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Last update: Friday June 3, 2005 9:44
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It's Black to play and win. Faint heart never won fair lady....
Solution:
13...Qxf3!!
An
interesting alternative is 13...Nxd4!? which leads to complications after 14
Qa4 Bf5! 15 Bxf5 Nxf3 16 Qxa5 Nd2+ 17 Kg1 Nb3 and Black is clearly better.
14 gxf3 Bh3+ 15 Kg1 Nxd4
Strangely it is this
fairly quiet move that proves decisive, it is not so much the threat of
...Nd4xb3 but ...Nd4xf3# that should concern White.
16 Qd1 Re1+! 17 Qxe1
17 Bf1 prolongs the game
one more move after 17...Rxf1+ 18 Qxf1 Nxf3#.
17...Nxf3#.
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Michael Franklin has been a top class player for many a year. Here, playing White, he demolishes Black's defences to win the 1976 Portsmouth Open with 6/6. How did he 'finish him off'?
Solution:
1 Bxf7! Rxf7 2 Qxd7! Qxd7
2...Rxd7 obviously fails to 3 Rf8#.
3 Rxf7
and Black must lose heavy material due
to the threats of Rf7xd7 and Rf7-f8#.
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White to play and mate in three.
This position occurred in Jorgensen vs. Sorensen 1945. Nothing unusual in that, you might say, until it's pointed out that the exact same position was described in al-Adli in a ninth century Arabian manuscript!
Solution: 1 Nh5+ Rxh5 2 Rxg6+ Kxg6 3 Re6#
