can you post the diagram?
mistake in polgar book "chess"
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The position and information given in the book are correct. What you have probably missed is castling is possible.
O.K.....you're right....I see that checkmate is possible in two with castling.
BTW, I just happened to read an amazon review of this book and the reviewer is a chess coach in a school and he claimed to have found one position in the book that was incorrect......I couldn't believe that just the day before my son and I had seen this position and didn't see the mate in two and that by coincidence this was the same one that the reviewer was referring to.....I guess it wasn't this one after all.
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O.K.....you're right....I see that checkmate is possible in two with castling.
BTW, I just happened to read an amazon review of this book and the reviewer is a chess coach in a school and he claimed to have found one position in the book that was incorrect......I couldn't believe that just the day before my son and I had seen this position and didn't see the mate in two and that by coincidence this was the same one that the reviewer was referring to.....I guess it wasn't this one after all.
I may be wrong but I can't seen to reconcile the answer for one of the problems in the "Chess" book by Laszlo Polgar (the giant book with 5334 positions).
I may just not be looking at it right so please forgive me if I'm wrong (I don't want to offend anyone).
Anyway, it's position # 1939 under "mate in two". (on p 381 in my edition).
If anyone out there has the book and wants to look at this position and see if the answer makes a mate in two.....please let me know as I have stared at and studied this one several times and I still don't see it.