what a beautiful study!! nice first move, nice black defense, nice "pure" mates in the middle of the board, nice queen capture... just my "aficionado" opinion. Thank you!
1:40 - Why not Q-b8+? Black's only move is the king. Then you could use the queen and bishop to constantly check the king, force a bad move eventually.
Like most, I figured the sham bishop sacrifice was the way to go, but I'm simply not capable of calculating far beyond that point. I could see the quick win if black takes with the king but was dumbfounded if he refused the offering.
Saw the main trick quickly, the starting move is simple once you've seen a lot of these puzzles!
I guessed the first move but didn't explore all the lines. Some are really artistic!
Found the first move OK, but the follow-up lines were too complicated for me! Very nice puzzle, thanks.
Same here!😅😊
what a beautiful study!!
nice first move, nice black defense, nice "pure" mates in the middle of the board, nice queen capture...
just my "aficionado" opinion.
Thank you!
Excellent variation of winning. Just brilliant. Thank you very much.
This tricky guy Troitski is a real dreamliner😂
That is quite bizarre that King on e7 is not winning but on f7 is.
1:40 - Why not Q-b8+? Black's only move is the king. Then you could use the queen and bishop to constantly check the king, force a bad move eventually.
You can just see endgame table base to see why this move not work.
Like some others here, I got the first move, but I was too concerned about keeping my king off of a white square to get my king closer to the action.
1)Bh1-- Ba4 ch; 2) Ke7 --Bc6;3)Bxc6 -- c2;4)a8 Queen --C1Queen; 5) etc
Very nice, key not too difficult, great variations.
Like most, I figured the sham bishop sacrifice was the way to go, but I'm simply not capable of calculating far beyond that point. I could see the quick win if black takes with the king but was dumbfounded if he refused the offering.
I got the BH1 right. But the continuation with KF7 was too tricky.
Looks like this Troitsky fellow has a promising future in making chess puzzles. 😜
I see the first move, but I completely miss the Kf7.
First move was easy not all the further variations - thanks
I found the very first move, but could not follow up
3:10 White can win also if play Qxc3 but Qa2 is faster way
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