Happy Friday – we’re back once again with another Puzzle just in time for the weekend.
Last week’s was a reasonably straightforward mating puzzle, albeit not necessarily entirely intuitive.
Panos was the first to respond with the correct answer – effectively a Queen sacrifice to force the mating sequence. Well done Panos!
This week sees us celebrating the outbreak of mad romanticism in the London 4 team last week, with a game from the archives featuring Capt. Evans.
Evans-McDonnell, London, 1829. Not the first recorded game with the Evans Gambit, but a win by the inventor.
White to move, answers in the comments please!
Bf8+, wins a queen for a rook and bishop and leaves the king in open play
Ah Bf6 is better
qc3 + does it I think
If king retreats queen sacrifice and then Bf6+ Qg7, Re8 mate
Kh6 losses too and Kg6 knight forks the queen
So many tactics somebody put me out of my misery
Qc3 blocked by bishop
Sticking with Bf8+
Qc3 if bishops blocks knight takes an leads to a discovered check
A discovered double check which forces king to g6 or g8 and then queen moves in to mate
Sorry for the repeated blogs….. got their in the end.
1. Qc3+
1… Kg6 2. Ne5 wins a queen
1… Kh6 2. Qxh8 wins a rook
1… Bd4 2. Qxd4 wins a bishop
1… Kg8 2. Qxh8+ Kxh8 3. Bf6+ anything 4. Re8#
Bb4 wins a piece cant be bothered calculating. 🙂
1. Re5 looks good, black has to play something like 1…h6. Then 2. Nc3 gets all his pieces in play and the win will come by osmosis.