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Simple, but instructive. White to play and win



Author: G. Zakhodjakin ,1932

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Very good. After Kc7....a3 is forced ( as are all blacks moves ) then Ba4 and the mate becomes obvious despite the Queening of the 'a' file pawn

skeets

PS.... tried 5 times to 'hidden' this but it seems it can't be accomplished with the edit feature ??

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Originally posted by skeeter

Very good. After Kc7....a3 is forced ( as are all blacks moves ) then Ba4 and the mate becomes obvious despite the Queening of the 'a' file pawn

skeets

PS.... tried 5 times to 'hidden' this but it seems it can't be accomplished with the edit feature ??
Very good. After Kc7....a3 is forced ( as are all blacks moves ) then Ba4 and the mate becomes obvious despite the Queening of the a file pawn



'Hidden' no likey apostrophes (and, I think, quotation marks).

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Originally posted by Grampy Bobby
[hidden]Very good. After Kc7....a3 is forced ( as are all blacks moves ) then Ba4 and the mate becomes obvious despite the Queening of the [b]a file pawn[/hidden]


'Hidden' no likey apostrophes (and, I think, quotation marks).[/b]
Ta heaps GB. That must have been it as I actually had it working OK but then thought I should probably mention to ignore the queening pawn threat and it went south after that. Can't edit it out now but perhaps a kindly mod could delete it so as not to spoil it for others??

skeeter

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Bugger. Just realised that the 'hidey thingy' doesn't work in a 'reply and quote' post so it's pointless. Apols to Meph2 for that.

skeets

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Originally posted by skeeter

Bugger. Just realised that the 'hidey thingy' doesn't work in a 'reply and quote' post so it's pointless. Apols to Meph2 for that.

skeets
Sure it does.

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nice 4 mover.

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Here's another one (to test out the 'hidden' thing, lol):

Unbelievable that K+2N vs K+N can win, yet so simple to make it happen in this position. White to move



Puzzle by Johan Nepomuk Berger, 1921

edit. there are multiple solutions, but all the same idea

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Originally posted by Mephisto2
Here's another one (to test out the 'hidden' thing, lol):

Unbelievable that K+2N vs K+N can win, yet so simple to make it happen in this position. White to move

[fen]4n1k1/8/3NN1K1/8/8/8/8/8 w - - 0 0[/fen]

Puzzle by Johan Nepomuk Berger, 1921

edit. there are multiple solutions, but all the same idea
Simple?!

edit - Ah, following SG's post below I did finally figure it out, great puzzle!

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Originally posted by Mephisto2
Here's another one (to test out the 'hidden' thing, lol):

Unbelievable that K+2N vs K+N can win, yet so simple to make it happen in this position. White to move

[fen]4n1k1/8/3NN1K1/8/8/8/8/8 w - - 0 0[/fen]

Puzzle by Johan Nepomuk Berger, 1921

edit. there are multiple solutions, but all the same idea
1.Nf7 N-any 2.Nh6+ Kh8 3.Ng5 N-any 4.Ngf7#


The N is there just to stop black from getting stalemated 😛