ne2+ and wins the rook.
If there were no Black pawn on the e4-square, Black could play Nh3+ and take the unprotected White queen next move. So Black plays 1. … e3 and threatens the White rook with gain of time.
Now if White plays 2. fxe3 taking care of the threat to the rook, then Black carrys out the original intention to win the White queen, 2. … Nh3+ 3. Kf1 Qxb4
White can save both rook and queen with 2. Rd4 at the cost of getting checkmated by 2. .. Nh3+ 3. Kh1 (3. Kf1 e2#) 3. ..
Qe2! 4. Nf3 Qf1+ 5. Ng1 Qxg1#
Very nice!
The white queen is hanging, and after 1….e3! so is the white rook.
Black is threatening exd2 as well as Nh3 winning the white queen.
0-1
e3! (attacking R and threatening to win Q with a chck) Rd4
Ne2+ winning R
Pretty obvious, I think. If black didn’t have the e-pawn, he could discover an attack on the white’s unprotected queen by playing Nh3+, so….
1. …..e3!
2. fe3
Or drop the rook. Continuing:
2. …..Nh3 wins the queen for a knight.
I don’t see a really good defense short of just giving up the rook at move 2 by playing 2.c4 instead.
Rcxd5 or Ne2
Rcxd5 or Ne2 seem to be promising
here is an interesting line
1. .., e3
2. fxe3, ne2+
3. Kf1, Qxb4
wins the queen
another line is
1. .., e3
2. Rd4, exf2+
3. Kxf2, Qe2+
4. Kg3, Qe3+
leading to mate
Seems that Lucymarie had the sharpest eye here.
After
1. … e3
2. Rd4
then
2. … Ne2+ is of course good, but even better is:
2. … Nh3+!
3. Kh1 Qe2!
threating both Qxe1# and Qf1#, mating in 2 more moves.
Whites best defence after 1. … e3 should probably be:
2. c4(!) exd2
3. Qxd2
giving white 2 pawns for the rook, and also white’s remaining pieces look more active than black for a while.
But black is still winning…
White has a good defense for …e3-e4. Fritz 13 in infinite analyis mode found c2-c4 allows white to delay the inevitable quite a long while. Yancey Ward and pht spotted this possibility. The play could reasonably proceed along these lines:
1. … e3
2. c4 exd2
3. Qxd2 Re8
4. f3 Qf5
5. Kf1 Rc7
6. d6 Rd7
7. Qd4 Qe6
8. Qe4 Rxd6
9. Kf2 Qxe4
10. fxe4 Rxe4
11. Kf3 Rde6
12. g3 Re3+
13. Kf2 Nh3+
14. Kg2 Ng5
15. h4 Rxe1
16. hxg5 R1e2+
17. Rxe2 Rxe2+
White should resign.