Nyarlathotep's Puzzle Dungeon #3

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nyarlathotep

Sorry for the delay of posting this one everyone!

 

I went to see Transformers last night and didn't realize how long it was.  My Palm T|X also arrived today, so I've been playing around with that quite a bit (currently waiting on my HIARCS registration to finalize, at which point I'll do a full review).

 

Anyways, on to the fun!

 

Same rules as always:

 

1.) White must mate in 3 moves.  No exceptions.  Assume that you have 1m30s on the clock and each move takes you 30s to make (whether it actually takes you 30 seconds, 5 minutes, 10 minutes or 10 seconds, just assume it takes 30s).  If you don't mate in 3, it's game over and black wins.

 

2.) There is only one key move to obtain mate in 3.  (If you find others, please let me know Innocent )

 

3.) No first key move will result in a check, a capture, or involve the promotion of a pawn.

 

 

 

 

 You can find previous Dungeon Puzzles below:

Puzzle #1

Puzzle#2 

 

vinodagnihotri
Nice puzzle. I will be honest that I tried for 15 min but couldn't solve it....Please give the move sequences for variation 1... Kd4 also. I am not able to figure out the force checkmate for black's this response. 
Darren96
ok
nyarlathotep

Sure thing Vino Laughing  As a clue, it does start out with the same key move:

 

 

 

Here's another variation of the same puzzle, still with the same key move:

 

 

vinodagnihotri
Great! Thanks for the 1...Kd4 move variation. I was able to find the variation for 1...Kf4. I wasn't able to close the Kd4 variation only. Good puzzle. Curiously waiting for your next puzzle :-)
TonightOnly
I thought the 1...d4 continuation was the easiest to close of the three.