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Chessprint December 28, 2003  White to move and win - Find the Solution
Position of the Week: Solution
This position, taken from Spielmann-Landau Match 1933, starts off with a pair of clearance sacrifices. The thicket of variations is too large to list all of here; enjoy crawling through the rest of the bramble on your own, but give yourself full credit for finding the first two moves for White in this position! 1.Rxe4 dxe4 [ The alternative would be to simply accept the loss of the piece and play... 1...Bd7 after which 2.Nxc6+ Bxc6 3.bxc6 Bxc3 4.Bf4 gxf4 5.Rxf4 Bf6 6.Rxf6 Ke8 ( 6...exf6 7.Qxd5+ and now 7...Ke8 or 7...Qd6 are both mate in three. 7...Kc8 8.Qe6+ Kb8 9.Rb1+ Qb6 And from this position White has his choice of three different mates-in-four. Enjoy finding each of them!) 7.Re1 Rb8 ( 7...Rxf6 8.Qxf6 e5 9.Qh8+ Kf7 10.Qh7+ Kf6) 8.c4 Rxf6 9.Qxf6 believe it or not Black's best now is 9...Rb1 10.Qg6+] 2.Bxg5 [ The actual game continuation was 2.Bf4 Bxe5 ( Better was 2...Bd7 ) 3.Bxe5 Qd7 4.Rd1 cxb5 Better moves for White now include 5.Rd5, 5.Bg7, and 5.c6.] 5.Rxd7+ Bxd7 6.Qxh6 Rg8 7.c6 ( Evan stronger was 7.Nd5 ; or 7.Nxb5 ) 7...Be8 8.Nxb5 Black resigns.] 2...Bxe5 [ 2...Bd7 3.Rd1 Bxe5 4.bxc6 Bxh2+ 5.Kf1 Bd6 6.Rxd6 Qxc6 7.Qxe7+] 3.Rd1+ Bd7 4.bxc6 Bxh2+ 5.Kh1 Bd6 6.Rxd6 Qxc6 7.Qxe7+ Kc8 And White's winning so big, he can choose the means of Black's execution: Nd5, Rxc6+, and Qxf8+ seem to win the biggest, but almost everything works for White in this position. [ 7...Kc7 8.Rxc6+ Kxc6 9.Qd6+ Kb7 10.Qxd7+ Kb8 11.c6] 8.Nd5 Rf7 9.Rxc6+ Bxc6 10.Qe6+ Kb7 11.Qxf7+ Ka6 12.Nc7+ Kb7 [ 12...Ka5 13.Bd2+ Ka4 14.Qb3#] 13.Nxa8+ Ka6 Other moves lead to an even faster mate. 14.Qb3 Bxa8 15.Qa4+ Kb7 16.Qd7+ Ka6 Now both 17.a4 & 17.c4 lead to mate in three, and there's a plethora of mates in four or slower too.
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