But the puzzle doesn't say Mate in 3! These kind of puzzles are stupid unless it clearly states mate in x number of moves.  Plus puzzles with multi-solution not stating Mtae in x number of moves never really improve your game.  I think this is a bad puzzle.

not the easiest in the world

The title is "

3/26/2011 - Mate in 3

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The different variations comes across first then black does a different move than in the puzzle. For every given black move in this position (after 1. R1c6!), white has only one response to mate in three.

nice

I agree w/ Gamble2

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It really is a nice one!

That went way over my head.

Beautiful.

Not the only one to find this tough - had to hit Help & I hate that. I wanted to play 1.Nef4 to protect the other knight & threaten mate by Be6 or Qd3 but with the two 'spite' checks by the rook, it takes 4 moves.
Mind-twister !

good

if I am right I see here mate in 2

knight on e to f4 then Qd3 or Be6

Please correct me if I am wrong

1...Rb2+ stops mate on the next move.