20 Aug 10
Originally posted by skeeter
Very good. After Kc7....a3 is forced ( as are all blacks moves ) then Ba4 and the mate becomes obvious despite the Queening of the 'a' file pawn
skeets
PS.... tried 5 times to 'hidden' this but it seems it can't be accomplished with the edit feature ??
Very good. After Kc7....a3 is forced ( as are all blacks moves ) then Ba4 and the mate becomes obvious despite the Queening of the a file pawn
'Hidden' no likey apostrophes (and, I think, quotation marks).
20 Aug 10
Originally posted by Grampy BobbyTa heaps GB. That must have been it as I actually had it working OK but then thought I should probably mention to ignore the queening pawn threat and it went south after that. Can't edit it out now but perhaps a kindly mod could delete it so as not to spoil it for others??
[hidden]Very good. After Kc7....a3 is forced ( as are all blacks moves ) then Ba4 and the mate becomes obvious despite the Queening of the [b]a file pawn[/hidden]
'Hidden' no likey apostrophes (and, I think, quotation marks).[/b]
skeeter
20 Aug 10
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Originally posted by Mephisto2Simple?!
Here's another one (to test out the 'hidden' thing, lol):
Unbelievable that K+2N vs K+N can win, yet so simple to make it happen in this position. White to move
[fen]4n1k1/8/3NN1K1/8/8/8/8/8 w - - 0 0[/fen]
Puzzle by Johan Nepomuk Berger, 1921
edit. there are multiple solutions, but all the same idea
edit - Ah, following SG's post below I did finally figure it out, great puzzle!
20 Aug 10
Originally posted by Mephisto2
Here's another one (to test out the 'hidden' thing, lol):
Unbelievable that K+2N vs K+N can win, yet so simple to make it happen in this position. White to move
[fen]4n1k1/8/3NN1K1/8/8/8/8/8 w - - 0 0[/fen]
Puzzle by Johan Nepomuk Berger, 1921
edit. there are multiple solutions, but all the same idea
1.Nf7 N-any 2.Nh6+ Kh8 3.Ng5 N-any 4.Ngf7#
The N is there just to stop black from getting stalemated 😛