Thirty-Second Chess Lesson Problem

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xenophon98

Fellow NESA Chess Lesson solvers,

      A new winner of KUDOS to be crowned with Problem #31!   He found right away what I did not.

      The answer is that, regrettably, I did not find a crushing tactical breakthrough in this position.  Instead of the pedestrian 20. exf5?, White wins immediately with 20. Rxh7+!!  After 20. … Kxh7 21. Rh1+ Kg6 the really hard move to find is 22. Qg1+!Qg5 23. Qxg5#.   Hashtag Black king dies.

      The new guy on the block is Daviderer from Chess Warriors of Light.   Congratulations, David; you are the new owner of the KUDOS, man!  Side Kudos also go to our ever persistent BSAeagle60.

      Chess Lesson #32 was submitted by my good pal its_only_me, who came up with a great finish in a Live game.  In the puzzle there are two questions.

(a)    The actual move 40. Qxd4?? was an immediately losing blunder.  Why?

(b)   What should White have played instead?

      Thanks to its_only_me for the puzzle.  Good luck!

Xenophon98

dirk-1966

Qxd4 is a bluder, black play Qg3+ ,Kh1,Rxh3+g2xh3,Rxh3++., maby can white play Rc2-c5

xenophon98

Hey Dirk,

    Right on both!  You get KUDOS, man.

Nick Cool

dirk-1966

yes,thanks my friend👍🎈🎈🎈🎉

xenophon98

Great job, brother. :-)

Nick