Friday, May 22, 2009

Chess motifs / Candidate Moves

Two simple puzzles to solve today, where Black had a winning continuation -against your author.

Tactics comes down to identifying the motif and review all possible moves (aka candidate moves). The rest is simple, at least in today's puzzles !



I-Black to play and win





II-Black to play and win


3 comments:

Anonymous said...

the first one is easy: 1.Qd1+!, if
2. Rxd1 then R(any of them)xc3#; if 2.Ka3 then Qa4#; if 2.Rc2 then Qxd3 winning a piece; if 2.Qc2 then Rxc2 and if 3.Rxd1 then R (any)xc3#

Anonymous said...

I forgot: the motiff of the fisrt puzzle is removing defender; the second one is trapping piece:
1..Bh3, 2.Qh1 (forced), Nf4 (threatning Bg2) and now if 3.gxf4 then Qg4+ with mate on the next move; if 3. Nh4 (to defend g2) then Bxh4 with the threat Bg2 that cannot be defended

chess_planet said...

Congratulations !
Perfect answers for each puzzle.