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Say What?

Advanced Problem - White To Play (1355)

How does White win this game? If will be sufficient to show how White can queen a pawn and also prevent Black from queening his.

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Greetings From the IDF #1

Greetings From the IDF #2

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Problem Solutions

Beginner Problem - Black To Play

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1... Ne5+
2.fxe5 h5#

Intermediate Problem - White To Play

r1b2rk1/1p2q1P1/p2p1p2/3p3Q/8/2PBP3/PP1K3P/R6R w - - 0 1

1.Qh7+ Kf7
2.g8=N+!

Hee hee hee.

2...Ke6
3.Qxe7#

Or if 2...Ke8 then 3. Qxe7#

Advanced Problem - White To Play

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The key to this position is seeing that Black is pretty much in zugzwang, therefore it is to White's advantage to force Black to move

1. Kh1!

Best move to take advantage of Black's zugzwang. Not 1.Kh3 because White will not win the pawn race: 1...Kf3 2.e5 fxe5 3.g5 e4 4.g6 e3 5.g7 e2 6.g8=Q e1=Q draw.

1...Kf1

If 1...Kg3 then White wins because he will queen with check: 2.e5 fxe5 3.g5 e4 4.g6 e3 5.g7 e2
6.g8=Q+ and he'll be able to pick off the pawn, for example: 6...Kf2 7.Qa2 Kf3 8.Qb3+ Kf2 9.Qc2 Kf3 10. Qd3+ Kf2 11.Qd2 Kf3 12.Qe1 and wins.

Or if 1...Ke3 2. e5 fxe5 and Black's king is now fatally blocking his own pawn.

2.e5 fxe5
3.g5 e4
4.g6 e3
5.g7 e2
6.g8=Q e1=Q
7.Qg2#

Hope to see you all next week!

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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 paste it into your chess app.

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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.

posted by OregonMuse at 05:25 PM

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