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justice_avocado
justice_avocado
Jun 29, 2008
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#1

here's a position my friend EbonyKing and i were musing over. is there a way for white to use his newly created queen to capture black's final pawn without being caught herself?
 
or must white promote another pawn and use the current queen to take the black pawn?
 
your life depends on your answer.
 

Loomis
Loomis
Jun 29, 2008
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#2
White can play Qg2 and then walk over with the king and capture the pawn. You should look up wins/draws with Q vs P on the seventh. Sometimes it's a win and sometimes it's a draw!
Barben
Barben
Jun 29, 2008
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#3

If you get your king to attack the pawn, then you can safely take it with the queen.


littleman
littleman
Jun 29, 2008
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#4
Is this a puzzle or a current game? hahahaha
Monicker
Monicker
Jun 29, 2008
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#5

Its a current game, but he already took the pawn with the queen.

 

http://www.chess.com/echess/game.html?id=7532799 


justice_avocado
justice_avocado
Jun 29, 2008
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#6

i mean, i decided to take the slow route (sacrifice the queen capturing the pawn, promote another queen), but we were just curious if there was a faster way.

thanks for all the comments!


Baseballfan
Baseballfan
Jun 29, 2008
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#7
For everyone's info., the game is over. Justice... FWIW, I let Crafty (a decent chess engine) run this position for a while, it seems to think that b5 is hands down the best move in this position, and has white up by about 22 pawns.
Monicker
Monicker
Jun 29, 2008
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#8

On my quad core linux desktop, Crafty with endgame tablebases sees a mate in 8 moves.

 

15    50.96  Mat08   1. b5 Ke3 2. b6 Kf2 3. b7 g2 4. b8=Q g1=Q 5. Qf4+ Ke1 6. Qae4+ Kd1 7. Qc1+  Kxc1 8.Qc2#


justice_avocado
justice_avocado
Jun 29, 2008
0
#9

wow.

well, i guess that answers that question.

thanks!