Chess Puzzle #5061

CHESS PUZZLE, FEN r1bnr1k1/1p2b1pp/1q2pn2/p2p2N1/3P1N2/3Q4/PP3PPP/RBB2RK1 w - -

Added by:	kingdawar
Added on:	07-Jul-08
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Difficulty:	chess puzzle r1bnr1k1/1p2b1pp/1q2pn2/p2p2N1/3P1N2/3Q4/PP3PPP/RBB2RK1 w - -
Attempts:	1626
Solved:	1423 (87%)


White to move, mate in 3

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josep_85
16-Jan-13, 02:58

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Very nice.

Beautifull. Being easy does not take the beauty of the resolution.

fezzik
16-Jan-13, 05:48

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Dead easy...

This is just dead easy. Playing the game, I would be far more happy about reaching this position than finishing it off. It takes quite a bit more skill to reach these positions than to find a simple mate such as this.

1 Star Difficulty
2.5 Stars Aesthetics. It's good to be reminded that real games can finish with a Queen sac and a forced mate. This tactic should become just about automatic for any club player.

Chessgames.com has the game. Shashin-Dashkevich, that was played in *Riga* not Moscow, 1955, but they provide no further details. It looks and smells like a simul game. Black played a normal opening, but the instant there were any tactics, he fell apart.

Nikolai Dashkevich was about FM/IM strength in the 1950s. I think he mostly played in Byelorus. I am not sure whether this was the same person who played in this game.

There was also a Russian composer, Vladimir Dashkevich. It makes sense that this may have been a game against the composer. Black's play looks like it was the wrong side of a simul.

kingdawar
16-Jan-13, 06:00

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Yes, as far as I can see it was 1954 Moscow or 1955 Riga. I cannot really verify the truth of either piece of information. Which of the Dashkeviches was playing black is also not clear from what I have found on the Internet. Maybe the game was already published in a 1954 magazine to clear up this issue. Who knows?

nikirandom
16-Jan-13, 07:52

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Fezzik,

What does "wrong side of a simul" mean please?. I mean I expect it's 'simulation', but what does it mean?

thor99
16-Jan-13, 10:09

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sicknero

i do not know what fezzik means by "wrong side of a simul" but a simul is where one player plays against multiple chess players at different boards. so one person would be simuling if he was playing ten games at ten different boards with ten different people.

jrums14
16-Jan-13, 10:30

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Simul is short for simultaneous

The expert player always plays white against many novice/club players all playing black.

suentun
16-Jan-13, 11:45

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it seemed so difficult before i noticed the wsb...

nikirandom
16-Jan-13, 12:40

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Thanks

thor99 and jrums14

fezzik
16-Jan-13, 22:28

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Simultaneous Exhibitions (Simuls)

I've played numerous simultaneous exhibitions (simuls) where I allow the players to choose their color. Whether the players are allowed white or black in any given simul is entirely up to the person giving the simul.

Black in this game played the opening well, but immediately went wrong as soon as he left his "book knowledge". He started retreating his pieces to bad squares and got checkmated very quickly as a result. This happens quite often in simuls. The difference in the quality of white's play as opposed to Black's play suggests to me that it may have been an exhibition game.

The fact that chessgames.com has the complete game score suggests to me that it is more likely to be correct than an anthology of chess tactics. Alexander Shashin is still around. It probably wouldn't be too hard to track him down and ask him if he remembers the conditions of the match.

nikirandom
17-Jan-13, 02:24

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Thank you.

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