Hintless Puzzle #4

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kco
Hi, I will be posting puzzle weekly especially for those who don't like the
dailypuzzle much or find the hints and title annoying cause you don't have clues while playing OTB do ya ? Of course not ! So please don't give answers here straight away. I wil give the answer till Wednesday and a new puzzle next Sunday. Please don't say is 'easy'  or 'first' or if you don't like it cause is too hard (Good !) go to 'here'
p.s. anyone who use an engine before the answer I will never speak to you again. Tongue out
Today puzzle,  is White to move.
Hintless Puzzle #3                             Hintless Puzzle #5
orangehonda

I see it :)

Was this position from a real game?  I dunno, sometimes I think I see the solution to puzzles from books more easily than odd puzzles out of games... even though most puzzle position do come from real games Tongue out  I guess that's not very clear is it... but to be clear would be to give a small hint ;)

kco

All of the puzzles that I am posting are from real games otherwise stated and they are collected from Leonard Barden. Will reveal who played the game on Wednesday. 

orangehonda
BorgQueen wrote:
orangehonda wrote:

... but to be clear would be to give a small hint ;)


Hintless puzzle...


Which is why I didn't elaborate :p

Saying there would be a hint involved is too small to help with the nature of the puzzle IMO.  In fact saying that I was able to solve it is more of a hint ;)

kco

I am not posting the answer yet cause I haven't found it yet ! so far I've got

1.Rg4 +  Kxf6

kco

you will just to have to wait ? *shrug*

cloggy

Got it in about 1 minute

kco

that explain your rating

Quilford

Waaaaay too easy.

kco

show-off :-p

cobra91

What on earth?? A few days ago, I wasn't able to post in this thread (nor, coincidentally, in any of the other "hintless puzzle" threads by kco), but now I suddenly can. Cool

Anyways... BorgQueen, I'm sure that even if he really can't get it, he must have access to the solution (since he said it's from an actual game), and won't just keep us impatiently waiting... Laughing

But kco, don't give up... I solved this one within minutes, and it isn't really all that hard Smile

kco

yeah I saw that on your homepage !! I blocked you just for a few days so you keep quiet in here ;-)

kco

I think I've got it

1.Rf4+  (to protect f6 pawn and cutting off King ) if Kg5 or Kh5 ? 2.Qf5#
1...... Rxc2 forced  (same result for Rc3 or Qc3, I think ) 
2.Rg8+  (if Kh5  3.Rf5+ Kh4  4.g3+  Kxh3  5.Rh5+ Qh4  6.Rxh4#
2....... Rg7
3.Rxg7+ Kh5
4.Rf5+  Kh4
5.g3+   Kxh3
6.Rh5+ Qh4
7.Rxh4#

edit: note for Rc3 or Qc3

1.Rf4+  Rc3        1.Rf4+  Qc3
2.Rg8+ Kh5         2.Rg8+ Kh5
3.Qe2+ Rf3         3.Rf5+  Qxf5
4.Qxf3#              4.Qxf5+ Kh4
                         5.Qg4#

sewook98chess

so easy

kco

Spoiler Alert ! solution down below.

Phen Minh vs Tran Quoc, Vietnam championship 2002

  In common with other Asian countries such as India,China and Uzbekistan, Vietnam is a rising chess nation with nucleus of grandmasters and young talents.
  Positions with roaming queens and rooks are highly blunder-prone. Here White (to play) has level material,the black king is in serious danger, but White's queen is under threat.
  Textbooks tell you that double checks are tremendous, (HINT !) yet here 1.Rg4++ Kxf6 surprisingly allows White no convincing follow-up. The other obious play 1.Rxd4+ Rxc2  could even favour Black as White's f6 and a2 pawns are both weak.
   Little-known Phen Minh kept calm and made the right choice in the diagram.How did White force a rapid win ?

Solution: 1.Rf4+! Rxc2  2.Rg8+ Kh5  3.Rf5+ Kh4  4.g3+ Kxh3  5.Rh5+ Qh4 6.Rxh4#

this puzzle appear in the Western Australia's Sunday Times by Leonard Barden

kco

Hey ! I did not read your answer, I swear to God !

kco

I keep looking at 1.Rg4++ the whole bloody time ! 

kco

in which i did today.

kco

Help: can anyone find this game and post it here please.

kco

Somebody must have it.