Only one starting move keeps the winning chances intact...
We are just one step away from promoting but the pawn is pinned and we need to protect ourselves from letting black get the chance to draw thu perpetual checks.
Only one starting move from white allows us to play for a win here, which one?
This study was composed by Louis van Vliet in 1888.
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I never thought about sacrificing the Queen, and it happens on 4 different squares. Beautifull!
Excellent puzzle. I didn't see the brilliant queen sacrifice plan. I did get the h2 sac scam once it got that far. These puzzles are sometimes just beyond my level.
A few times you are saying "scam sacrifice" when it should be "sham sacrifice" -- Rudolf Spielmann's term for cases when full material compensation or mate can be easily calculated.
@Chess-strategy
Ай бұрын
Oh, need to think of that in the future. Probably I used the wrong term even if I know it is called sham sacrifice when I think of it.
Excellent as always... You are really good. Thank you very much for sharing this puzzle and making tactical preparation. God bless you
Artistic and original, very beatiful!
I got it!!! Nice example!!
I thought it was Qd3. Tough one.
Thank you for your enjoyable endgame chess studies. I'm trying to find different openings.(ofc I'll search for them if i have time)
Getting queen to C8 and then C7 is the way to go. qa3, qa7, qb8, qc8,qc7 and b8q
Deep end game puzzle. Thank you instructive.
Good one again!
This is very famous. I admire the study composer which composed it, because this is a very, very old chess study.
Waaaaaay above my pay grade!
Qe6 calling it 20 seconds in
@SHARKNADO_2006
Ай бұрын
I was wrong
promote pawn to knight
@user-bj5uh3rh5g
5 күн бұрын
he would be in check then so it doesn't work
@circuitbuilder5551
5 күн бұрын
@@user-bj5uh3rh5g or right... didn't see that
WOOOoooow
White queen to D3 wins!
@dagg310
Ай бұрын
how ?
@michaelwolfe9167
9 күн бұрын
@@dagg310 Black's king goes a5 or b4. White goes Qd8 check. Wherever black goes with his king, white goes Qc8, and should be up a queen in a turn or 2.
Why doesn't Qd3 win?
@gaopinghu7332
5 күн бұрын
It doesn't achieve anything. Check, but nothing else afterwards.
@KrailFrost
22 сағат бұрын
@@gaopinghu7332 king has to move to a5 or b6 (if queen blocks we trade), then white qd8(check), if black queen moves promote. if king moves then white qc8. from there you exchange queens or promote depending on black's move.