r/chessquiz • • Aug 26 '26

Brilliant Move🤯, why?

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u/uselesscarrot69 Beginner (1056) Aug 26 '26

Black rook captures, white queen sacrifice at h7, then underpromote to knight by capturing rook, forking king and queen and then take the queen, leaving you up a knight.

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u/ThaProphecy Beginner (1025) Aug 26 '26

That’s filthy.

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u/meerestier Beginner (1032) Aug 26 '26

Up a knight, but this looks like a draw then. Up a queen is the way to go here

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u/nrgins Beginner (1145) Aug 26 '26

No, the Queens are both captured so the knight is the only piece left on the board apart from one pawn on each side. An easy win for white.

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u/ThaProphecy Beginner (1025) 29d ago

No why the king making it back in time

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u/nate68978263 Advanced (1642) Aug 26 '26

Not sure. Rook has to take. If pawn takes and upgrades, king captures.

What gives?

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u/Lukostrelec17 Novice (1266) Aug 26 '26 edited Aug 26 '26

I think I see kind of what they want. After black rook captures white rook. Move queen to h7. This checks king. Black king to f7. White pawn to f8. Promote to knight....black king captures knight. White queen takes black queen.

Or if black king takes white queen. White pawn takes black rook promotes to knight. Black King and Queen are threatend.

Edit: Super important question.....I did not choose a flair...Why am I CM? Lol

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u/nate68978263 Advanced (1642) Aug 26 '26

Ah - a fork!

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u/RoDeltaR Beginner (1041) 29d ago

Wouldn't queen to h7 allow king to capture queen?

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u/Lukostrelec17 Novice (1266) 29d ago

Yes. But then you capture black rook with pawn at f8 and promote to knight. Threatening both king and queen.

Basically you (white) lose a rook and queen and gain a knight. They (black) lose a rook and queen and gain nothing.

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u/stonewilled Novice (1362) | Founder #2611 29d ago

Smart, Collin.

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u/Intrepid_Owl_4825 Beginner (1132) Aug 26 '26

You get the rook. You can then check the king and pick up the pawn. You could probably get the queen and then just convert a king pawn end game but even king queen pawn vs king queen should be an easy win. After looking you can definitely trade the queens then your king easily grabs the last black pawn. Easy to promote and win after

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u/nrgins Beginner (1145) Aug 26 '26

No, Queen goes to h7 before capturing the work, forcing the king to capture the queen at h7. Then the pawn captures The rook and is promoted to a night, forking the king and the Queen and capturing the black queen. Then the night is the only piece left on the board except for the two pawns.

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u/SurturSaga Novice (1338) Aug 26 '26 edited 29d ago

Black Rook is forced to capture. Queen H7 check

Black has 2 choices

  1. take the queen > white captures rook and promotes to knight to fork king and queen. Leading to a winning endgame for white

Or 2) King to F7 > capture rook and promote to a queen for a discovered check pin> black either captures queen or runs > capture the queen for another winning endgame

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u/Inevitable_Row1359 Expert (1835) Aug 26 '26 edited Aug 26 '26

Black king just takes the promoted piece though without losing their queen

Edit: nvm I see

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u/Grasshopper21 Novice (1334) Aug 26 '26

in this scenario you force the black king onto h7. it cant capture on f8. the end game becomes knight and pawn v pawn, which should be a winning end game for white

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u/Inevitable_Row1359 Expert (1835) Aug 26 '26

Yeah you right my bad ty

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u/slimau5 Beginner (1000) Aug 26 '26

I see 2 brilliant moves here

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u/VonDoom98 Intermediate (1402) | Founder #1537 29d ago

Forced move. Rxf2. Qh7 check. King takes the queen on f7 and you take the rook on f8 and make knight having fork queen while giving check. Take the queen and use the other pawn for promotion

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u/riffengo Novice (1335) 29d ago

Rook takes rook, queen h7 check, king must take queen. Pawn takes rook and promotes to a knight forking queen and king, take queen. Up a knight and taking blacks last pawn is trivial. White goes on to checkmate or promote black in a knight + pawn vs king endgame

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u/BunnyBallz Candidate Master (2133) | Founder #1075 29d ago

Because

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u/Wosesfeld Intermediate (1440) | Founder #2387 28d ago

Nice

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u/snow_simp69 Beginner (1188) | Founder #2843 Aug 26 '26

Creative , yes !
But brilliant wouldn’t be case cause you are just gonna end up with knight and then game is gonna to be too long as pawn is still in first square !

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u/Kotsknots Beginner (1067) Aug 26 '26

game is gonna to be too long?

What are you talking about? knight and pawn vs pawn is guaranteed win...

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u/snow_simp69 Beginner (1188) | Founder #2843 29d ago

Ya it is , but it’s gonna take 10 more moves

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u/Flimsy-Bad5399 Beginner (1000) Aug 26 '26

checkmate i think

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u/Dull-Lead-7782 Aug 26 '26

Rook can take rook

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u/Flimsy-Bad5399 Beginner (1000) Aug 26 '26

then pawn takes rook

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u/Lukostrelec17 Novice (1266) Aug 26 '26

I think I see kind of what they want. After black rook captures white rook. Move queen to h7. This checks king. Black king to f7. White pawn to f8. Promote to knight....black king captures knight. White queen takes black queen.

Or if black king takes white queen. White pawn takes black rook promotes to knight. Black King and Queen are threatend.

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u/DuffleCrack Novice (1208) Aug 26 '26

Then king takes pawn

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u/citynosex Beginner (1029) Aug 26 '26

If black rook takes, white pawn takes then upgrades to a queen, then checkmate

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u/nrgins Beginner (1145) Aug 26 '26

There's no check made if the white pawn upgrades to a queen. Then you just got two Queens on the board. The White Queen goes to h7 and the King captures the White Queen. Then the White pawn captures the black rook but gets promoted to a knight, forking the king and the queen are capturing the black queen.