Bonifratz to [email protected] • 7 months agoWhite to move and win (difficult) - Alexey Troitsky, 1897feddit.deimagemessage-square64fedilinkarrow-up151arrow-down12
arrow-up149arrow-down1imageWhite to move and win (difficult) - Alexey Troitsky, 1897feddit.deBonifratz to [email protected] • 7 months agomessage-square64fedilink
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish5•edit-27 months agoPg2 Edit: Apparently I’m being downvoted by somebody who doesn’t understand white starts on row 1
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish2•edit-27 months agoQd3 Bg3 I think, followed by promotion
minus-squaredreadgoatlinkfedilink1•7 months agoI think the definitive solution was already found further down the thread, but I think this could still work Qd3 Bg3 Nf4 Kh4 … at that point it becomes a sloppy chase but White takes an indomitable lead, taking B and a pawn easily
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•7 months agoBg3 is a check, followed by black promoting their pawn to queen
minus-square@jafea7link3•7 months agoThat’s what I would have thought, leaves the King nowhere to go and there’s nothing to block/capture the Queen.
Queen H1 to F1?
Edit: I’m still an idiot.
Pg2
Edit: Apparently I’m being downvoted by somebody who doesn’t understand white starts on row 1
Qd3 Pg3 Qf5
Qd3 Bg3 I think, followed by promotion
I think the definitive solution was already found further down the thread, but I think this could still work
Qd3 Bg3 Nf4 Kh4 … at that point it becomes a sloppy chase but White takes an indomitable lead, taking B and a pawn easily
Bg3 is a check, followed by black promoting their pawn to queen
Oops, you’re right. I went kingblind
That’s what I would have thought, leaves the King nowhere to go and there’s nothing to block/capture the Queen.
Black is moving down, Pg2
Doh! My bad, 40+ years since I played.
I’ll shut up now 🤐
Pawn to G2?