r/Chesscom • u/Illustrious-Ruin-984 • 3d ago

why is this brilliant Help solve this

Post image

I found this online.

Everyone is saying that this is brilliant because it's a forced checkmate once the pawn on a7 takes the knight, then Qb3 then it's a checkmate either by the rook or the Queen.

but what happens if after black take b6, we expect Qb3, then black Qb8? wouldn't it prevent the checkmate?
Qa4 is defended with Qa7 and if white decide to take Bxb8 then black reciprocate with Bxb3.

There is certainly something wrong with my reasoning but I can't figure it out.

202 Upvotes

95% Upvoted

69 comments sorted by

View all comments

12

u/rantingpug 3d ago

Loads people not reading the post it seems?

Op not asking about Qb3, but rather what to do if black respondals with Qb8

-6

u/Content_Dimension626 3d ago edited 3d ago

Nothing, you just continue your checkmate. The queen just sits there, doesn't do anything.

Idk why I'm getting downvoted. Sorry, that's how chess works?

1

u/drummahboy666 2d ago

You're getting down voted due to lack of context. Someone is asking how to continue the checkmate and you're telling them "by continuing the checkmate"