White to move. What should White do?
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Simple tactic? Or is it?
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White to move. What should White do?
This is much to complicated to me,
but I would play Qh7+, Qh8+ usv.
without hisitation.
1.Qh7 ch, kf8
2.qh8 ch, BxQ
3.RxB ch, Kg7
4.Rxe6 checkmate
Best seems to me to be:
1. Qh7+ Kf8
2. Qxg7+ Kxg7
(2…Nxg7 3. Rh8#)
3. Rxe6+ winning
(3…Kg8/Kf8 4. Rh8#)
(3…f6 4. Rxe7+)
(3…Nf6 4. Rxe7
(3…Qf6 4. exf6+)
If someone sees a forced mate, by all means overrule me…
isn’t 1.Rxe6 crushing? (now Qh8+ leads to mate….)
Bill Brock
Chicago
I first thought 1.Rxe6 was crushing but it isn’t.
1.Qh7+ Kf8 2.Qxg7+ (the point) Kxg7 3.Rxe6+ Qf6 4.Rxf6 Nd5 5.Rxc6+ etc easily winning.
1. get rook e6 ouf ot he way
2. exchange bishops on the black fields
3. then check with Q8++
At least, that is what I think…. 🙂
There is no forced mate as far as I can see, but just pretty good material gains:
1. Qh7+ Kf8
2. Qxg7+ Kxg7 (2…Nxg7 3. Rh8#)
3. Rxe6+ Qf6 (3… Kf8 Rh8#)
4. Rxf6!
And if 4…Nxf6 5. Bxf6 Kf8 6. Rh8#. White has a Rook and a Bishop for the two Knights.
This is a very easy pattern of rook and bishop, with mate in three, nothing else! 1.Rxe6 Qxe6 (forced) 2.Qh8! Bxh8 3.Rxh8++
Of course 1Re6 fe6 and not Qe6 and escapes from f7 Zagreb1959.
1. Qh7, Rf8
2. Qxg7, Rxg7 (Nxg7 3. Rh8++)
3. Rxe6, Qf6
4. gxf6, Nxf6
5. Bxf6, Rf8
6. Rh8++