[puzzle] What's white's best move?
[puzzle] What's white's best move?
Answer
- Nf6+!!
It's checkmate in 2 in one of two ways.
47...Qxf6
48. Qg4#
47...Kh4
48. Qh3#
https://www.chess.com/analysis/game/live/97535431411?tab=analysis
It's a speed chess game I just watched. Let me know if I screwed this up. I can't copy and paste from the site.
I was so fixated on how black was going to win - I didn't see the danger at all. I only knew black was toast due to the evaluation bar suddenly indicating mate in 2.
[Edit - I fixed a mistake]
White should surrender and read settlers
I've been studying anarchist. White should fein surrender, throwing sand in black's face, then 10 pawn goto b251
I was going to say white should embrace revolutionary defeatism and move their bishop to e6
10 pawn goto b251
That is fiendishly hard to refute.
answer errata
47...Qh4 48. Qh3#
assume you mean 47 king to h4, not queen
Oops. Thanks. I wish I could copy and paste. My transcription skills are shit.
I got it wrong, but this was fun, thanks!
hell yeah, I got it right.
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I wanted to make Nh6 work but it just doesn't. you just get mated first. you have to clear a path for the queen to deliver mate while checking so I looked at Nf6+ next.
I started down your first path, too.
G4-g6 check
Oops I meant f6
White only has three pawn moves. After any of them - the bishop on f1 is hanging which means it's unprotected so black can take the bishop with Rxf1.
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f4. Black can take the knight with Qxg4.
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h3.
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h4. This attacks the Q on g5. But black can take the pawn with Qxh4.
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Huh interesting. The move I'd have made would've been Queen to B5. I am bad at chess and would lose.
move the horsey
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did it myself in my head
nf6+ qxf6 qh3+ kg5 qg4#nf6+ qxf6 qg4#
Fuck chess. I fucking hate chess