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8W0001 [solution]	_____	8W0002 [solution] [Next]
8W0003 [solution]	_____	8W0004 [solution] [Next]
8W0001 How to read chess notation. 8. Qf8++ Game over: Black is checkmated.	_____	8W0002 1. Rc1 Qxd2 2. Qc6+ Ka5 3. Ra1+ Kb4 4. Ra4+ Kb3 5. Qc4+ Kb2 6. Ra2+ Kb1 7. Qb3+ Kc1 8. Ra1++
8W0003 1. Rxd8 Bxd8 2. Bxb7 Rxb7 3. Ra8 Rd7 4. Bg5 f6 5. exf6 gxf6 6. Bxf6 Rd1+ 7. Kg2 Kf7 8. Rxd8 wins	_____	8W0004 1. d8=Q!!! Raxd8 2. Re7+ Ka8 3. Be4+ Kb8 4. Rxb6+ Kc8 5. Bb7+ Kb8 6. Rxa6 Rd7 7. Rxd7 and 8. Ra8 mate.
8W0005 [solution]	_____	8W0006 [solution] [Next]
8W0007 [solution]	_____	8W0008 [solution] [Next]
8W0005 1. gxf6+ Qxf6 2. R1h7+ Nxh7 3. Rxh7+ Kxh7 4. Qxf6 wins. 4. ... Rg8 5. Ng5+! Kh6 6. Nf7+ Kh7 7. Bxg6+! Rxg6 8. Qh8 mate.	_____	8W0006 There are many ways to win. (Instead poor white allowed a perpetual check.) By far the simplest is 1. Qe8+ and 2. Qg6+ Qxg6 3. Nxg6 Kxg6 and 4. a4 and the pawn queens on move 8.
8W0007 I think that the best way is to march the king to d1. 1. Kf1 d3 2. Ke1 d2+ 3. Kd1 Kf8 4. c6 Ke8 5. c7 Rc8 6. Rb8 Kd7 7. Rxc8 Kxc8 8. Kxd2 with an easy to win king and pawn endgame. White gets rid of black's passed pawn and trades rooks.	_____	8W0008 Although the solution is long, it is just a simple matter of prying out the king. 1. Bb5+ Bd7 2. Bxd7+ Kxd7 3. Qa4+ Kc7 4. Bd2 (black resigned here.) If Qb2 5. Rfc1+ Kb8 6. Qd7! a6 7. Qd8+ Ka7 8. Be3+ (is there a faster way?)
8W0009 [solution]	_____	8W0010 [solution] [Next]
8W0011 [solution]	_____	8W0012 [solution] [Next]
8W0009 This is a continuation of the previous diagram after 7. ... Kg7 8. Kxh5 Kh7. Now white wins with 1. Kg5 headeding to a6 to win the pawn (he can't queen the h pawn so he gives it up.) Black is compelled to take the h pawn an get to c7	_____	8W0010 1. Bd5+ Ka6 2. Bc4+ Kb7 3. Qd5+ Kb8 4. Qg8+ Kb7 5. Bd5+ Ka6 6. Qc8+ Kb5 7. Qd7+! Ka6 8. Qa4 mate. 4. ... Bd8 delays the mate 1 move but it is done the same way. If 3. ... Kc8? 4. Ba6+! If 2. ... b5 3. Qe6+ and now Kb7? 4. Bd5+.
8W0011 d5 forces the exchange of pieces and is very strong. For example ... 1. d5 exd5 2. cxd5 Kc7 3. dxc6 Bxc6 4. Bxc6 Kxc6 5. Kd4 Kd6 6. b4 Kc6 7. Ke5 Kb5 8. Kf6	_____	8W0012 1. Rxc8 and Kxc8 2. Kf1. The key to this position is to be able to count. It takes 5 moves for white to reach the square d5 with his king, and in the mean time black will get the pawn on a4 and only reach b5 in 5 moves. EZ win for white. 8 white picks up his first pawn by move 8. More pawns will drop soon.
8W0013 [solution]	_____
8W0013 1. Rf7+ wins. Ke8 2. Rxg7+ Kf8 (if Kd8 then Qg5+ wins.) 3. Rh7+ will force mate eventually. if 3. ... Ke8 then 4. Rh8+ is a big king hunt. Kd7 5. Qxg7+ Kd6 6. Qe5+ Ke7 7. Nf5+ mates on move 8. There are other defenses, but black gets mated in all of them.	_____

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