white to mate in 3, could be tricky

TheBloop

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20 Dec 05

TheBloop

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20 Dec 05

this is a nice little problem, it is not a misprint, and there is a solution...

White to mate in 3.

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20 Dec 05

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Originally posted by TheBloop
this is a nice little problem, it is not a misprint, and there is a solution...

[fen]7k/3p2pP/3PB1P1/4PpK1/5P2/8/8/8 w - - 0 1[/fen]

White to mate in 3.

Black's last move had to be 0...f7-f5, so White can mate by 1.exf6 e.p. gxf6+ 2.Kh6 f5 3.g7#

EDIT: or 1...dxe6 2.f7 ~ 3.f8Q#

TheBloop

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20 Dec 05

good job...deducing Black's last move is, of course, essential to solving this one...

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20 Dec 05

Originally posted by TheBloop
good job...deducing Black's last move is, of course, essential to solving this one...

easiest puzzle ever when you see its whites move and black had to have just played the pawn.

trallphaz

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20 Dec 05

i think this is already stalemate because blacks king cant move anywhere because of the G and H file pawn structure. also no matter what pawn you take out with your bishop the others will be locked up and his king cant movee, creating stalemate

Peakite

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20 Dec 05

But by capturing the f-pawn en-passant, black then has two possible legal moves as BDP has already explained. So therefore not stalemate, avoiding this is something which needed to be considered.