Puzzles from Games - hypercard

Sort:
Avatar of hypercard

I figured that maybe it would be helpful for y'all to solve puzzles from actual games from people so that you can learn how people play and miss things. 

Every day (hopefully), I will be posting a portion of a game that was played in the last 5 days (feel free to suggest your own puzzles). Put yourself in my shoes and find the tactic! The puzzles will be getting harder happy.png

Black to play. Find the winning continuation (3 moves)

1 point for every correct move.

1 point bonus for first correct continuation. 

Some amount of extra points for the entire continuation, depending on the difficulty

@TheCheeseDuck: 10

@alphaous: 10

@ant: 3

@Leothemaster3: 7

@ChessPawn921: 1

Avatar of Nimzowitsch

Nxe3+

Avatar of alphaous

Kf1 Nxe1 Kxe1 Rxd4

Avatar of Brooksvillechess

Nice! Out of curiosity, what would you say the rating level of this puzzle is?

Avatar of alphaous

1400

Avatar of hypercard

Yeah, not too hard. It will get harder though...

Avatar of Leothemaster3

Now we can't get points anymore?

Jk Jk

Avatar of hypercard

Yeah. The next one is a little harder, from a game that @vaporwave378 sent me.

Find the best continuation for White (3 moves). Send me the answer in chat.

1 point for each correct move, 1 extra point for getting the entire continuation

Avatar of hypercard

Please send your answer in chat

Avatar of Leothemaster3

Which chat?

Avatar of alphaous

A personal chat with @hypercard

Avatar of hypercard

Private chat. But yes, the first move is right. Rxb6 is not exactly the most challenging continuation, but that is what was played in the game.

Avatar of hypercard

alphaous found the rest of the continuation. but apparently, there might actuall y be more than 3 moves

Avatar of alphaous

So 17.Ncd5 Rxb6 18.Nxe7+ Re8 19. Nxe7+ Rxe7 20. Qxd6 Qe5

 

Avatar of alphaous

But it's still complex

Avatar of hypercard

Me and @ant have been analyzing the position. After 20...Qe5, we think that 21. Qxe5 Bxe5 22. Na4 will be better for White - since they are up two pawns.

Avatar of alphaous

Ys, probably, although White has to untangle.

Avatar of hypercard

Right. The computer tells me it is +1.7 for White, so Black has a little bit of compensation (0.3), bu not enough

Avatar of hypercard

I'll give two points to the first submission, b/c the response for Black was not the most accurate, although it was played in the game

Avatar of Leothemaster3

Who's leothechessmaster?