I'm sorry I ment to do this as me but I've set the moves the wrong way round is there anyway to fix this?
After I queened my pawn he did this.....
Bit annoying of him to resign there, one move from checkmate. Should let you play it out, nice to mate with a pawn.
Bit annoying of him to resign there, one move from checkmate. Should let you play it out, nice to mate with a pawn.
I don't see a mate in 1 after 35...Ke3, the best I can see is mate in 3 with 36.Ng5+
edit ah of course 36.Nf6+ is mate in 2 but still no mate in 1...
yep mate in two best I could see along those line from start of puzle was a mate in 7 (he saved me a move)
Ah sorry yes, only looked at Kc4. Ng2 looks like mate in 2 also.
I don't know what you meant by that as the knight can't go to g2, but any square other than f6 and black can sack both rooks making it mate in 3
I know I think that was his main mistake not sure how I would have queened that pawn without it....
Probaly done a slow advance.... by taking the pawn on the H rank with my bishop...
The thing that surprised me here is that between your first & second diagrams, you suddenly aquire a knight from nowhere ! No wonder I couldn't find the best continuation - lol.
oops that knight should have been there in the first puzzle was one long game just split the puzzle in two....
Bit annoying of him to resign there, one move from checkmate. Should let you play it out, nice to mate with a pawn.
I don't see a mate in 1 after 35...Ke3, the best I can see is mate in 3 with 36.Ng5+
edit ah of course 36.Nf6+ is mate in 2 but still no mate in 1...
I think Scottrf was assuming 35...Kc4 instead of Ke3 & then 36.b3# (I've just read the thread properly & you've already covered that)
After 35...Ke3, I went for the obvious 36.Ng5 as well but Nf6 is much better !
To address the OP's original question of how Black might have avoided this, 1...Ne7 stops the immediate check & pawn advance but I think 1...Nc6 looks good too (?)
I'm assuming his mistake was to let me have my queen was there anything he could have done differnetly?
and kept his rook???
After that I won with this
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