Sunday night chess tactic

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  Jean-Claude Schmidig says:

  January 5, 2009 at 7:31 am

  1. Nf4+-

  Idea
  2. Ng6# or

  2. Qh7+ Kh7
  3. Rh4#

  1. Nf8
  2. Qh7 Nh7
  3. Ng6#

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  Jochen says:

  January 5, 2009 at 10:34 am

  Do not forget the third idea, Jean-Claude: the simple Nxd3.

  Against all these three threats only g5 seems to last one move longer but of course fxg6 e.p. wins as black can now defend all the mates with Rg7 but loses his queen by the third threat.

  Nice one. Took me some time.

  Jochen

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  Jean-Claude Schmidig says:

  January 5, 2009 at 2:02 pm

  Jochen, after
  1…. g5
  2.fxg6 Rg7

  White must not take the Queen.
  How about
  3.Ne6! Be4
  4.Qh6

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  Nick says:

  January 5, 2009 at 2:22 pm

  Thanks to Jean-Claude Schmidig and Jochen. Sunday night chess tactic

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  Jochen says:

  January 5, 2009 at 4:47 pm

  (This blog just killed my long post so I have to retype it, argh!)

  Jean-Claude, of course white does not have to take the queen but I am sure it is the easiest way to success.
  I don’t know what a strong player you are and if you are able to (really!) calculate out all the lines after black defenses like 3. -, Rdg8 for example.
  I – for my part – am not that strong so I would really prefer taking the “winning material advantage” than playing with “great attack but material disadvantage”.

  If you are able to calculate everything out over the board and be assure 3. Ne6! wins in all variations I really pull off my hat to you (I hope this sentence makes sense in english, too, it’s a german phrase).
  If you play this cool move not taking the queen in a real game… wow!

  If not… “If there is a long but riskyless way to assure success and a short (risky?) way you should take the long one except you are totally sure the short one really wins in all lines.”
  Don’t you agree?

  Best regards from Germany

  Jochen

  PS: And if you once have such a game with such a brilliant move like Ne6 be sure to post it here. 🙂

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  Jean-Claude Schmidig says:

  January 6, 2009 at 6:56 am

  Jochen, I am a romantic player. So for the sake of the game I am looking for the nice wins.
  But I calculate as far as it needs to see the winning lines and if there is no “nice” win I also take the material.
  Here are my lines:

  3…. Rdg8
  4.Nxg7 Rxg7
  5.Rc8+ Rg8
  6.g7#

  3…. Bxe4
  4.Qh6
  a)
  4…. Rdg8
  5.Qxg7 Rxg7
  6.Rc8+ Rg8
  7.g7#
  b)
  4…. Re7
  5.Nxd8 Bxg6
  6.Rxd7! treating checkmate with Qc8

  It’s not so difficult to see that Black has uncoordinated pieces which can not hold the position.

  Best regards
  Jean-Claude