White to move. How should white proceed?
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White to move. How should white proceed?
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I instantly like:
1. Qb7! a5 (else a7 shall fall with some check, this is important)
2. Qxf7+ Kh8
3. Qb7! Kg8 (enforced to prevent Nf7+ etc.)
4. Ng4 …
5. Ne3
and white is basicly free to harvest pawns with her queen, starting with b6.
Not commenting about the position, but personally I would fork her.
At first, I didn’t want to believe g3 was the move, but not seeing anything else, I decided to look more deeply at it. The idea, of course, is to clear the line to f7 by forcing black to move the knight, but the immediate problem is the h3 pawn which is attacked doubly after white plays g3, but this does win I think:
1. g3 Qh3 (Nh3 2.Qf7 Kh8 3.Ng6#)
2. Kg1
Now, what does black do? He still can’t move the knight without allowing the mate, unless it is with check from e2 which gives up the piece. Black will do best to keep the queens on the board, but his knight is toast.
Qb7 looks the strongest to attack the weak f7 with N and Q.
Why Qb7? What to do after Kf6?
I think 1. g3 Qh3 2. Kg1 is strong, and I don’t see how black can save the knight.
pht,
At first, I had the same thought- Qb7, but the problem I see is Kf6:
1. Qb7 Kf6 (only defense I see)
And now black can take at e5 if white plays Qxf7. White can check with the knight but this removes the pressure on f7. Also, the white queen is still tied to defending the g2 pawn. Not there is a winning path after 1.Qb7.
What do you think about these Swedish chess-sisters?
I just saw that they had begun to broadcast in english once a week.
http://www.chesstv.eu/
It looks as if white has a better position, but how to win is not so obvious.
But after quite a while i saw a move that i liked to do at first, but did not dare even to try in my mind.
Maybe only women are brave enough to make the winning move.
Dear Susan,
They are promoting the new Polgar Documentary on this channel:
http://www.chesstv.eu/niva1/pe/eng/ChessTV_382eng.htm
So, please promote the hardworking Polish-Swedish family.
This was quite a nice (and interresting) trailer.
http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=8428
PS
I, was wrong. They are now making a better production one a month after 382 episodes.
Black can play 1. …, f6, so how about:
1. g3 f6
2. Qb7+ Kg8
3. Qb8+ Kg7
4. Qxa7+ Kg8
5. Qb8+ Kg7
6. Qc7+ Kg8
7. Qd8+ Kg7
8. Qe7+ Kg8
9. Qf7+ Kh8
10. Qxf6+ Kg8
11. Qd8+ Kg7
12. Qd7+ Kg8
13. Qc8+ Kg7
14. Qb7+ Kg8
15. Qf3
Yancey Ward, you are right.
Qb7? Kf6 was the move I strangely missed to analyze.
So then it is:
1. g7 Qxh3
2. Kg1 Qf5 (f6? Qb7+!)
3. gxf4 gxf4
and black has 2 pawns for the knight.
Davey,
1. g3
and … f6 is a surprisingly good move.
2. Qb7+ Kh8
But after
3. Nf7+ !?
What will then happen?
I do not know.
Black’s knight is pinned, and White can actually get away with attacking it with g3.
1. g3 Qxh3+ 2. Kg1 Qf5 3. gxf4 gxf4 4. Qg4+ Qxg4+ 5. Nxg4
and White should win the ending.