Usually its less than a minute for this type and level in CTB, but I became fixated on NxB as part of the solution, and kept trying to make it work.
Once I moved away from that thought, the answer was very quick.
Possibly this was because I had spent the previous 30 minutes on Knight mates and tactics.
Two lessons learned.
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The solution is Qe6, with a forked double-threat of mate or win a rook.
ReplyDeleteMy first question to a puzzle is: Is it about mate, promotion or material.
ReplyDeleteif you start thinking about mate then g7 becomes very interesting.
A second good question is: which piece is not overprotected. The count at the rook c7 is 0. This makes the rook to a possibly target of a tactic.
After these both questions the solution is not that hard anymore ( still you always have to find it )
Hi AoxomoxoA.
ReplyDelete"still you always have to find it"...very true, but some systematic process is always useful !
I did solve it eventually, but as mentioned, I had a single track with all the knight puzzles I'd been doing.
This is an issue with carrying out puzzles based on a single theme, I think, although they are useful to cement some ideas.