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Playing Chess with the Devil (part 2)

Playing Chess with the Devil (part 2)

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A nearly true story about me playing Chess (and Scrabble) with the devil.

An uncanny picture of Karpov giving a simultaneous display.

A tactic I pulled off in a RHP game leads to a mini RHP quiz.

A blank chessboard question (which I got years ago from a non-chess magazine.)

A study by Liburkin and Bondarenko White to play and win.



Blog Post 447

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@greenpawn34

Nf4...

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I was thinking Ne3

Actually scrap that, I was getting confused with the King on a1 🙂. Nh4 with the intention of sacrificing it for the h pawn. Play for the end game!?

My move thought:

Nh4 kg1, Nf3+ Kg2, Nxh2 Kxh2
Surely this is just winning for white with black eventually requiring to sacrifice his bishops and white's king in a better position to get to pawns quicker.

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Note that, in the study, black can draw by doing Bb8 instead of Ke4. White will then have to spend an extra tempo to get the bishop, and the black king can go straight through e5.

White can still win, though, by

going through c8 rather than c6
.

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Also has been pointed out on the blog.

blainemn - flore RHP 2019



It went 29.Qd7+ Nxd7 30. Rh1-h7 mate. But Black has better.

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@greenpawn34 said
Also has been pointed out on the blog.

blainemn - flore RHP 2019

[fen] r4n1R/1p4k1/1qp3p1/p5P1/6Q1/2p1Pr2/PPP5/2K4R w - - 0 28 [/fen]

It went 29.Qd7+ Nxd7 30. Rh1-h7 mate. But Black has better.
Hi GP, I enjoyed the blog, but messed up with the "count the 5s" problem, I just numbered the squares a1 - h8 and wondered what was hard about finding eight 5s...

Regarding this, what I think is:
29. Qd7+ Rf7 30. R1h7+ Nxh7 31. Rxh7+ Kxh7 32. Qxf7+ Kh8 33. Qf6+ Kg8 34. Qxg6+ Kf8 35. Qf6+ Ke8 36. Qxc3 as black is threatening mate and there is no perpetual as black can escape the checks on a7. So white is left hoping for a miracle pawn promotion.

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Hi DeepThought,

Yes I missed declining the Queens sac. I told my D.B. to search for...


Quite a few appeared and was happy to see a 2019 game pop up
so just grabbed it. I like to use if I can fairly recent R.H.P. games.

I tell the kids I teach one of the first things to look at when someone
sacs a piece at you is; '....what happens if I don't take it.' ( OOPS! )
but practising what I preach has never been one of my game strong points.

Glad to see people are paying attention and keeping an eye on me. 😉

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