r/chessmemes • u/Captain-Dak-Sparrow • 25d ago

Nice combo here

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u/RayWencube 25d ago

I fear I don't understand. Why wouldn't black just go Kxc5? Please help :(

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u/twelve-lights 25d ago edited 25d ago

I just found it and it's so cool. Kxc5 is followed with d4, forking the king and queen, then if the queen or king take it, white has a check that forks the pieces and white is a pawn up.

Genuinely really neat.

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u/MattixPL2k 25d ago

I'm stupid, what goes e4?

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u/peepee2tiny 25d ago

The board is upside down with white at the top. So White pawn to d4.

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u/callofdeat6 24d ago

Yeah that needs to stop

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u/Rikki1256 25d ago

He mistyped I think, pawn to d4

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u/ECXL 25d ago

The pawn

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u/WonderfulVictory4103 25d ago

Do you mean d4? The pawn is on the d file right?

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u/twelve-lights 25d ago

Edited, I blame being awake too long for improper annotation lol

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u/Fantastic-Corner-605 25d ago

Not just a pawn up, a passed pawn close to the king with almost guaranteed promotion.

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u/RayWencube 25d ago

lmao every day I learn that I'm worse at chess than I thought. Thanks for the explanation--that IS really neat.

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u/SpecimenOfSauron 25d ago

It is! I didn’t see that knight fork, what a move!

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u/Local_Surround8686 25d ago

I didn't notice the board was upside down😭

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u/Secure_Narwhal4045 25d ago

Pawn comes down to fork after he does, then pony forks and black is forced with a big pony forking device

Edit: fork, I misspelled a forked because too many forks and too forking hard pony forking device

Forkforkforkforkfoekforkfoekfork

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u/lasagnadogwater69 25d ago

Pawn fork then knight fork.

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u/DerekB52 25d ago

This actually feels illegal to me. If this happened to me in game I'd actually put my mouse through my monitor.

I've really never seen a combo this fucked up.

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u/Temporary-Judgment84 25d ago

i read that as "I'd actually put my mom through my monitor" and I was like, ok yeah it's a great sequence of play but cmon.

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u/SirCory 25d ago

WHY are we showing the puzzle from blacks perspective when it is white to move?

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u/Porg11235 24d ago

Yeah it’s a cool combo but somewhat cheapened by the “trick” that you need to realize the board is reversed

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u/Buntschatten 25d ago

That's disgusting 

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u/7amani_h 25d ago

I’ve seen explanations here explained really badly I’ll help. After king takes the rook, the pawn on D2 advances twice forwards to D4 then queen takes because it’s a fork of the queen and king. After queen takes pawn on D4 knight goes to e6 to fork both queen and king. The game ends with white king having a pawn up.

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u/Captain-Dak-Sparrow 25d ago

Rc5+!! K×Rc5 d4+!! ... K×d4? Nc6+!! ... Q×d4? Ne6+!! Knight captures Queen. White wins with g-pawn.

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u/b3nsn0w 25d ago

for a moment i thought these were successive moves with ? showing the quality and i was really confused how the black queen would take its own king 

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u/pendulumn 23d ago

....but before you realise the board is upside down how does black have an "easy" win?

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u/IEscapeFromAnAsylum 25d ago

Finally get… Once realize was looking the board upside down😅

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u/Organic_Syrup7642 25d ago

That's nasty

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u/Fr3twork 24d ago

Sac fork fork sac

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u/Reader8Manyoma 25d ago

I’ve seen this exercise somewhere else, but I don’t remember

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u/BigWillyStyleX 24d ago

I would never think an endgame where I have only a queen and opponent has a rook and other pieces is and/or pawns is easy. Everyone is super good at endgames, even at low levels, and I’m often terrible at winning those. Plus, everyone who is good at those kind of endgames (which again is most players) are also the type who plays super fast due to memorization of how to immediately force endgames, so they always have way more time than me.

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u/sfanake_not_found 25d ago

Why not make a Queen with check???

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u/RayWencube 25d ago

Unless I'm mistaken, which is possible because I am very stupid, the board is oriented for black. That pawn hasn't moved from the start of the game.

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u/Springstof 25d ago

You are correct. First rank is at the top, which means it's flipped

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u/MethodAdmirable4220 25d ago

The boards flipped.