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4B0061 [solution]	_____	4B0062 [solution] [Next]
4B0063 [solution]	_____	4B0064 [solution] [Next]
4B0061 1. ... Rd2! (Black missed this because he was worried about his king safety.) 2. Nf5+ Bxf5 3. Qxh6+ Kf7! 4. Qh5+ Bg6 and white would have to give away his pieces to delay mate.	_____	4B0062 1. ... Qa8! is the easiest way to stop the pawn. If 2. Kc5 Qc8 wins easily. A less interesting way to win is 1. ... Qd7 2. Kb7 Kh7! 3. Kb8 Qxc7+ 4. Kxc7 Kg6 wins.
4B0063 1. ... Nxd4 opens a threat onto the bishop on c4. If 2. Qxd4 Ng4! 3. Qxa7 Nxe3 4. Qxe3 Rxc4 (White can get one more pawn for the bishop by sacking the bishop on f2 on move 3.)	_____	4B0064 Sometimes trading pieces is the way to win. In this position Black plays 1. ... Qxa1 2. Qxa1 Rd1+ 3. Qxd1 (Kh2 might be better) Rxd1+ 4. Kh2 Rxh1+ with an easily won king and pawn endgame.
4B0065 [solution]	_____	4B0066 [solution] [Next]
4B0067 [solution]	_____	4B0068 [solution] [Next]
4B0065 1. ... Qe4+ is crushing. 2. Ka1 Rd3 pins the Queen to the king with the bishop on e5. It also appears to me that 1. ... Rxb3 2. axb3 Bxb2 3. Kxb2?! Qc3+ and 4. ... Rc5 forces mate?	_____	4B0066 1. ... Rxe3+ 2. Kxe3 Re8+ 3. Kd4?? Qe4 mate. VincentVega vs. Woman Grandmaster Evbad at the Internet Chess Club in a 3 0 game. If 3. Kd3 Qe2+ 4. Kd4 Qe4 mate. If 3. Kf4 Re4+ 4. Kf5 Qg6! mate!
4B0067 although from a real game, this resembles more of a composed chess problem. 1. ... Nb6 (the only mate in 4!) with the threat of Nd5 mate. 2. Rxe4 Rd3!! 3. Re3 Nd5+ 4. Kf3 Rxe3 mate!	_____	4B0068 1. ... Qf3! with threat of mate on h1.) If 2. Qd5 then Re1+ 2. Rxe1 Rxe1+ 3. Kxe1 Qxd5 wins. If instead 2. Kg1 Re2! is a crusher. I.e. 3. Qd4 Re1+ or 3. Rf4 Rxd2 4. Rxf3 Rxd1+ wins
4B0069 [solution]	_____	4B0070 [solution] [Next]
4B0071 [solution]	_____	4B0072 [solution] [Next]
4B0069 He just plays 1. ... d3 and white doesn't have a way to stop the pawn. The game continued 2. Kc4 d2 3. Nc4+ Kc6! wins. Note that 3. ... Kd6??? would lose to 4. Ne4+ forking the king and pawn.	_____	4B0070 1. ... Qh3 and the dual threat of Qxf3+ and Rg2 are hard to meet. So 2. Rg1 Rxg1 3. Bxg1 Qxf3+ 4. Qg2 Qxg2 mate. If 3. Kxg1 Qe1 mate! White can sacrifice material to delay mate, bu the result is the same.
4B0071 There is more than one way to win including 1. ... Rd8+ 2. Kc5 Qxd4+ 3. Kxb5 Rd5+ 4. Ka6 Rd6 wins the Queen. If 4. Ka4 then Qd1+ forces mate. Also interesting is 2. ... Qc1+ 3. Kxb5 Rb8+	_____	4B0072 There is the easy 1. ... Qh3+ 2. Ke1 Nd3 forking the king and queen, but better is 2. Qxf3 forcing mate basically by move 4, although white can delay things by giving up material. If 3. Bf2 Rg1+! 4. Bxg1 Nd3 mate.
4B0073 [solution]	_____	4B0074 [solution] [Next]
4B0075 [solution]	_____	4B0076 [solution] [Next]
4B0073 Black is threatening mate but needs to stop all the white checks. Here is how he does it. 1. ... Bxf5 2. Qxh6+ (2. Rg1+ Kf7!!) Kf7!! 3. Qh5+ Bg6 and white would have to give up pieces just to delay mate on move 4.	_____	4B0074 1. ... Qh5+ forking the King and Rook. 2. Rg4 (forced to walk into a pin.) Rg8 3. Kf3 (or else loose the rook) Qh3+ forces the King to move away from the defense of the rook with is lost on move 4.
4B0075 (This position should look familiar.) 1. ... a4! and now no matter what a black pawn is going to go to b3 and white will have to give up a bishop to stop a pawn from queening on move 4. Not how far away the white king is	_____	4B0076 1. ... Qc1+ 2. Ke2 Qc4+ (to guard f7) 3. Kd1 Bf6 4. Qh7 (the only safe square.) Rh8 wins the Queen. More interesting is 1. ... Bf6 2. Qh7 Qc1+ 3. Ke2 d1=Q+!? 4. Rxd1 Re8+ which mates maybe in 6 more moves.
4B0077 [solution]	_____	4B0078 [solution] [Next]
4B0079 [solution]	_____	4B0080 [solution] [Next]
4B0077 1. ... Qc1+ 2. Ke2 Qc4+ (to guard f7) 3. Kd1 Bf6 4. Qh7 (the only safe square.) Rh8 wins the Queen. More interesting is 1. ... Bf6 2. Qh7 Qc1+ 3. Ke2 d1=Q+!? 4. Rxd1 Re8+ which mates maybe in 6 more moves.	_____	4B0078 1. ... Ne5!! (thats to Alan Woodbury for this problem.) and now both the Queen and Knight on f3 are threatened. Now 2. Nxe5 (white has no way to protect d4) Qxd4+ 3. Kf1 Qxa1+ and now 4. Kf2 fxe6+ wins or 4. Ke2 Qxe5+ wins.
4B0079 1. ... Qh3 with the strong threat of Rxg3+. If 2. Kf2? Qh2+ 3. Ke1 Qxg3+ with a won endgame after the trade of Queens. If 2. Qf5+ Qxf5 3. Rxf5 Rxg3+ 4. Kf2 Rg5 with a won endgame. if 2. Rf3?? Rd1+ 3. Kf2 Qf1+ 4. Ke3 Rd3 mate	_____	4B0080 Interesting is 1. ... Bxg3 which probably wins. At least as good if not better is 1. ... Bc5 2. Bxc5 (forced) bxc5 and now the black king is so better placed he wins easily. The game continued 3. a3?! c4 4. a4 a5 and now white gives ground.

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