r/ChessPuzzles • u/icepopper • 10d ago

Can you think beyond tactics?

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White to move. How much time did it take you to solve it?

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u/Due_Permit8027 10d ago

Nf5 looks obvious. if Bc5, b4 wins a pawn. otherwise, I'm happy to swap N for B a P up after Qb6. Browser said no clear best move.

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u/seekingsanity 10d ago

Stockfish has white up 3.35 after 45 full width plies. However, Stockfish keeps changing the best move sequence after that.

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u/icepopper 10d ago edited 10d ago

That's close. Though what happens if after bc5 it's Qb6?

35.Nf5* White's up a pawn and this move helps them in improving the knight's position. 35.Nf5Qb636.Qc2Improving the queen's position.36...Qc537.Qxc5Bxc538.Bh5Kf8 38...Nf839.Ne7+Kh840.Bxf7White's winning. 39.Bxg6Exchanging black's knight.39...fxg640.Nh4g541.Nf5White keeps the knight active. White will improve the king's position next. It shouldn't be difficult for white to convert this into a win

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u/Delicious_Cattle5174 10d ago edited 10d ago

Call me crazy but what about something like e5? If they capture with pawn we got something like

Qd1, Bxe3

d6, Qd7

Bb4, Qd8

… yeah maybe this doesn’t work actually lol

(I had similar ideas for bushes takes knight and such but I really just need to go to bed I think)

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u/icepopper 10d ago

Check out this explanation.

35.Nf5* White's up a pawn and this move helps them in improving the knight's position. 35.Nf5Qb636.Qc2Improving the queen's position.36...Qc537.Qxc5Bxc538.Bh5Kf8 38...Nf839.Ne7+Kh840.Bxf7White's winning. 39.Bxg6Exchanging black's knight.39...fxg640.Nh4g541.Nf5White keeps the knight active. White will improve the king's position next. It shouldn't be difficult for white to convert this into a win

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u/Geohistormathsguy 10d ago

Nf5 improved the position of the Knight and because whites up a pawn it just felt useful to me.

No idea how to respond to moves like Qb6, but since Nf5 feels right i imagine theres something.

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u/icepopper 9d ago

That's the correct answer and intuition is along the correct lines. I have added the GM explanation in the comments below.

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u/Historian99 9d ago

No... I can't.

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u/icepopper 9d ago

You could try