Black to play and mate in 5 moves.
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#Chess Puzzle Worth Sharing 24
What is white’s best continuation?
#Chess Puzzle Worth Sharing 21
What is black’s crushing move that leads to mate?
#Chess Puzzle Worth Sharing 20
White to play and mate in 5 moves.
#Chess Puzzle Worth Sharing 6
What is black’s best move?
#Chess Puzzle Worth Sharing 4
White to move and mate in 4!
Puzzle Worthy Position 29
Black to move.
Puzzle Worthy Position 16
Black can blow-up white’s position with the correct combination.
Puzzle Worthy Position 15
If it wasn’t for the black king’s d7 escape square, white could obviously mate in just one move. Even with that small annoyance, white can mate in 5.
Puzzle Worthy Position 10
Can you find the winning combination for white? For bonus points prove that white has a mate in 7 moves.
Puzzle Worthy Position 7
Puzzle Worthy Position 5
White to play and checkmate in 5 moves.
Puzzle Worthy Position 4
What is black’s best move?
Spassky vs Fischer Chess Puzzle from Allan Beardsworth
Part of my chess education: 1…Ba4! and if 2 Qa4, Qe4 is a double attack on e1 and g2: 0-1… Read the full article via http://ift.tt/1Y3olkF
Puzzle Worthy Position 2
Puzzle Worthy Position
Sam Loyd Puzzles are Infuriatingly Fantastic!
It took me exactly 16:22 to solve this seemingly simple chess problem! White to move and mate in three by Sam Loyd, 1868.
It’s Your Move: daily chess puzzle # 157
Examine all biffs yet again works. 1…Bf2+! wins a pawn after 2 Qf2 Qc4; so instead 2 Kf2, when 2…Qc5+ 3 Kf1 Ng4! and the threat of 4…Nh2 mate means that White can’t move his Bc4, so that Ne3+ next move captures it. Or 2….Ng4+ is probably stronger, with 3 Kg1 being met by 3…Qc5+ContinueContinue reading “It’s Your Move: daily chess puzzle # 157”
A crafty stalemate
From page 57 of Hendricks Move First, Think Later, Chapter 6 Pattern-like Knowledge. The following position is a good example of how we look for patterns in chess and fail to see solutions that do not fit into those. See if you can find the draw for white here, I know I certainly couldn’t…. Read the fullContinueContinue reading “A crafty stalemate”
It’s Your Move: daily chess puzzle # 153
Finding that nothing ‘clicked’ after 1 Nf6+, my first thoughts were to exploit Black’s near zugzwang, improve the rooks, and then ‘do something’. But I couldn’t see what to do here either, until, back to ever reliable Examine All Biffs, I saw 1 Na5! and its point…. Read the full article via http://ift.tt/1NIg672