(board color of the Colts and Saints)
Black to move. How should Black proceed?
2k4r/ppp2p2/2b2B2/P6p/6pP/2P1q1bP/1P3N2/3RRQK1 b – – 0 1
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1. Qc6 and it’s over almost as fast as the SB
gxh and there are no tricks. White has a hard time meeting h2++
everything is forced. Bh2+ Kh2 Qf4+ Kg1 Qg3+ Qg2 Qg2++
1. … Bh2+
2. Kxh2 Qf4+
3. Kg1 Qg3#
Aren’t there 2 wins?
1 ..gh mates,
but so does
1..bh2
2 kh2 qf4
3 kg1 qg3
4 qg2 qg2#
Qc3 and wait until White runs out of checks.
gxh is very complicated because White can respond Qxh3+.
Mark
okay
…Qf3 threatens …Bf2 (white must recapture with the queen) allowing …Qh1#
white can play:
2 Re8+ hoping for …Bxe8 which would allow:
3 Rd8#
so, as long as black takes with the rook, not the bishop, back rank swindles are avoided.
there is one ‘legit’ line:
1 … Qf3
2 Rd3 Bxf2+
3 Qxf2 allows … Qh1#
or
3 Kh2 Qf4+
4 Rg3 Qxg3#
otherwise, white must punt. maybe next year…
(white’s coach may be out of a job)
(possibly the cheerleaders, too)
Black makes four moves and white has only one legal response to each of them
Bh2+ Qf4+ Qg3+ and Qxg2 mate
More of a Toilet Bowl Chess Tacticsuremict
okay, okay (dammit)
1 … Qf3 allows
2 Ne4
!!!!!!!!!!!!
give me a sec
Bh2+ Kh2 Qf4+ Kg1 Qg3++
1. … Bh2 2. Kh2 Qf4 3. Kq1 Qg3 4. Qg2 Qg2#
Bh2+ (mate in 4)
1…Ba2+
2. Kxa2 Qc4+
3. Kb1 Qb3+ and mating
okay okay okay
let’s try:
1 … Bh2+
2 Kh2 g3+
3 Kg1 gf2+
4 Qf2 Rg8+
that’s as far as i got
Qf4
gxh & h2 mates. The Q can’t take
because its guarding f2 & the knight is pinned.
Qc3…bye bye white
Much simpler 1. . . Bh2+
2. Kxh2 g3#
Tommy K. says:
1. …gxh3 doesn’t seem to lead to mate as white can put his Queen en prise by Qg2. This gives the King a square at f1 to escape. If hxg2 or Bxg2 then …Rxe3