White to play and mate in three moves.
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#Chess Puzzle Worth Sharing 13
White to play and mate in three moves (two correct move orders.)
#Chess Puzzle Worth Sharing 9
White to move and mate in 3.
#Chess Puzzle Worth Sharing 5
Black to move and mate in 3.
Puzzle Worthy Position 32
Puzzle Worthy Position 21
Tonight we see a classic example of the King’s Gambit gone wrong via a common blunder by white in the Falkbeer Counter-Gambit. [Event “SocialChess”] [Site “Internet”] [Date “2016.05.10”] [White “@o@ (1507)”] [Black “Chris Torres”] [Result “0-1”] 1.e4 e5 2.f4 d5 3.fxe5 Qh4+ 4.Ke2 Qxe4+ 5.Kf2 Bc5+ 6.Kg3 Qxe5+ 7.Kf3 Qf5+ 8.Ke2 Qe4# 0-1 *
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.
Pawn Sacrifice: Bobby Fischer Chess Puzzle 2
In today’s puzzle, we try to find an improvement over Fischer’s Qd6+. The unplayed improvement is actually a forced mate in 3 that Bobby Fischer missed over the board. I imagine that the then 15-year-old Fischer was so caught up in the excitement of slaying the dragon that he failed to search for a betterContinueContinue reading “Pawn Sacrifice: Bobby Fischer Chess Puzzle 2”
Chess Puzzle: A Beautiful Mate in Three
Winning is not difficult. Doing it in just three moves… that takes skill. Puzzle by Andre Cheron, 1936
A Fun Mate in 3 from the year 1297!
Puzzle composed by Abu’n-Na’Am