Interesting. Useful for restricting your opponent's king in the endgame. Have you checked the engine's bests move?
Easy tactics puzzle
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I generally eschew checking my games with a chess engine, unless I'm looking for something specific.
But in this case, I was just using solid chess principals to make sure I didn't have to deal with nailing the opponent's king down to be mated.
Considering all the poor king can do is shuffle between 2 squares after the tactic is solved, it makes mating the king pretty easy.
This is the sort of tactic useful for blitz chess, when a player is trying to keep complications to a bare minimum.
I like to post puzzles from my games that are geared toward beginners that show something useful.
In this case, it shows how a bishop pair can work together.
In another puzzle. My mate-in-1 from the laundromat, it shows how several pieces can work together... plus I thought that the actual mate being delivered by a most unlikely piece made it lool like a chess composition and not from an actual game. 😋
nice
The goal of this problem, which was in a game I played, is to LOCK DOWN the opponent's king. That is, prevent the white king from wandering around the board. This is a two move tactic.