Chess Puzzles by Grandmasters which contain actual positions from
over the board games played by Grandmastes.
Bacrot vs Pascal Stefanski, Belfort, 1992
Bacrot vs Lothar Vogt, Arosa, 1996
Fischer vs J Bennett, San Francisco, 1957
Fischer vs Luis Sanchez, Santiago, 1959
1st diag: Rxe4 as Rook cannot be retaken else the Black Queen is lost.
ReplyDelete2nd diag: I was thinking of Rf7 and trying to make it work until I finally saw Rg6 after a good 7 minutes or so. This was very hard to see, R+B for Q trade should be winning with the passed pawn and Black's king out in the open. Note that hxg6 invites Bd4+
3rd diag: Rd8+ (winning a piece)
4th diag: Bd2 winning a piece as Nc6 does not work (overloaded square e7)
Thank you for the puzzles!
Ooops.
ReplyDelete2nd diag: typo: I meant "Note that hxg6 invites Bc4+".
tanc (happyhippo) said...
ReplyDelete3rd diag: Rd8+ (winning a piece)
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--> Isn't that "piece" the queen?
Black's queen can't capture the rook on d8 as White will play QxB+ forcing mate on the next move. So Black's only way out of check is to play ...Kg7. Then White takes the queen and I don't see any way for Black to get back any more material after that. (If Black plays 2...RxB3, then white plays 3.Rxc3.) So White remains a queen up.
Or at least that's how it looks to me?
Best regards,
Hank
Hi Hank,
ReplyDeleteYes that piece being won indeed is a queen. :)
*wink*