Sunday, April 27, 2008

Sunday puzzle


White to play and win.

(Gunst, 1922)

9 comments:

Jonathan B said...

This looks familiar.

Tom Chivers said...

I think I have it. Since black must try to win a piece (otherwise white will just win on material) I think white can trap the black monarch and mate with the bishop: the solution is 1.Bb7 Kc7 2.Ba6 Kxb8 3.Kd6 Ka8 4.Kc7 and 5.Bb7#.

Jonathan B said...

We've had this before - I'm sure of it. Can't remember when though.

Perhaps I saw it somewhere else.

Tom Chivers said...

Mm, probably somewhere else. It's the first mention of Gunst:

http://streathambrixtonchess.blogspot.com/search?q=Gunst

Anonymous said...

That one seemed easy for a change. Perhaps the puzzle was how to mate with B and N
Andrew

ejh said...

Perhaps I saw it somewhere else

Conceivably in Nunn's Secrets of Practical Chess.

Jonathan B said...

That must be it.

I knew instantly that the solution was Bb7 although I couldn't recall why. If we've not had it on the blog before it must have been in Nunn's book that I saw it.

Tom Chivers said...

Is that Nunn book one worth reading, do you suppose?

ejh said...

Yeah, though as ever reading something and applying it are two different things.