isn't this Lasker's Trap or something?
Checkmate in 3 puzzle
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This puzzle is ruined by 1... Nxe5. White needs to play 1. h3 first.
No, otherwise it couldn't be checkmate because the opportunity for the bishop to take the queen diverts attention that black could take the knight.
SirNinja wrote:
No, otherwise it couldn't be checkmate because the opportunity for the bishop to take the queen diverts attention that black could take the knight.
1. Nxe5 Nxe5. Now what does White do?
This is a horrible trap Nxe5 protect the bishop and gains a free pieace. Game over for white
This is the real thing:
II-Oliveira wrote:
This is the real thing:
Ok first off white is way more then just a pawn up his developed is much more advanced and he has all the mometum but this is only if black completly slack off in delevopement. Like he move the bishop to one spot and then move him back and then move him up to the horse. That the only way you can achievement that position.
Just hit solution to the puzzle. It shows why it works. At the sacrifice of the queen, white can get checkmate.
kevchess75 wrote:
II-Oliveira wrote:
This is the real thing:
Ok first off white is way more then just a pawn up his developed is much more advanced and he has all the mometum but this is only if black completly slack off in delevopement. Like he move the bishop to one spot and then move him back and then move him up to the horse. That the only way you can achievement that position.
Black can achieve this position without wasting moves retreating any piece. As you may see, the mistake was to make three pawn moves while white was developing:
Why wouldn't black just take the queen?
This is the real thing:
Hint: The queen will have to be sacrificed.