[Puzzle Road] Without any good moves! (P26)

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A checkmate can sometimes take long and needs a few preparatory moves to be played. In this puzzle, Black cannot directly checkmate by just easily checking the king. Instead of that, you need to correctly develop a new piece and take control another time of a square that White cannot defend enough to survive to your checkmate attack!

We often say that you need at least 3 pieces to make a correct checkmate. This puzzle is the perfect example for this. Indeed, the one rook took already possession of the h-column and the second can come to control the g-column if your bishop would not stand on f8.... And your bishop is inactive. You need to put him on a better square!

26/ Without any good moves! (Topic: preparatory moves)

THE move: Bishop d6 (!!)

By moving the Bishop there, you give yourself the possibility to play Rook g8. Moreover, you have now two attacks on the h2-square (Rook and Bishop), defended only by the lost king. White can only play Ne4 with the idea to come on g2, but this is not enough to rescue the game on their side.

Now, we have many mate variants. Let’s start with the easiest one:

Then, we have the variant with Ne4:

If White would have played Rfe1, instead of Ne4:

I hope you liked this funny checkmate possibilities! Have fun in playing chess!
@Kyu13

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