Can you solve this mate in 3?

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BishopTakesH7
White to move, mate in 3:
 
 
Illbtu

This made me realize how bad I am at chess. sad This is really 1 hard nut to crack! Real, real hard! Salutes!

Arisktotle

Good threemover! The position betrays a high degree of symmetry which often asks for a symmetrical key move. Problemists use such information for "strategic solving". For instance we also know a threemover solution does not start with "check" and we won't waste time calculating those - however promising they look. Still, not easy!

Rocky64

Good 19th century problem by Dietrich Wasmann. Database link: https://www.yacpdb.org/#207897

Illbtu
Rocky64 wrote:

Good 19th century problem by Dietrich Wasmann. Database link: https://www.yacpdb.org/#207897

Thanks for the info Rocky however this must be said: "@BishopTakesH7 has just shared a puzzle. He has not claimed the puzzle being his."

I do not know if he has created it though, because sometimes people tend to invent things that has been invented before. I have for example created something that was invented years before I was born: "The Spiral of Ulam."

Ulam Spiral

Rocky64

@Illbtu. Yes, it can be confusing when compositions are presented with no mention of their sources (as is common on chess forums). Here's a blog about these related issues: Attributions, anticipations, and plagiarism in chess compositions.

BishopTakesH7
Rocky64 wrote:

Good 19th century problem by Dietrich Wasmann. Database link: https://www.yacpdb.org/#207897

Thanks.

Illbtu

"Such online content creators earn money by entertaining their followers with these chess positions, so it’s dubious not to acknowledge their real authors."

That problem is by now way beyond Dietrich Wasmann. Or even this 1! "Puzzleicious"? meh

Arisktotle

Credits for artistic achievements are due beyond lifetimes. The artists have families and friends and clubs and countries which are proud of them. What if Rembrandt's work were to end up in the portfolio of an unremarkable austrian painter before WWII?

Illbtu
Arisktotle wrote:

... What if Rembrandt's work were to end up in the portfolio of an unremarkable Australian painter before WWII?

Is that the 1?meh👉 ✋evil /̵͇̿̿/’̿’̿ ̿ ̿̿ ̿̿ ̿̿💥bullet(◣_◢)

... Not to mention his chubby, morphine-ad-dictionary war-hero/heir who had cravings for arts and cyanide, for that matter... 

...Chunder... since... art + cyanide=

WWII hmmm that is "where women glow and men "arts" plunder" right? wink