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Chess Problem -5

Submitted by sanjayd1998 on Mon, 06/29/2009 at 5:54am.

White to play and mate in two.

Hint:Black threatens to take on b1, so White must create a strong threat. At the moment White's queen is under-employed, doing nothing more than cover b4 and c5, a job which couldĀ  equally well be performed by a bishop. How can White make use of the lateral powers of his queen?

Sometimes a solution to a problem cannot be deduced by a purely sequential reasoning process- a leap of imagination is required. It seems likely that White's queen will be involved, because at the moment she is not using her full powers, but how exactly? 1 Kd6! This certainly brings the queen into the game, because this creates a threat of 2 Qb7 mate, but otherwise it appears to be one of the most unlikely moves on the board. Not only does it allow Black's king to flee to b4, it also permites Black's rook to deliver check on either g6 or d3. However both these checks block the h7-bishop's attack on b1, allowing White to give mate by discovery 1...Rd3+ 2 Bd5 mate or 1...Rg6+ 2 Be6 mate. The only otherĀ  move to meet the threat is 1...Kb4, but this leads to the thrid mate by discovery after 2 Kxc6.

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Comments:

by sanjayd1998 - 2 years ago
Bangalore India
Member Since: Nov 2008
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Ba2 mate ???? Black just captures the rook on b1 and there is no mate in one.

by mattchess8282 - 2 years ago
Trento Italy
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It's mate in one.

by mattchess8282 - 2 years ago
Trento Italy
Member Since: Apr 2008
Member Points: 33

Ba2#

by sanjayd1998 - 2 years ago
Bangalore India
Member Since: Nov 2008
Member Points: 208

Bc2 mate? Black's king can go to c4

by Mikhail-Tal - 2 years ago
Latvia
Member Since: Apr 2009
Member Points: 98

you took it from chessmaster , but that good to share that with those who don't own this software, keep it !

by anuj_manerikar - 2 years ago
Pune India
Member Since: Dec 2008
Member Points: 200

bc2 is mate right away

 

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