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White to move and win (difficult) - Alexey Troitsky, 1897 (feddit.de)

submitted 1 year ago by Bonifratz@feddit.de to c/chess@lemmy.ml

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[–] Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

Bc6 Rb1+
Ke2 Rxh1

3.Bg2+ Kxg2

4.Nf4+ Kg1

5.Ke1 G2

6.Ne2#

Edit K for knight to N

[–] Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone 4 points 1 year ago

It appears I'm an idiot too

I'm very new to chess annotation and i keep using k for knight and king.

[–] apotheotic@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think it's meant to be Ke1 G2 as Ne1 is an illegal move but that's just a notation issue

[–] Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah it was very late i was meant to be asleep not playing chess puzzles knight starts with a k haha

[–] Bonifratz@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nicely done! You solved the main (study) line. There's other lines where Black actually holds out longer, but they're much simpler to calculate.

[–] wahming@monyet.cc 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What happens if black declines the queen? Too lazy to calculate it out at this point

[–] Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone 2 points 1 year ago

Anything it seems. But I'm probably missing a lot

[–] wahming@monyet.cc 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It seems to be open ended if black doesn't take queen, though

[–] Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Bishop moves to g2 checkmate of it doesn't check the king.

If it does then the king walks back towards the rook. Until it takes it or the rook doesn't check the king ending the game

[–] wahming@monyet.cc 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

What about Rb2, Kd3, Pg2?

[–] Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It gets all very messy if black doesn't take the bate it seems

[–] Bonifratz@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

In what position? After 1. Bc6 Rb1+ 2. Ke2 Rb2+ 3. Kd3 Black doesn't have anything but spite checks. And if ...g2, White can now safely go Qc1 with quick checkmate to follow via Qh6+ (since g2 is covered by the bishop).

[–] Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone 2 points 1 year ago

What's interesting is if black moves to Rf4 and ignores the queen i see how it gets very open ended

[–] Taako_Tuesday@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

After 4. Nf4+, wouldn't it be better for the king to go to f3? Or am I overlooking something obvious

Edit: answered my own question, white king covers f3 after moving to e2, forgot about that