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Anton Korobov 2401 Andrei Volokitin 2469 Kharkov ch-UKR 2001 Black to move
The white queen hopes to protect the king by covering the h3-square. But Black interfered with this defence:
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Alexander Karpatchev 2570 Alexander Potapov 2475 St Petersburg ch-RUS 1998 Black to move
White’s hopes are bound up with perpetual check on the c8- and f5-squares. Consequently, Black needs to find a way to drive the white queen off this diagonal. In the game, Black missed a chance to end the game beautifully:
Having seen the winning idea, it is easy to find the right way of executing it: first, the white king is driven to a square where the black pawn will queen with check.
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Training position Konstantin Sakaev White to move
If we look at the opposition of queens on the e-file from a more imaginative standpoint than the usual one, and note that even though the bishop on e5 is pinned, it can move anywhere, we soon find a nice finish:
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Mikhail Botvinnik Paul Keres Moscow 1966 White to move
Any means by which White can get his queen to h4 or h5 are good. He finds a way:
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Paulo Pinho 2128 Joseph Gallagher 2499 Gibraltar 2013 Black to move
26...Nd3!! 27.Bxd3 Qf3 28.Qd2 Bxe3+