White to move
posted by Blue Devil Knight at 9/18/2007 11:32:00 AM
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3 Comments:
Nice problem. I think the answer is...
1.Bxc6! If Black doesn't capture the bishop immediately, then it will retreat, and White will simply be up a piece. So let us look at the recaptures.
1...dxc6 2.Nxc6 is mate, whereas
1...Qxc6 just throws away the queen
so that leaves
1...bxc6 and now White has the killer shot
2.Bg5+! What can Black try?
2...Qxg5 3.Nxc6 is mate, while
2...f6 3.Ne6+ and the Black queen drops
2...Qxe7 ditto
and that leaves us with
2...Be7 3.Bxe7+ Qxe7 4.Nxc6+ which is a massacre.
Anonymous: I hadn't even considered the 2...Be7 move from black. Fantastic analysis.
This is a problem in Phase 5 of Chess Tactics for Beginners.
It's exercise 1257.
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