Go back
Cheap shots

Cheap shots

Only Chess

Vote Up
Vote Down

Black to move and mate in five

Vote Up
Vote Down



Black to move and mate in four

Vote Up
Vote Down



Black to move and mate in four (or five)

Vote Up
Vote Down



White to move and do something dirty

1 edit
Vote Up
Vote Down

E-cookie points for the first one to PM me all four solutions... this is an exercise in trying to be as cunning as heinzkat 😏

Feel free to add some of your own cracking combinations

1 edit
Vote Up
Vote Down

Originally posted by heinzkat
Black to move and mate in five

[fen]1nrn2k1/3q1pb1/1p5p/p2pPN2/3P2N1/P2QB2P/1r6/R4RK1[/fen]
black doesn't look very good here. is it white to move? or is it some kind of black to move and hope white blunders type of problem?

Vote Up
Vote Down

Be as cunning as heinzkat... Use Your Imagination

It's got nothing to do with hoping, it all really happened

on the interwebz

1 edit
Vote Up
Vote Down

Originally posted by heinzkat
Be as cunning as heinzkat... Use Your Imagination

It's got nothing to do with hoping, it all really happened

[hidden]on the interwebz[/hidden]
in that case,
1...Rcc2 2.Nf6+ Kh8!! 3.Nxd7 Rg2+ 4.Kh1 Rh2+ 4.Kg1 Rg2#

2 edits
Vote Up
Vote Down

3. ... Rh1+ looks intruiging to me

Also I said mate in five, not in four

OK OK, you've got the key move correct, White responded 2. Nxg7 😏

2 edits
Vote Up
Vote Down

yeah I'm drunk and wrote the thing blindfold. should be ok now.

edit: 2.Nxg7 Qxg4 should kind of transpose to the above mate.

1 edit
Vote Up
Vote Down

delete

Vote Up
Vote Down

Originally posted by heinzkat
[fen]r4r2/pb2kp1Q/1p1qNpBp/3Pb3/8/1P6/P4PP1/2RR3K[/fen]

Black to move and mate in four
this is kind of tricky. 1...Rc1 2.Nxf8 Qxd5!! 3.Rxd5 Rxc1#

1 edit
Vote Up
Vote Down

Originally posted by philidor position
delete
Good try but not the solution (this one is the trickiest of the bunch)

3 edits
Vote Up
Vote Down

Originally posted by heinzkat
[fen]3r1rk1/5pp1/pn2p2p/2q1P3/1pP2P1n/1P3P2/BB2Q2P/RN5K[/fen]

Black to move and mate in four (or five)
1...Rd8+ 2.Qxd8 Nf7+ 3.Kg1 Nxd8+ and mate soon.


oh my god, this is what happens when you solve puzzles drunk.

ok 2nd try:
1...Rd8+ 2.Qxd8 Qf2 3.Qg1 Qf3+ and mate.

Vote Up
Vote Down

Originally posted by philidor position
[hidden]1...Rd8+ 2.Qxd8 Nf7+ 3.Kg1 Nxd8+ and mate soon.[/hidden]

oh my god, this is what happens when you solve puzzles drunk.
Nf7+, we've got a winner 😛