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10/26/2011 - Mate in 3


  • 19 months ago · Quote · #81

    mickyD

    solved it!

  • 19 months ago · Quote · #82

    jollyrodger

    well that has to be the most enjoyable one - thank you Wink

  • 19 months ago · Quote · #83

    pablosp

    Nice one

  • 19 months ago · Quote · #84

    Lattenkiste

    Me likey

  • 19 months ago · Quote · #85

    jerirose

    nice!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Sealed

  • 19 months ago · Quote · #86

    rbk1

    good one!

  • 19 months ago · Quote · #87

    ZacWilson

    nice one.

  • 19 months ago · Quote · #88

    Djazbin

    Art of destruction.

  • 19 months ago · Quote · #89

    Big_Daddy_10

    Sac the Rook...Sac the Queen...Smack the King!

    Nice Forced Mate and EZ!

  • 19 months ago · Quote · #90

    dufferps

    Nice sequence.  Any other response to 1. Rh6, would be followed by 2. Rxh7#

  • 19 months ago · Quote · #91

    shivam

    brilliant puzzle!

  • 19 months ago · Quote · #92

    h3lo123

    love the queen and rook sack

  • 19 months ago · Quote · #93

    zeph_levin

    The lesson as always, queens are only good for sacrificing. 

  • 19 months ago · Quote · #94

    Twobit

    The queen again...

  • 19 months ago · Quote · #95

    wyh2013

    very tricky

  • 19 months ago · Quote · #96

    shivam

    the art of creating puzzles....

    1. what is it that you want? (queen sac and rook sac)

    2. place the q and rook, place the king...the way you want...

    3. play the sac moves, by placing other pieces like the pawns etc...

    3. eliminate possible escapes/alternatives

    but the puzzle is still not good as it is too simple...the sequence etc. must be only in this order to be able to mate.... designing this is the difficult part...e.g- the queen checking the king first instead of the bishop...i need help on this!!! how to be able to design this?

     

    i have never made a puzzle but i guess this is how they do it....

  • 19 months ago · Quote · #97

    atafali_altaf

    very good

  • 19 months ago · Quote · #98

    petty

    GooD!!

  • 19 months ago · Quote · #99

    GoldenFire

    Cool puzzle!  I wouldnt have saw that coming haha

  • 19 months ago · Quote · #100

    dufferps

    E-Kuko wrote:

    Kraemer 1948 - White to play and mate in 6. Replay the puzzle after solving it to see some notes.

     

     


    Very instructive puzzle.  I failed to see two aspects of the situation:

    1 - that check by the knight would be checkmate, (if only the queen could not capture the knight right off)  ... and
    2 - that black was in zugzwang; could not move anything but the queen and had to keep the queen in position to capture the knight at either of his checking squares.

    I was way too overwhelmed by the black queen's "threat" to my rook.

    Thanks for the lesson.


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