Talent test puzzle

Originally posted by iamatiger
But instead of 7... c1, can't blacks queen shuttle up and down the a column, keeping a diagonal attack on white's queen while white's queen is on row 8 - with QxQ = stalemate? I think it has to be specifically 7 Qe8

7 Qe8 Qa4
8 Qe5+ Ka8
9 Qh8
Now if black's queen moves to a1, white can take it - crucially with check, if black tries Qf4 white ha ...[text shortened]...

7........ Qc1/c3
8. Kd7+ (BTW any specific algebraic symbols for a check like this?)
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well done

Hiya,

I think it has to be

7.Qg8 Qa2 first, then
8.Qe8 Qa4 etc,

the immediate Qe8 is met by Qg7 preventing the discovered check 🙂

Originally posted by drumfish
Hiya,

I think it has to be

7.Qg8 Qa2 first, then
8.Qe8 Qa4 etc,

the immediate Qe8 is met by Qg7 preventing the discovered check 🙂

Cool - This puzzle has a lot of catches, good joint effort this!

so if somebody solved this without moving pieces under 10 minutes, he should be very proud.

and Qg8 indeed wins and is best.

Originally posted by Jusuh
[fen]3K4/kp6/p7/1P6/8/8/7P/8 w - - 0 1[/fen]

white to play

i guess some of you have seen this before. if you have, dont post any solutions.

and try to solve this on your own...
EDIT: by the way. it took over 2 minutes for Kasparov to solve this.

i dont really know notations so i'll try. white pawn on the left take black pawn, black takes white pawn back. white pawn on the far right move down the board and beat the black pawn to a queen. if black king tries to cut of white pawn, white king can protect the white pawn cause it will get there before black king.

Originally posted by Jusuh
so if somebody solved this without moving pieces under 10 minutes, he should be very proud.

and Qg8 indeed wins and is best.

i solved it in like fifteen seconds, well that is if i solved it right anyways.

Originally posted by red king richie
i solved it in like fifteen seconds, well that is if i solved it right anyways.

No, you got it wrong.

simple move the pawn on sqaure A 2 to A 8 to get a queen