Daily Rome Shot 877 – Wherein Fr. Z blew it.

Photo by The Great Roman™… nearly in real time!  Look at that lovely evening light.

Meanwhile, as I write I’m watching Day one of the Champions Chess Tour Finals in Toronto, my guy Wesley So took down Hikaru Nakamura 1.5 to 0.5.  In a couple minutes some Armageddon play starts between Fabi and MLV.  For my part today, I played OTB and won two.  Rather, I blew one and came back to win it (a pretty queen and knight mate) and then won another and blew it at the end by stalemating my opponent.  Grrr.  That’s frustrating.  It was a good game, however, against a very strong player.

Meanwhile, white to move and mate in 4? 5 for sure I think.  Thanks Fr. JC for sending it!   I’d rather we were enjoying this with cigars.

1. Qxf7+ Rxf7 2. Ra8+ Qd8 3. Rxd8+ Rf8 4. Bxe6+ Kh8 5. Rxf8#
NB: I’ll hold comments with solutions ’till the next day so there won’t be “spoilers” for others.

Can you believe I blew this? GRRR. Then I blew it on the king side, too. GRRRRRRR.

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