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#3 - Moderate

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Originally posted by Nowakowski
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[fen]5r1k/1ppnr1pp/p1qp3N/4N3/2QP4/P6b/1P3PPP/4R2K w - - 1 1 [/fen]
Straightforward variation on Philidor's theme.

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Originally posted by Nowakowski
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[fen]5r1k/1ppnr1pp/p1qp3N/4N3/2QP4/P6b/1P3PPP/4R2K w - - 1 1 [/fen]
1.Qg8+ Rxg8 2.Nef7+ Rxf7 3.Nxf7#

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Originally posted by chessicle
Straightforward variation on Philidor's theme.
Strange that someone who came within a whisker of drawing with the great Weyerfritz (*) would consider this artificial and easy-to-solve puzzle to be "moderate".

(*) Game 6698090 It's illuminating to play through the last twenty or so moves of this one on a tablebase server such as http://www.lokasoft.nl/tbweb.aspx.

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I agree, this one is easy. It is very easy. It is the kind of checkmate that many people know about but rarely get the chance to execute.

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Originally posted by Fat Lady
Strange that someone who came within a whisker of drawing with the great Weyerfritz (*) would consider this artificial and easy-to-solve puzzle to be "moderate".

(*) Game 6698090 It's illuminating to play through the last twenty or so moves of this one on a tablebase server such as http://www.lokasoft.nl/tbweb.aspx.
yeah took me all of 1 sec to see the smothered mate