brilliant play from white forces resignation! Can you find the winning move?

awesome !!!

Cool sacrifice killer play to have jammed his to pawns into blacks position like that.

hmmm yes and believe it or not this is from an actual game!

Can't black do Na6?

 

Well he can, but Na6 can be then followed by Qxa6 means that the same "lose Queen or be mated" situation stands.

yea thats right

What game is this from and/or do you have the whole game,  would be intresting to see how he leads up to this.

hmmmm sorry! i dont have the whole game! btw has anybody got it on their first go?

My first thought was:

 1...Na6

 2.Qxa6 Ra8

which, if I have it right, blunts the threats- black will still have e7 under guard after 3.Qxa7 Rxa7, but it's not much better after 4. Ra8 Nc8/e8  5.RxN mate.

I'm still looking for a better continuation; but black's mistake here was to leave his queen without guard- if he had a guard on the queen, he could use his move to guard e7.

Nalikill wrote:

My first thought was:

 1...Na6

 2.Qxa6 Ra8

which, if I have it right, blunts the threats- black will still have e7 under guard after 3.Qxa7 Rxa7, but it's not much better after 4. Ra8 Nc8/e8  5.RxN mate.

I'm still looking for a better continuation; but black's mistake here was to leave his queen without guard- if he had a guard on the queen, he could use his move to guard e7.

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yea! thats good thinking but i dont think black can stop both the mate and  loss of queen at the same time, so its still hopeless for black

this would make a good but short daily puzzle

btw i got this from the NZ listener magazine