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Brilliant Move Puzzle

Brilliant Move Puzzle

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Try to find the brilliant move
          In This position, White has four Pawns, a Bishop, and a Knight for three Pawns, a Knight, and a Rook. Black's dark squares are weak and White's pawn structure is slightly better. White does have an Isolated Pawn on a2, which is a weakness. White has four pieces developed, and Black has three pieces developed. Both of the Kings are endangered with the Queen pinning our Queen to the King. And we have a Queen x-raying blacks, King. White's Bishop Pair is strong, but so is Black's Bishop. This game looks like a draw but White can still play threw.
meh !!! If you give up, look at these options. !!! meh
          19. Bxe6??, This move looses to QxQ+!; 20. KxQ, fxB.
          19. Bc6?, This move might look okay, because after QxQ+!; 20. KxQ, Rc8?; "Attacking both the Bishops threw the X-Ray Attack, but white has the strong Bb6+" 21. Bb6+. "But Black does not have to move the Rooks to c8, but to take the weak a2 Pawn". 20. ..., Rxa2+.
         19. Bb4?!, White has stopped the Pin, but looses the weak a2 pawn. Qxa2! if you were to take the Queen with 20. QxQ?? There is RxQ, and know White is threatening to take the Bishop on d7 with the King, and planing to play Ra2, Scerwering the King to the Rook, Ke2, RxR. The Right move to play is Qd6, This threatens mate in two with BxP+!, Ke8, Qd7#. (Qe7 does not work with NxQ)
         19. QxQ+, Not bad, trading the Queens for a Queenless endgame. RxQ; Now we can find a pin to win the Rook. 20. Bb6+!, KxB!; This endgame is a draw even though White is winning with a Pawn.
         19. Bb6!!, This is still a drawn game but the best looking move with best winning chances. QxB (if Ke7 I would be happy to take the Queen with the Bishop. So this is kinda forced) Now we can use our Queen with BxP! There is know five options Black can try, starting with one of the worst Qd6+??, (QxQ+, Ke8, Qd7+, Kf8, QxP#). Know Qd4+?? (hangs the Queen with the Knight on f3). Know starting with the Knight moves. Ke8 looses to Qd6+, Kf8, Qf7#. Ke7 looses in two moves with Qd7+,Kf6 (Kf8 looses to another QxP#), e5#. So now we know that Kc7 is the only move that stays alive. Qd7+, Kb8, Qe8+
          22. ..., Kb7??, looses to Bd5+!, Ka7 looses to QxR#, Qc6 looses the Queen and the game with QxQ+ King moves somewhere with Qb7#. All the other moves the Queen would take the Rook.
          22. ..., Kc7 looses to Qxf7+. with QxB the next move also attacking the Rook. There is Qb1 for Black scewering the King to the Rook, but we would attack Black's Rook and Bishop. Then Black would be down a whole piece (Bishop)
          22. ..., Ka7! QxP+. If Kb8, Black just looses the Bishop. If Ka6, Black looses to Bc4+, Ka4, Qd5+, Kb4, 0-0. White's rook will get into the game with Rb1 the next move. Qb7 wants to trade Queens for a good endgame. This is still drawn with Bd5+, Ka7, BxR, KxB. This is how you draw the game
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