Interesting Puzzle

Submitted by gmatt on Wed, 10/10/2007 at 5:09pm.

Hi there,

I'm a new member, just joined today (Oct. 10th 2007) and I thought that I would submit a fun puzzle I came across in Polgar's massive book of puzzles. I won't say any more about the puzzle because as soon as I give one hint I will give it all away and it will be far less satisfying if you get it.

Enjoy! (I actually didn't get this puzzle at first but it made such an impression on me I decided to share it.)

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by figrock - 3 years ago
United States

Member Since: Jul 2008
Member Points: 1438

Thanx gmatt for clerification on Raif1's question. Nice puzzle!

by hijau - 4 years ago
Malaysia

Member Since: Jul 2007
Member Points: 56

good puzzle

by gmatt - 4 years ago
Vancouver Canada

Member Since: Oct 2007
Member Points: 85

Hey Raif,

Qg6 is as ineffective as Qg5. The reason why its forced mate is because after 2. ... Qg6 3. d8=N# that is white promotes to a knight instead of a queen.

by Raif1 - 4 years ago
Copenhagen Denmark

Member Since: Sep 2007
Member Points: 123

I don't se why black plays Qg5

nd not Qg6

by fruitallergy - 4 years ago
ak anchorage Chile

Member Since: Oct 2007
Member Points: 101

I promoted to queen and it worked!!

by Poisoned_Pawn - 4 years ago
Norwich, UK United Kingdom

Member Since: Jul 2007
Member Points: 11

Lovely puzzle. I tried checking with the white queen along the long white diagonal a8-h1 thinking the first move just had to be a check. But none of the queen checks worked because of black queen checks on a3 and a2. And if 1) Q-e4+, Qxe4 2) d7, Qxd4+. Queen h5 draws the black queen away to the only square it can't do any damage.

by john100 - 4 years ago
New York,NY United States

Member Since: Oct 2007
Member Points: 6

Good work

by JuliusH - 4 years ago
Denton, TX United States

Member Since: Sep 2007
Member Points: 204

Is it okay to do dy first, and then after whatever black does you take the knight? I suppose it's sorta the same number of moves since you mate with Qe4. Nice puzzle!

by gmatt - 4 years ago
Vancouver Canada

Member Since: Oct 2007
Member Points: 85

Hope you all enjoyed it as much as I have. I've tried to incorporate both the queen and bishop promotion in the puzzle, but I can't seem to get it to work, I've changed it to the queen since thats the one that is more likely to be picked by the average human player.