Talent test puzzle

Originally posted by iamatiger
But instead of 7... c1, can't blacks queen shuttle up and down the a column, keeping a diagonal attack on white's queen while white's queen is on row 8 - with QxQ = stalemate? I think it has to be specifically 7 Qe8

7 Qe8 Qa4
8 Qe5+ Ka8
9 Qh8
Now if black's queen moves to a1, white can take it - crucially with check, if black tries Qf4 white ha ...[text shortened]...

7........ Qc1/c3
8. Kd7+ (BTW any specific algebraic symbols for a check like this?)
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Hiya,

I think it has to be

7.Qg8 Qa2 first, then
8.Qe8 Qa4 etc,

the immediate Qe8 is met by Qg7 preventing the discovered check 🙂

Originally posted by drumfish
Hiya,

I think it has to be

7.Qg8 Qa2 first, then
8.Qe8 Qa4 etc,

the immediate Qe8 is met by Qg7 preventing the discovered check 🙂

so if somebody solved this without moving pieces under 10 minutes, he should be very proud.

and Qg8 indeed wins and is best.

Originally posted by Jusuh
[fen]3K4/kp6/p7/1P6/8/8/7P/8 w - - 0 1[/fen]

white to play

i guess some of you have seen this before. if you have, dont post any solutions.

and try to solve this on your own...
EDIT: by the way. it took over 2 minutes for Kasparov to solve this.

Originally posted by Jusuh
so if somebody solved this without moving pieces under 10 minutes, he should be very proud.

and Qg8 indeed wins and is best.

Originally posted by red king richie
i solved it in like fifteen seconds, well that is if i solved it right anyways.

simple move the pawn on sqaure A 2 to A 8 to get a queen