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This is yet just another place to post any puzzles (created or copied)...I would prefer endgame puzzles...

I'll start it off



Black to mate in up to 4 moves...

(Puzzle From The Usborne Book of Chess Puzzles, by David Norwood)

Edit: There is more than one possibility...

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Originally posted by wittywonka
This is yet just another place to post any puzzles (created or copied)...I would prefer endgame puzzles...

I'll start it off

[fen]5rk1/6p1/p3p3/4q2p/N1Q5/Pr2b1nP/1P4RK/3NR3[/fen]

Black to mate in up to 4 moves...

(Puzzle From The Usborne Book of Chess Puzzles, by David Norwood)

Edit: There is more than one possibility...
1. Bg1+

if 1. ... Rexg1, 2. Nf1++ Kh1
3. Rxh3+ Rh2
4. Qxh2#

if 1. ... Rgxg1, 2. Nf1++ Kg2 (2. ...Kh1 3. Qh2🙄
3. Qh2#

if 1. ... Kxg1, 2. Qxe1+ Qf1 (2. ... Kh2 3. Qh1🙄
3. Qxf1+ Kh2
4. Qh1#

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Try this one. ilywrin gave this to me. (Been getting quite a few beautiful ones from him/her). I hope you don't mind this, ilywrin!

(G.Andersen, 1915) White to mate in 2:

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Originally posted by ckoh1965
Try this one. ilywrin gave this to me. (Been getting quite a few beautiful ones from him/her). I hope you don't mind this, ilywrin!

(G.Andersen, 1915) White to mate in 2:
[fen]8/2K1Qp1b/2p5/1k6/8/RBp3r1/8/1R6 [/fen]
I know this is not the only way, but here is one possibility...I think

1. Ba4+ Ka5
2. Bd1++

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Originally posted by wittywonka
I know this is not the only way, but here is one possibility...I think

1. Ba4+ Ka5
2. Bd1++
Nah..... surely you didn't think that it's THAT easy!?

If 1. Ba4+ Kc4!

then what? No more mate in two?

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What about 1.Bd5? isn't that #?

no its not.


Now I see, 1.Ra1? 2.Ra5#?

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Originally posted by ckoh1965
Nah..... surely you didn't think that it's THAT easy!?

If 1. Ba4+ Kc4!

then what? No more mate in two?
i said i knew it wasn't the only way 🙂

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Originally posted by ckoh1965
Try this one. ilywrin gave this to me. (Been getting quite a few beautiful ones from him/her). I hope you don't mind this, ilywrin!

(G.Andersen, 1915) White to mate in 2:
[fen]8/2K1Qp1b/2p5/1k6/8/RBp3r1/8/1R6 [/fen]
Would this work?

1. Qe5+ Kb4
2. Qa5++

Edit: Oops...didnt see (1...c5)

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Here's a puzzle created by yours truly 🙂

White to move and mate in two...

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Originally posted by ChessJester
What about 1.Bd5? isn't that #?

no its not.


Now I see, 1.Ra1? 2.Ra5#?
By that, did you mean:

1. Rba1 f4
2. Ra5++

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Originally posted by wittywonka
i said i knew it wasn't the only way 🙂
What I'm saying is your answer is not even a correct solution. We are looking for a mate in 2, and your answer was not mate in 2.

Had you given a correct solution, but a different one than what I had expected, then I suppose you could say "it wasn't the only way".

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Originally posted by ckoh1965
What I'm saying is your answer is not even a correct solution. We are looking for a mate in 2, and your answer was not mate in 2.

Had you given a correct solution, but a different one than what I had expected, then I suppose you could say "it wasn't the [b]only way".[/b]
Alright...Even though my solution would have worked, given black MIGHT have moved 1. ... Ka5, I don't mean to argue...

Are the moves I listed later (reworded from chessjester) infallible?

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Here's another puzzle (more like a brainteaser)

Place the black king on the board so white can mate in three moves.

HINT: This problem is a helpmate...

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Originally posted by wittywonka
Alright...Even though my solution would have worked, given black MIGHT have moved 1. ... Ka5, I don't mean to argue...

Are the moves I listed later (reworded from chessjester) infallible?
A correct solution should be when whatever black does, white would mate him anyway.

Oh you gave another solution? Where? I must have missed it.

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Originally posted by wittywonka
By that, did you mean:

1. Rba1 f4
2. Ra5++
Doesn't make sense to me. That 1. ... f4 is an illegal move. The black pawn can't make the f4 move..... try again.