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Joke problem to frustrate your chess club with

Joke problem to frustrate your chess club with

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White to play and mate in 2.

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Originally posted by doodinthemood
[fen]3k1BQr/3N4/4BK2/8/8/8/8/8[/fen]

White to play and mate in 2.
I think it is actually mate in 3

1.Qg3 Rxf8+ 2.Nxf8 Ke8 3.Qb8#

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Originally posted by tomtom232
I think it is actually mate in 3

1.Qg3 Rxf8+ 2.Nxf8 Ke8 3.Qb8#

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Hence "joke problem" white to play and mate in 2.

= silly answer abound.

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1. Rh1
2. Bd6#

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Originally posted by Peakite
1. Rh1
2. Bd6#
Or, series mate in 2: 1.Qg3 2.Qb8#

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good ideas certainly, the answer I had in mind was a normal move order.

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1.Qg3 any (besides Rxf8+) 2.Qb8#

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Answer I was looking for - 1. Be9+! Black only has 1... Kd9 and 2. Bf7#

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Originally posted by doodinthemood
Answer I was looking for - 1. Be9+! Black only has 1... Kd9 and 2. Bf7#
Has anyone ever been booed out of a chess club before? 😀

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I have a very appreciative (or tolerant?) club 😉

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Originally posted by tomtom232
1.Qg3 any (besides Rxf8+) 2.Qb8#
or except Rh6+

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Originally posted by Gastel
or except Rh6+
yeah... that too.

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Originally posted by doodinthemood
Answer I was looking for - 1. Be9+! Black only has 1... Kd9 and 2. Bf7#
Where is problem? The king just have to use his turbo mega-bombastic jetpack to flight to ahg476984, chess quadrat yet undiscovered? no?

Seriously, very nice problem-joke. I like how king can't escape to 10th row either :-)

The solution would involve some serious lateral thinking. Anybody from your club managed to solve it? 😛

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Yes, suspiciously enough. After seing my "white to play and mate in a half" where the answer was just to pick up a piece and not put it down, people have got used to my type of puzzles 😉

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