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Saturday Afternoon Chess Thread 01-25-2020![]() GM Ju Wenjun (CHN)
Congratulations to Ju Wenjun for retaining her World Women's Championship title. This is actually a three-peat. For the country of China itself, it's a five-peat. The Chinese women basically own this title, having held it a total of 22 years since 1991. Moviegique will be along later with the movie thread. As always, the chess/dress pr0n thread is an open thread, so there is no such thing as an off-topic comment.
White can capture Black's rook for the win with this one surprising move! Hint: The first move is not a check ![]() 8/8/8/8/8/2Nk4/2r1N3/KB6 w - - 0 1
Goal: White can win a piece ![]() 6k1/pppr2pp/8/3bp3/8/8/PPP1BPPP/2KR4 w - - 0 1
OK, since this is a composition with a specific goal, I think it's OK to tell you what the goal is, which is that White can force a mate in 5. I think it's devlishly tricky, and I'm ashamed to tell you I had to have my chess app find the answer for me, because I completely whiffed on it. Maybe some of you will do better, I hope. Here are a couple of hints, but it's hard for me to tell how helpful they'll be: Hint 1: Underpromotion is not involved ![]() 8/8/8/8/8/Q7/4p3/5k1K w - - 0 1
![]() ![]() ![]() A Downton Abbey Garden Party? ![]() ![]() Greetings From Germany ![]() ![]() ___________ Problem Solutions Beginner Problem - White To Play ![]() 8/8/8/8/8/2Nk4/2r1N3/KB6 w - - 0 1 So the problem is to figure out how to wrest the rook away from Black and still have enough material to win the game. You just can't take it with the biahop, because you'll be left with only 2 knights, which is insufficient for checkmate. 1.Ne4 Now Black has to move his king, as the rook is pinned. 1...Kxe4 2.Bxc2+ and the B+N checkmate is difficult, but doable.
![]() 6k1/pppr2pp/8/3bp3/8/8/PPP1BPPP/2KR4 w - - 0 1 1.Bg4 Rd6 There are two other options: 1...Rd8 2. Rxd5 Rxd5 3. Be6+ Either one leads to a fork, as does the main line: 2.Rxd5 Rxd5 Black cannot escape the bishop fork.
![]() 8/8/8/8/8/Q7/4p3/5k1K w - - 0 1 Not sure if there's much explaining I can do. This is one of those problems whose solutions you just have to see. And, as I said, I didn't. So this is what my app told me. I found the other line starting with Black's 2nd move since it was my way of testing the app's solution, and it held up. 1.Qf8+! Ke1 Or 2...Kf1 3.Qf4+ Ke1 4.Qd4 Kf1 5.Qg1# 3.Qf4+ Ke1
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