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Saturday Afternoon Chess/Open Thread 12-03-2016
“You cannot play at Chess if you are kind-hearted”
Hint: Black mates in 2 4k3/3p1pp1/p2Pp3/1pr2n2/5P2/1PP2qPK/P2B4/5RQ1 b - - 0 1 Problem 2 - White To Play (64) Hint: White mates in 3 The solution has multiple paths. Fill out the decision tree as much as you can. 5b1k/5n2/4P1K1/6B1/8/8/8/8 w - - 0 1
The word on the recently concluded World Championship chess match between Magnus Carlsen and Sergey Karjakin is that the games were monumentally dull. And the match itself was monumentally dull. Out of the 12 scheduled games, each player won a game and the rest were drawn. Things didn't get interesting until the tie breaking round. The tie-break time controls are considerably faster than the standard games, which allows players 100 minutes to make 40 moves, then 50 for the next 20.
3.7 Tie-breaks So each player has 25 minutes, plus whatever 10-second move increments he can rack up, to complete the ENTIRE GAME. This can make for more interesting, exciting chess as the probability of inexact play from one player (or both) goes up considerably. Only then are crowd-pleasing combinations possible. For example: Karjakin 2R5/4bppk/1p1p4/5R1P/4PQ2/5P2/r4q1P/7K w - - 0 50 Carlsen After 49...Kh7 This is the position after Karjakin's 49th move. See if you can find the CRUSHING combination Carlsen uncorked to win the game and retain his title. One more thing. Karjakin wasn't forced to move Kh7. Instead, he could have dropped his bishop back to block, like this: Karjakin 2R2bk1/5pp1/1p1p4/5R1P/4PQ2/5P2/r4q1P/7K w - - 0 50 Carlsen After 49...Bf8 So, how might Carlsen have won the game if Karjakin had made this move instead?
5k2/5p2/2K2P2/p3Q3/1q5p/1P4p1/P7/5n2 w - - 0 1
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4k3/3p1pp1/p2Pp3/1pr2n2/5P2/1PP2qPK/P2B4/5RQ1 b - - 0 1 1...Ne3! And now it's impossible to defend against Rh5#, for example: 2.Bxe3 Rh5# -or- 2.Qxe3 Rh5# -or- 2.Rxf3 Rh5# Either the knight or the queen is sufficient to keep the White king from escaping. White can capture one or the other, but not both. Problem 2 - White To Play 5b1k/5n2/4P1K1/6B1/8/8/8/8 w - - 0 1 There are basically two major branches on this decision tree. White's first move can either be 1.Bf6+ or 1.exf7+. 1.Bf6+ Bg7 (not 1...Kg8 2.exf7#) The second branch is: 1.exf7 Bh6 Or, instead of 1...Bh6, Black can play 1...Bg7, in which case 2.Bf6 Bxf6
Karjakin 2R5/4bppk/1p1p4/5R1P/4PQ2/5P2/r4q1P/7K w - - 0 50 Carlsen After 49...Kh7 So, Carlson's killer combination starts with: 50.Qh6! At this point, Karjakin resigned, and the match was over. But play might have continued 50...Kxh6 or, alternately: 50...gxh6 Either way, Karjakin's goose was cooked in 2. A nifty little combo by Carlsen. When I first saw this game, and how it ended, I wondered about why Karjakin played 49...Kh7, because it seemed like an obvious loser to me. If I were confronted with this position in one of my games, I most likely would've gone with 50...Bf8. Why? Because just *looks* like a better move to me. Of course, Karjakin didn't get to within a hair's breadth of the world championship by listening to me tell him how to play the game, so what do I know? Karjakin 2R2bk1/5pp1/1p1p4/5R1P/4PQ2/5P2/r4q1P/7K w - - 0 50 Carlsen After 49...Bf8 As it turns out, if Karjakin had chosen 49...Bf8, Carlsen could have mated him in 7: 50.Rxf8+ Kxf8 if 51...Kg8, then 52.Rf8+ Kh7 53.Qf5+ Kh6 (53...g6 54.Qxg6#) 54.Qg6# 52.Rf8+ Kd7 I'm guessing Karjakin most likely saw this line and rejected it. But the path he chose instead was brutally short. This line seems to have more "play" in it, even though it's ultimately a loser. And if you feed this position to your chess app and have it play Black, this is the line it will choose.
5k2/5p2/2K2P2/p3Q3/1q5p/1P4p1/P7/5n2 w - - 0 1 The Black queen is precariously placed. It has to protect against White's queen delivering mate by moving to b8. So all White has to do is give it a little nudge. 1.a3! Qxb3 The best of a bad lot. If 1...Qxa3 then 2.Qb8# or if 1...Qd2 then 2.Qb8+ Qd8 3.Qxd8# But White can't be stopped. 2.Qc5+ Kg8 Not 2...Ke8? 3.Qe7# 3.Qg5+ Kf8 (or 3...Kh8 4.Qg7#) An alternate path to mate instead of 4.Qg7+ is 4.Qh6+ Ke8 See you all next week! ___________ Note: that cryptic line of letters and numbers you see underneath each board diagram is a representation of the position in what is known as "Forsyth-Edwards Notation", or F.E.N. It's actually readable by humans. Most computer applications nowadays can read FEN, so those of you who may want to study the position, you can copy the line of FEN and paste into your chess app and it should automatically recreate the position on its display board. Or, Windows users can just "triple click" on it and the entire line will be highlighted so you can copy and past it into your chess app. ___________ So that about wraps it up for this week. Chess thread tips, suggestions, bribes, rumors, threats, and insults may be sent to my yahoo address: OregonMuse little-a-in-a-circle yahoo dott com. | Recent Comments
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