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Frankwho

I will be posting a bunch of PGs in 4 moves, all from Jeff Coakley's book Winning Chess Puzzles for Kids Volume 2. I'll post a few a day. Here are the first ones.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

mosai
mosai
mosai
mosai
mosai

Last one was hard

Frankwho

You got the first four. Good job!

chessdragonboge

nice

Frankwho

Remellion
Frankwho

Correct. This next one still appears in the same book, but the author seems to have cited a composer.

A. Buchanan 2004

GreenCastleBlock

Remellion

That would refer to Andrew Buchanan. Answer in white below, and I think I'd stay away after this. Addictive little things these are.

1. e4 Nf6 2. Qh5 Nxe4 3. Qxh7 Nf6 4. Qg8 Nxg8

Remellion

Oh, and GreenCastleBlock's one is a classic, also a proof game in 4.0. Tibor Orban, Die Schwalbe 1976. I won't give the answer.

Frankwho

I like retros and PGs too. They are quite addictive, except sometimes I have trouble finding them. There are a bunch of retros in that book too, but I just finished working on them so now I'm out.

Anyways, here's another proof game.

Frankwho

Isn't there a three move solution to that too? Though the 4th move does make it harder.

Remellion

For Orban's, there are a bunch of options for 3.0 or 5.0 moves, but the 4.0 solution is unique and intended.

As for your most recent post, I think it's cooked. I see 3 move orders/variations.

bangalore2

For GCB's proof:

e4 e6

Bb5

WOW! Ok, I won't give this one away!

Frankwho
Remellion wrote:

For Orban's, there are a bunch of options for 3.0 or 5.0 moves, but the 4.0 solution is unique and intended.

As for your most recent post, I think it's cooked. I see 3 move orders/variations.

Can you message me the lines?

GreenCastleBlock
Frankwho wrote:

Anyways, here's another proof game.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I think there are 12 solutions to this, not just 3.

1.e3 h5 2.Qxh5 Rxh5 3.(pick one: Na3, Nc3, Nf3, Nh3, Ne2, Ke2, Kd1, Be2, Bd3, Bc4, Bb5, Ba6) Rh8 4.(undo White's previous move) d6