Zwischenzug (Intermezzo)
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This zwischenzug is very effective, it's usually classified as advanced, but you people shouldn't have any problem...
Just keep analysing it... It'll come to you
I think this could be a Draw!
Why, because its the black turn to move and the rook will always check the white king, the only move of white king is in the 1st Row and 2nd Row, if white goes up in the 3rd row possible checkmate.
But there is a chance not to draw the white can sacrifice his queen, and I think more chance of winning is for black.
This my only observation maybe I'm wrong (you can correct me)
It's probably won for white since he can play Kf1-e2-d1-c2 avoiding the draw. But it will be hard to win, and there's certainly no mate in 10 (After 5. f4 for example: 1. f4 Rb2+ 2. Ke1 Rb1+ 3. Kd2 Rb2+ 4. Kc1 Rb6 5. Qxe5+ Ke7 6. f5 Rc6 7. fxe6 Rxe6 8. Qc7+ Kf8 and white certainly won't mate in two)
I did not say it was easy to see, certainly no room for mistakes while avoiding black's checks, but there IS mate in 10 moves
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I got it till the last move. I was going for Qxh7 and clearing up that side of black pawns, instead of exposing my own pawn on the f column (especially since it protects me from Rook checks for a couple of rounds). If I am too bright and knew that there would be a mate in 10 moves, then I could have seen the last move (ha ha - I can dream). It seemed safer to clear out the pawns on g and h columns and win it that way...
Which part of this puzzle is zwischenzug?
Here is another well-know example of zwischenzug. the key of the position is the unprotected Knight on e7:
More examples in my latest blog post: http://chesstrainerapp.blogspot.fr/2014/02/zwischenzug-say-it-again.html