Games

 /

Entertainment

White to Play and Mate in Three

Pete Tamburro on

Published in Chess Puzzles

It's New Year's Eve and what better problem than one that makes you think you're seeing double! A composition by one of problemdom's real geniuses, T.R. Dawson.


Solution:

1.Bc7 h3 [1...Kf1 2.Bh3+ Ke1 3.Bxa5#; 1...Kd2 2.Bxa5+ Kc1 3.Ba3#] 2.Bxa5+ Kf1 3.Bxh3# If you play out the solutions, the three given all make an "L" with the bishops. Coincidence?

 

Send questions and comments to PTamburro@aol.com.


 

More Chess Puzzles

White to Play

Chess Puzzles /

I can’t recall having so much fun looking at all the variations and the cooperation of the white pieces. It’s a great lesson on the power of the rook lift (going up to b4)as well.

White to Play

Chess Puzzles /

This win by I.A. Horowitz from 1931 has a mating pattern finish that everyone should know. The first move is quite spectacular on its own!

White to Play

Chess Puzzles /

If you have been with this column a while, you will probably get the first move, but how about the follow-ups?

White to Play

Chess Puzzles /

H.R. Agnel once composed a problem that was a mate in six:

1.Rg8+ Rxg8 2.Qd8+ Qxd8 3.Rxd8+ Ke7 4.Rxg8 Nd6 5.Bc5 b6 6.Bxd6#,but there was a shorter mate in five. Can you find it?

Comments

blog comments powered by Disqus

 

Related Channels

Comics

Dana Summers Kevin Siers Non Sequitur Jeff Danziger Rubes Luann
See more