Mate in one

By Tartakower (possibly)

Originally posted by doodinthemood
[fen]r7/kPR5/8/1K6/8/8/8/8[/fen]
By Tartakower (possibly)

Pawn completes capture on c8 (you do have a black piece in your hand right?) =R#

Originally posted by wolfgang59
Pawn completes capture on c8 (you do have a black piece in your hand right?) =R#

b8=black knight

Seeing as everyone has weird ideas, what about... shifting the rook and pawn a space each to the right and then promotion to R or Q? Works for me.

Originally posted by curseknight
Seeing as everyone has weird ideas, what about... shifting the rook and pawn a space each to the right and then promotion to R or Q? Works for me.

At one time, the rules did not specify that you could only promote to a piece of your own color. Several 'joke' problems exploited this obvious loophole; perhaps this was one of them.

Originally posted by SwissGambit
At one time, the rules did not specify that you could only promote to a piece of your own color. Several 'joke' problems exploited this obvious loophole; perhaps this was one of them.

this nitpicker ( we germans prefer "currant pooper"😉 lawer finding, that you are only allowed to promote to a piece of your color, is not so old.
I think thats 30 or 40 years ago, like the "very long castling" or Pam-Krabbé-castling.
So Tartakover cannot be the author - he died 1956

Two books I have give the following problem:

J. Zukertort


Mate in 1 move

You already know the solution...

Originally posted by David113
Two books I have give the following problem:

J. Zukertort
[fen]8/5RPk/6N1/6K1/8/8/8/8[/fen]

Mate in 1 move

You already know the solution...

What is it?? 😉