Cool little combo

I played blitz game today and reached this position as white. My opponent just pinned my knight with 1...Rg8 and had a solid looking position, a lot of his pieces near the king to protected so I was worried for a second. But white is completly winning. Simple unpinning with tempo (check) 2. Qg4+ does the trick. Of course 2...Kd8 is instant support mate in one so 2...Kb8 is the best but fails too due to royal knight fork, winning the queen for free.

Well, that combo is not special at all, but what I find interesting is that all black pieces except the h8 rook cannot protect the king by standing in front to him because ALL of them are locked on black squares, and Queen just attacked light diagonal. (well, rook on h8 is on black to. 😛)

Black king will fall soon just because his pieces can not move from black squares. Ironic one...

EDIT: Sorry, one piece (black e8 rook) is on light square and can always try sexy looking 2...Re6 move 🙂

2...Re6 fails to 2.Qxe6+ with mate to follow.

2...Kd8 leads to the support mate you mentioned while
2...Kb8 leads to a back rank mate with the Q.

Nice little combo.

Originally posted by nator78
2...Kb8 leads to a back rank mate with the Q.

Originally posted by ivan2908
[fen]2k1rbnr/ppp3pp/2n5/2q1N3/8/1P1P4/PBPKQ2P/RN5R w - - 0 14[/fen]

I played blitz game today and reached this position as white. My opponent just pinned my knight with 1...Rg8 and had a solid looking position, a lot of his pieces near the king to protected so I was worried for a second. But white is completly winning. Simple unpinning with tempo (check) ...[text shortened]... ry, one piece (black e8 rook) is on light square and can always try sexy looking 2...Re6 move 🙂

Originally posted by SwissGambit
Huh?

Originally posted by nator78
1.Qg4+ Re6
2.Qxe6+ Kb8
3.Qe8+

And the only way to stop mate is to block with the knight, which is then taken for mate.

Thought that might have been the case. Happens to the best.