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easy puzzle?I think so.


  • 4 years ago · Quote · #1

    Al_Sylvester

     
    White to move and save the game.

  • 4 years ago · Quote · #2

    silentfilmstar13

    1...Qg2+ and black wins.
  • 4 years ago · Quote · #3

    Boring304

    1.Rh7+ Qxh7 2.Qxc1#
  • 4 years ago · Quote · #4

    silentfilmstar13

    Much better.


  • 4 years ago · Quote · #5

    Boring304

    It's a nice puzzle in my way...
  • 4 years ago · Quote · #6

    aaamaximum

    queen can't do g2 cuz it's pinned, and an easier way is simply Rh7

    if you let the the rook stand on c1, then all black has to do Qe3+. and the bishop white queen can't do anything cuz it's pinned, and after the white king moves, the black queen is free to remove the white queen and checkmate is easily avoided, so it's better to use Rg2, since it's a forced move. 

    making moves like  Rc1 is simply risking it 


  • 4 years ago · Quote · #7

    silentfilmstar13

    aaamaximum wrote:

    queen can't do g2 cuz it's pinned, and an easier way is simply Rh7

    if you let the the rook stand on c1, then all black has to do Qe3+. and the bishop white queen can't do anything cuz it's pinned, and after the white king moves, the black queen is free to remove the white queen and checkmate is easily avoided, so it's better to use Rg2, since it's a forced move. 

    making moves like  Rc1 is simply risking it 


    It's not risky, it's flat-out losing.  And please note the elipsis in my reccomendation for Qg2+.  An elipsis(three dots ...) denotes a move by Black.  As the Black queen is not pinned, this move is perfectly fine.  Also, when does the rook have an opportunity to move to g2?  I give your post a D+.


  • 4 years ago · Quote · #8

    addiction_to_chess

    There is a forced checkmate after 1.Rh7+ Qxh7 2.Qxe1# The answer to the puzzle also does not work because Qg2+ and black wins.

  • 4 years ago · Quote · #9

    Escapest_Pawn

    1...Qd3+ also works for black

    Not arguing with silentfilmstar, just what I saw 1st, before reading his input.  It is actually kinda interesting that Rh7 works as I tended to eliminate it as capturable, and only reconsidered it when I realized that white had to check black (as black has several available ways of checking white) and Rh7 is white's only way of doing so.



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