Sunday, June 27, 2010

Attacking tactics ( level=easy)

To continue with the theme Queen+Knight.

White to play and win ( Position I)

White to play and win ( position II)


2 comments:

Anonymous said...

As far as I can see, these two positions are part of the same game, so I will start with Position II:
1. Rc7! Nd7 (if 1..Qxc7 2. Qxg6+ Kh8 3. Qxe8+ Kh7 4. Nxe6 +-)
2. Rxd7! Qxd7
3. Qxg6+ Kh8
4. Nh5! Rg8 (position I)
5. Qxg8+ Kxg8
6. Nf6+ and 7. Nxd7

chess_planet said...

I am 100% impressed !!
The two positions come indeed from the same game ( I played with White).

1Rc7! is the right move. After 1..Nd7, I should have exchanged the queens and captured the knight.
I did play 2 Rd7 (?) and after 4 Nh5! my opponent should have played 4..Rf8=

Instead, 4..Rg8? lets the simple but efficient 5Qg8+! and the following fork as the previous anonymous commenter noted.

Congrats for finding the key wining moves and linking the 2 positions !!