Great back rank weakness study!

Another study from Pachman's chapter on the use of rooks... here's a hint: exploit the back rank weakness... and just keep exploiting!

I have never fully understood this full sequence, check out Freddie Winter's ideas:

http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/extra/adamstorre.html

Wow heinzie, you're two for two blowing up my Pachman puzzle posts! Anyway, I had no idea that puzzle was from a game, let alone a famous and disputed one... I thought Pachman composed it... it sure plays composed, doesn't it?  Well thanks for showing me that link... I don't have time to read it all carefully now, but I'll go through it tonight.

Freaking Pachman (at least in the Alan Russell translation/abridgement) doesn't source this diagram and notes at all... which leaves him plaigarizing Torre, whether Torre composed it or not.

a4 sets up the Queen for the Re4 attack.

This rerminds a lot of the famous Adams-Torre, which by the way turned out to be a spurious game...

Both of white's rooks are attacking the e8 square, but only one of black's pieces are defending it (excluding the queen).  a4 kicks the queen out of the b5 square and if they want to stay on that same diagonal, they have to capture because white's pawn and queen are defending the c6 and d7 squares.

yes, check out heinzie's link in post #2... I'm late to this party apparently... it's all new to me.

This particular puzzle features in one of Chess.com's video lectures- though which one, I simply cannot recall.

You know come to think of it this puzzle is quite timely -- Shulman's knockout of Nakamura was on this very theme.

My favourite backrank exploit must be Mikenas-Bronstein (1962) from an apparently quiet position:

Good I guess; didn't really get any of it, guess I just gotta study it more, thanks heinze for that link hopefully it'll fill me in

And then there's this one:

White evidently was already counting on celebrating his victory, when suddenly a "natural disaster' struck.(Tal, about a game played in Yugoslavia 1949)

I thought I answered your question (post #5) did you not see it, or was it not informative? I can go into more detail... White is systematically depriving the Q of the squares a4; b5; c6; d7; with attacks on the Queen that keep the initiative firmly in White's forcing grip -- a2-a4 brings the Q to a4 which allows Re2-e4 -- depriving the Queen of the a4 square permanently ... Qxb7 is the coup de grace, the Black queen cannot remain on the critical diagonal and Black must resign.

Oh that's quite droll. (The move, more than the quip)