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29th March 2009, 01:00am
#1
by Alduskkel
United States
Member Since: Jan 2009
Member Points: 58

I recently got checkmated in a game I was playing on Live Chess. The last 4 moves seemed like a puzzle to me.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The moves leading up to the position were:

29th March 2009, 01:14am
#2
by LearnChess
United States
Member Since: Jul 2008
Member Points: 515

Good one.

29th March 2009, 01:34am
#3
by jalali
tehran/iran Iran
Member Since: Jan 2009
Member Points: 348

easy thnx

29th March 2009, 01:49am
#4
by Daedalus
Santa Cruz, California United States
Member Since: Sep 2008
Member Points: 598

There was also 4. ...Bg6#; nice and easy, thanks!

29th March 2009, 05:56am
#5
by jugaz
Helsinki Finland
Member Since: Oct 2008
Member Points: 15

It's acctually a mate in 3.

1. ... Qg1

2. Kf3 Rh1h3+

3.Ke2  Bh5#

or: 3. Kf4 Rh8h4#

5th December 2009, 07:17pm
#6
by dboyeagle
Milwaukee United States
Member Since: Nov 2009
Member Points: 3

The only problem withthe 3 move mate (jugaz) is that white would use his knight to block and thus it would still be four moves.  vaseer's way was nice.  I seen the mate how jugaz described it, but not vaseer's.  I eventually did but it took a couple of minutes.

 

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