Checkmate puzzle for beginners

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Avatar of laurengoodkindchess

Hi!  My name is Lauren Goodkind and I'm a chess YouTuber to help beginners out: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCP5SPSG_sWSYPjqJYMNwL_Q 

Black to move.  How can black checkmate white in one move?  Hint: there are three ways to do this!  I encourage you to find all three ways to checkmate white! 

This position was taken from a game that I recently played. 

Avatar of novaviv222
Qh3# / Rh3# / Qh5#
Avatar of laurengoodkindchess

There's actually 4 ways to give checkmate.  I accidentally overlooked one.  

Avatar of Voiiiii
Would e8=Q be checkmate?
Avatar of sunkara1

Q f4 also?

Avatar of oldretiredsailor

Rh3#, Qh3#, Qg3#, Qh5#, Qf4#  (I stole f4 from sunkara1)

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laurengoodkindchess wrote:

There's actually 4 ways to give checkmate.  I accidentally overlooked one.  

Or two :-)

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oldretiredsailor wrote:

Rh3#, Qh3#, Qg3#, Qh5#, Qf4#  (I stole f4 from sunkara1)

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Avatar of PeskyStand

there are seven ways, right? I may be not seeing something but isn't there Qh5# / Qxh3# / Qg4# / Qxf4# / Rxh3# / e1=Q# / e1=B#

Avatar of WowThisIsWeird

I found Qh5#, Qxf4#, and e8=Q#. But not the other ones.

Avatar of RicardoMakoto

Hi