Requesting Aid

Hello,
I am a student in the video technology department at North Lake College in Irving, Texas. I am writing a script about two chess players, and would like to request some aid from your members. The story is fairly simple. Two players are playing chess. After some fast paced action, one player announces that they will have checkmate in "x" number of moves. The second player then goes through all the different defensive moves they could make, only to find that none of them would make a difference, only delay the inevitable. Then, the second player notices a pice that has some offensive power, and that taking the offensive would allow them to achieve checkmate in less moves then the originally announced number from the first player. The aid I am requesting is this. While I do love to play chess, I am not a great chess player. I need help coming up with a move list that would lead to the setup I am looking for. What I would need is a move list containing the moves up to the announcement of "Checkmate in 'x' moves." The many defensive variations that lead to no change in the outcome, and the offensive moves that win the game for the other player. I will give credit to the person who comes up with the list, as well as thank your site should you decide that this is a good challenge and are able to provide the required move list. Thank you for your time, and your assistance in this endeavor.

something like that tonydal

If you alter the position somewhat you could use today's puzzle. Could you not?

got a game somewhere like that, say if it was black to move first is checkmate in one but actually is was white to move and managed to win, now the thing is is trying to find it in my junk pile ! lol

Not an easy task buddy.  Would take a long time to set up a position with a mate with white in six but have a mate in 4 with black.  In that situation the mate in 6 would be useless no? Who cares what blacks defensive moves are, they are all wrong except for the mate in 4. THAT is the move. White would be the one who is lost and it doesn't matter what offensive resources he has.  He would have to defend the mate in 4, probably lose material, definitely would lose the mate in 6, and it would be an entirely different game.  Chess is an exceptionally complex game where one unexpected move at any point could change absolutely everything.

To give you an idea of what chess positions are, think on this: Deep blue was capable of calculating 200,000,000 (thats two hundred million) moves per SECOND, with hours of thinking time.  To someone who doesn't play and study chess, beating or even drawing to that machine would seem like an impossible task.  But the fact is that any of the top five players could play for a draw against that computer and get it 9 out of ten times. (play for a draw not a win)