Finish him!

Show me your mate in ... problems from real games.

Black to play, mate in 3:

Originally posted by hunterknox
Show me your mate in ... problems from real games.

Black to play, mate in 3:

[fen]r1b2rk1/1p3pN1/7q/pP6/P3p1n1/4P1p1/1B1PNPKb/R2Q1R2 b - - 0 24[/fen]

Nice. I had a solution, but it only works in four... because it allows the Nh5 delay.

Richard

Got it. Was sure 1st move had to be Nxe3, but as soon as I tried other ideas got it quickly. Nice mate. Did you spot it in the game?

Ive got it, found it quite quickly.

Thought I had found it quite quickly, but had to rethink, found the solution now though.

Originally posted by tiggeronvrb
Got it. Was sure 1st move had to be Nxe3, but as soon as I tried other ideas got it quickly. Nice mate. Did you spot it in the game?

Unusually I did spot it in the game. 5 minute blitz too. But that's not the point - who else has got a mate in ... they want to share?

Ok, I'll go again.

Black to play. Mate in 3 to 5, depending how spiteful white's feeling.

Originally posted by hunterknox
Ok, I'll go again.

Black to play. Mate in 3 to 5, depending how spiteful white's feeling.

[fen]5k2/1b4bQ/p3p1Pp/1p1pP1p1/1P1P4/P1q2PPK/2r5/R3R3 b - - 0 34[/fen]

Good one - took me a few goes to get it, it wasn't as intuitive as it looked.

Here's one that came up in a recent game for me. Black to move and mate in 6 moves or less - it took me 6 in the game. White has a number of options after Black's next move but I believe the mate cannot be stopped.