Teams puzzle [#132]

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Avatar of liquid-sun

Red to move.

Difficulty: Hard

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[Variant "Teams"]
[RuleVariants "EnPassant"]
[CurrentMove "0"]

Avatar of MisterWish

This looks familiar tongue.png Does red have a good response here?

Avatar of liquid-sun
MisterWish wrote:

This looks familiar Does red have a good response here?

 

I think so! Although, I don't think it's immediately obvious.

Avatar of LazyImp

Lots of candidates (Qf10, Qf9, Qg4, Qg3, Qf7) but none seem to fully save ry.  Bg just seem to have way too many easy defensive resources. A couple lines:

1. Qf7 Ni7 Nhj10 Rxk1

1. Qf7 c10 Nij10 (1.y Nhj10 Rxk1) kxj10 

1. Qf10 c10 Nxk11 Rkxk11

1. Qg3 Nh4 Nhj10 Rxk1

1. Qf9 c10 Bxl8 7xl8 2. Nxk4 cxd11 

1. Qg4 Qh9

Personally, as ry the line I would go for is something like 1. Qf7 Ni7 d9 Rxk1 2. 0-0-0 and try to apply some pressure on blue as at least some compensation for the rook. Green is largely inactive and ry are pretty safe, so there are still some chances.

Avatar of liquid-sun

I guess I was too quick to make this puzzle.

Avatar of JCrossover_14

I.... don't really see anything clearly winning for ry here. or anything that doesn't lose