[Puzzle Road] One Queen. Two Queens. A checkmate! (P21)

Welcome to puzzle road!

I am truly happy of the moves I played in a blitz game! These moves are the one you need to find today to solve the puzzle! Endgame. Promotion. Checkmate. Everything in only one puzzle! Not very complicated to find, but I still needed a few seconds to calculate it and check it was really a good move!

Promotion of a pawn is probably the main concept of an endgame and the checkmates often results of it. And today, the checkmate is extremely beautiful! As always, I explain you the moves in my blog.

21/ One queen. Two queens. A checkmate! (Topic: pawn promotion)

First move: f5 (!!)

Logically, a passed pawn needs to be pushed and to hit the 8^th rank! In this position, the black king is trapped in a corner of the board and blocks his own pawn!

Second move: f6!

Followed by a2, f7 and h5 (!)

Third move: King b3 (!!)

If f8, we have a draw… we need to give the black king a new square. Black play King b1.

Fourth move: f8 = Queen!

Finally, if King c1, take the pawn, and if a = Queen, checkmate with Queen f1!

See you tomorrow for the next puzzle!
@Kyu13

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