Wednesday, December 28, 2011

The twelve puzzles of Xmas



M. Platov, 1904

White to play and win

5 comments:

John Cox said...

Good grief, I believe I have solved a study. This almost never happens - certainly not with any of the positions in that Timman book someone gave me for Christmas.

Not the most disguised theme, but I suppose it was 1904.

ejh said...

You are allowed to celebrate by giving the solution....

Anonymous said...

Yes, an obvious theme to trap & win the queen, but nicely done even for 1904. I like the way it operates predominantly on white squares.

I'll let JC "celebrate", as he was invited to do so by EJH.

John Cox said...

Well, if I did that my pleasure might be spoiled by finding out I had it wrong.

Still, as you ask 1 Rg6+ Ke6 2 Rg8 Qf3 3 Be2 is my proposal.

ejh said...

Yep: there's a couple of variations but they're given where I found the study, which was in the Chess Café Endgame Studies Archive.

First published, as it says there, in Rigaer Tageblatt, 1904.