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18 Nov 23
18 Nov 23
@bigdogg saidThere are a lot of mates in two
[fen]Nk4bR/N4Q2/8/8/8/P7/KPP5/3q2BB w - - 0 1[/fen]
White to move
Edit: I don't know who composed it.
(Rxg8+ Qd8 Rxd8#; Bh2+ Qd6 Bxd6#; Qxg8+ Qd8 Qxd8🙄
If we look for a mate in one, we have to give mate from a small distance, so that the Queen can't be interposed. Since the rook can only ive check by taking the bishop it is out. The Queen is pinned as has been pointet out, so she is out. The white bishop can't check, soit is out. The black bishop could check, but the Queen can be interposed, so this is out. The Knight on a2 could check, but Nc6+ Kxa8...the other Knight can't check. So I give up.
18 Nov 23
@BigDogg
There's alot of pinning going on there.
The white queen is pinned to the diagonal, but can stilll move along it.
The black bishop has the white queen pinned to the diagonal but cannot capture it because it too is pinned by the white rook.
An interesting one!
25 Nov 23
@greenpawn34 saidJust curious GP, but how do you manage to search all of the games here?
I'm trying to find an RHP game that matches this. An OTB game comes to mind but I cannot recall it.
Is there something that allows you to set up a position and then it will scan all the games to find a match? That's the only thing that would make sense to me.