Tactics Time Chess Newsletter: Just Feels Great
Published: Tue, 02/25/14
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his position was sent to my friend Jules Carter, who posted on facebook "Is
this Tactics Time 3 worthy? Today was the New Mexico G/15 Championships
and this was my last round. Can't remember my opponent's name but I'll
get that info once the tourney results are submitted".
In the position on the right it is Black to move.
Answer below.
Some news and notes:
Here is the complete game [Site "Main Library, Downtown Albuquerque"] [Date "2014.02.22"] [Round "7"] [White "NN"] [Black "Carter, Jules"] [Result "0-1"] [BlackElo "1352"] [Annotator "Brennan,Tim"] [SetUp "1"] [FEN "Q7/6kp/3p2p1/2q1p1b1/1pBr3r/1P1P1P2/2P3PP/R3R2K b - - 0 1"] [PlyCount "9"] 1... Rxh2+ $3 {40} 2. Kxh2 {66} (2. Kg1 Rh1+ {4} (2... Rdh4+ 3. Kf1 Rh1+ 4. Ke2 Qe3+ 5. Kd1 Rxe1# (5... Qxe1#) (5... Qd2#)) 3. Kf2 {2} (3. Kxh1 Rh4#) 3... Rg4+ {5} 4. d4 {3} (4. Ke2 Qe3+ 5. Kd1 Rxe1#) 4... Qxd4+ {1} 5. Re3 {1} Qxe3# {0}) 2... Rh4+ {5} 3. Kg3 {12} Bf4+ $3 {23} 4. Kxh4 {2} Qf2+ {2} 5. Kg4 {15} (5. Kh3 Qg3#) (5. g3 Qxg3#) 5... Qg3# {0} 0-1 You can play through this game here:
Answer:
1...Rxh2+!! 2.Kxh2 Rh4+ 3.Kg3 Bf4+!! 4.Kxh4 Qf2+ 5.Kg4 Qg3# 2.Kg1 Rh1+ 3.Kf2 Rg4+ 4.d4 Qxd4+ 5.Ke2 Rxg2# There are some other variations that work as well. If you click on the link above, I give most of the main variations, all of which lead to mate.
Happy Tactics!
Your Friend,
P.S. Had fun playing chess last weekend at Jeff Baffo's "Chess Flash Mob" at Wendy's in the Denver Tech Center. Here is a picture of my buddy Francisco playing Jeff taken by Rob Hartelt. Francisco is famous for his fishing pole win over Walter Browne in a simul in Reno a few years ago. Brian Wall calls him a "living legend" :)
Brian Wall and Chris Peterson made some great chess videos about the Walter Browne Fishing pole game, which you can see here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exGSXjvKej0 (Part 1) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgqVkqrNH_4 (Part 2) Like Tactics Time on Facebook.
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