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Black in this situation should just resign..! Good puzzle KingLeopold.

queen captures knight putting king in check. forced to capture with other rook or move king in corner.

If he moves king in corner, bishop puts him in check mate or captures the rook with queen putting in check, his rook captures youre queen, you capture his rook and checkmate.  If he captures the queen with his rook, you put the king in check with youre rook, hes forced to move his rook down, and then you capture his rook with youre second rook and he is checkmate.

3 possibilities...

I think.

qc7 +

Fupper!!! Well written!!!!

Qxc7 was the first move I looked at.... Kasparov said something about chess intuition in his book, "How life imitates chess", and this position proved to be one of those intuitive moments.  I'm a player who likes to attack, sacrifice, and use combinations for victories, so when I looked at the position QxC7, intuition told me this moved seemed most accurate and most powerful.......

Cool stories. very imaginative.

fupper just made my day

gavriil23 - 99 minutes ago
Azerbaijan

I am f@@@@ing positional player :) Didnt see Qc7

1) Rd3 Rc8 only move 2)Rb3! b6 only move 3) Bc6

Qxc7+ Rxc7 Rxd8+ Rc8 Rxc8#

The queen looks at the King, knowing she must make the strike.  She gazes over the land, and sees a valiant knight blocking her path.  "For my KING!"  she shouts, and lunges at the unexpected knight.  Her life will be over, but the war is won!

For as the tale goes, the King can either retreat himself, or else have his rook vanquish the Queen.  The King takes a second, and realizes, he has no options, he is caught.  In his mind, he sees his childhood, his parents, his castle, and the lives of all his brave warriors, all taken. 

Should his rook destroy the fair wench, another of his nemesis' rooks will fly out, kill the unprotected rook and threaten his life.  His living rook will have no choice but to protect his king and block the offenders path, but the battle is lost here, for that rook's life will end and the king will have nothing left.

If the King flees, the Queen can give chase, killing yet another, the rook! As she does this, she threatens the Kings life once again.  This time, the living rook will have no choice but to protect his King, and kill the Queen, but it is too late, the enemy has the battle won.

The king, knowing of his imminent demise, decides to sacrafice himself, so that his brave warriors, will no longer have to suffer.

... Hows that for a story?

1. Qxc7+, and now:

a) Black replies, 1...Rxc7, then 2.Rxd8+, Rc8  3. Rxc8#

or:

b) Black replies, 1...Ka8, then 2.Qc8#, Rxc8  3.Rxc8#

Very good but there must be a better way of presenting the problem. Fortunately I solved it before scrolling down. It might benefit from a warning that answers are posted below and perhaps putting the diagram at the top, with text at the bottom. Thanks for the posting. By the way it's funny that the back rank hint made me look first at Rxc7, which obviously loses to Rxd1+.

There is 2 possibilities

1.Rc1xc7    2.Rd7xc7    3.Rd1xd8

1.Qe5xg7   2.Rd7xg7    3.Rd1xd8

Nice... I learned something here. I didn't find the move, but Aha... it's backrank. I must think that the rook on 8-rank must be taken with tempo. Thank you for this nice combination-puzzle :) I learned something today :)

very nice! wish the site had such puzzles

Correct! It is easy to tell the story when it is only a few moves. And as you can see this story has an alternet ending as after 1.Qxc7+ if 1...Ka8 then 2.Bxb7# mates quickly, so the story is prolonged for a few moves with 1...Rxd7 and you know the rest.