White to move. What is the most accurate continuation for White?
rnbqk1r1/pp3pp1/2pp4/2b1pP1p/2B1P3/2NP2QN/PPP3PP/R3KR2 w Qq – 0 1
Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Wesley So Chess Tactic
About Author
“accurate” would be 1.Bxf7, this chance to sacrife a bishop on f7 may never come again 😉
2.Qg6+ and 3.f6 should follow with a comfortable game, attacking is always fun, defending not so much
Bf7
Arctic Knight
1. Bxf7+ Kxf7 2. Qg6+ Kf8 3. f6 gxf6 4. Rxf6+ Qxf6 5. Qxf6+ * And white its better.
Greetings from Brazil.
In any blitz game I would play 1.Bxf7+ immediately, and that is what I am advocating for here, too.
1.Bf7+!, Kf7
2.Qg6+, K adlib
3.f6! win in every variations
bxf7 wins easily
After 1. Ng5, Black has the ol’ f7 blues.
Maybe:
1. … d5 (blocking up the bishop’s diagonal)
2. exd5 b5
3. Bb3 but Black’s problems persist.
Or:
1. … h4
2. Bxf7+ Kd7
3. Qg4 Rh8
4. Be6+ Kc7
5. Nf7 Qf8
6. Nxh8 Qxh8
7. Bxc8 Qxc8
8. Qxg7+ etc.
“After 1. Ng5, Black has the ol’ f7 blues.”
I think Black already has the ol’ f7 blues. Bxf7+ followed by Qg6+ and f6 sometime has got to be winning.
This is funny. My answer was posted first, which is most often the unlucky seat in this blog, so I went back to see where I went wrong.
Clearly, White could hit f7 immediately:
1. Bxf7+ Kxf7
2. Qg6+ Ke7
3. f6+ gxf6
4. Qxf6+ Kd7
5. Qf7+ Qe7
6. Qxg8
Bxf7 Kxf7
Qg6+
a) Kf8
f6 gxf
Rxf6 Qxf6 (if Ke7 then Qf7#)
Qxf6+ +-
b) Ke7
f6+ gxf
Qf6+ Kd7
Qf7+ Qe7
Qxg8 +- (-> Rf7 kills)
I sort of thought Bf7 right away has to work, but at the moment I don’t have time to work it through… Why threaten a move when you can just make it!?
i would play…
1. Bxf7+
…if Kxf7
2. Qg6+ Kf8
3. Ng5 (with a threat to mate) Qe8
4. Nh7+ Ke7
5. f6+ gxf6
i can no longer see beyond this 🙁
so now i’m not too sure if this the first move is correct?
-rj
Please visit http://www.gmwesleyso.com for updates about GM Wesley So recent tournaments, news, blogs, games, trivia’s, photos and other events.
After 1.Ng5 black still has 1.-Rf8 defending, but I think jcheyne found the weak point in black’s position:
1. Bf7:+! (why wait?) 1.-Kf7: 2.Qg6+ with f6 to come should be decisive.
Or 2.-Kd7 3.Qf7+ picking up the rook on g8.
bxp check and overwhelming attack
I understand Susan’s need to screen posts (filtering out Joe Wilson wannabes and other less civil snipes), but it messes up the chronology a bit and it’s hard to know who is responding to whom.
Anyway, I agree with the posts that give the immediate Bxf7. Much better than my (unnecessary) prep Ng5.
BxF7+ and the rest of the moves of this game of GM Wesley So versus Farou El Taher at 2006 Dubai Open can be viewed at Wesley So page at chessgames.com