Chess puzzles should be fun!

Forget the insanely difficult retrograde analysis and cunning but unrealistic mates in two. Let's have some simple but fun problems 😀



White to play and checkmate every king on the board in 1

Originally posted by doodinthemood
Forget the insanely difficult retrograde analysis and cunning but unrealistic mates in two. Let's have some simple but fun problems 😀

[fen]1K5R/2Bk1k2/2k1pPk1/2pk1k1N/2k3kP/1R1NkkP1/2B2p2/3R1Q2[/fen]

White to play and checkmate every king on the board in 1

hahaha, great notation.

Originally posted by strokem1
1. Ne5##########

Originally posted by Bifrost
How does that checkmate the White King? 😕

Originally posted by doodinthemood
...and cunning but unrealistic mates in two.

Originally posted by strokem1
hmmm.... that is a good question... I guess I need to rethink this problem then...

Originally posted by SwissGambit
This is a much more realistic alternative. 🙄

Originally posted by doodinthemood
Yeah! If you want to be unrealistic, go the whole hog. And who's to say this couldn't happen in a game? :p

Well this is fun.



White to play and mate all of his own kings in 1, andernach chess.

Originally posted by doodinthemood
Well this is fun.

[fen]2RBbrq1/k1K1KPr1/3KK3/1bRPPK2/4Q3/8/8/8 w - - 0 1[/fen]

White to play and mate all of his own kings in 1, andernach chess.

Originally posted by doodinthemood
Well this is fun.

[fen]2RBbrq1/k1K1KPr1/3KK3/1bRPPK2/4Q3/8/8/8 w - - 0 1[/fen]

White to play and mate all of his own kings in 1, andernach chess.

Originally posted by Bifrost
fxe8=bN#

Whatever andernach chess is, I assume it allows colour changing pieces and multiple kings.

Originally posted by SwissGambit
It'd have to be a game that is neither chess nor Rex Multiplex [pawns can promote to K].

[fen]3kk3/QB2k2N/Qpp1k2N/Qpp1k3/Qpp1k3/QN2k2N/4k2N/1K1kk3 w - - 0 1[/fen]
Mate in 1
Atomic Chess with Checkmate and extra-set pieces allowed.

Originally posted by SwissGambit
Oh, snap! Pawns in the blast radius don't explode. Fortuitously, the masterpiece can yet be saved:

[fen]3kk3/QB2k2N/Qrr1k2N/Qrr1k3/Qrr1k3/QN2k2N/4k2N/1K1kk3 w - - 0 1[/fen]
Mate in 1
Atomic Chess