Mating with minor pieces
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1. Kg6 Kg8 2. Bh6 then checkmate in 7?
You missed the quickest mate (in 7 instead of 8); the knight should be aiming for another destination.Here's one possibility of several:
bouncing_check wrote:
You missed the quickest mate (in 7 instead of 8); the knight should be aiming for another destination.Here's one possibility of several:
So I did. Whenever trying to force mate with a knight and bishop, I've always aimed to trap the king behind the bishop and king like this and mate with the knight, after forcing it into a corner the same colour as the bishop's squares. I wonder if the way you found would be possible in a corner the bishop doesn't control. Also, it seems a bit silly that you can't give a puzzle multiple "correct" solutions when a piece could take different routes to the same square.