Chess Puzzle #5162

CHESS PUZZLE, FEN r1bBk2r/ppp2pp1/1bnp3p/3N4/4n3/1N6/PPP2PPP/R2QKB1R b KQkq -

Added by:	kingdawar
Added on:	10-Jul-08
Description:
Difficulty:	chess puzzle r1bBk2r/ppp2pp1/1bnp3p/3N4/4n3/1N6/PPP2PPP/R2QKB1R b KQkq -
Attempts:	1032
Solved:	687 (66%)


Black to move, mate in 5

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cliveva
27-Oct-12, 13:17

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pawn can mate at 5

kingdawar
27-Oct-12, 13:22

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Does not mate because of the bishop on d8

brkst
16-Jul-15, 00:47

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I found this one easier than today´s easy puzzle.

misterkool
16-Jul-15, 01:08

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Super easy and insignificant

I should agree with peeople who say this is , if not easier, but at least as easy as the easy puzzle.Probably Mr. Kingdawar, the moderator, wanted to give you a break by selecting two insignificant problems.Who knows
One star is good.

reversion
16-Jul-15, 07:54

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kingdawar never has been a moderator on chess puzzles(Even himself admitted that somewhere), though it could be a good idea from gameknot's staff to promote him to this positon. A lot of bad puzzles could be removed instantly.

Like brkst said, this one was also the easiest from today's 2 puzzles. It was a good king hunt after 0...Nf6xe4 1.Bh4xd8.

fezzik
16-Jul-15, 08:43

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Another classic Q sac!

I'm guessing that most people just made a bunch of sensible checks and stumbled into the mate.

Try this next time you see a mate in 5 puzzle: Work out exactly which piece and what square the mate will be on BEFORE moving any pieces!

kingdawar
16-Jul-15, 10:14

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I found the full game; players and date unclear

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 exd4 4. Nxd4 Bc5 5. Nb3 Bb6 6. Nc3 Nf6 7. Bg5 h6 8. Bh4 d6 9. Nd5 Nxe4 10. Bxd8 (and it seems it was played out all the way to mate, perhaps white accepted black's conditional moves in lieu of resignation after somehow missing Nxe4)

White's called Wilting, Witling or Wittling, and I cannot find any chess information on any of them. The same scoresheet is also credited to Zhurakovsky - Kostromin and Hurelbaatar - Drakeford. It is possible the game was played in 1985, while the tournament started in 1982. I'm just not sure, I can't find a reliable source.

mbomb007
16-Jul-15, 10:24

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misterkool, The puzzles are selected automatically by an algorithm according to their star rating. The rating had to have been 4 stars or higher prior to being a daily puzzle. See the discussion here for the full quote I got from GameKnot: gameknot.com

misterkool
16-Jul-15, 10:52

Comment deleted on 16-Jul-15, 18:42

kicorse
16-Jul-15, 15:03

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mbomb007. Thanks for finding that out!

It was always going to be an automated process, but it's good to know the details, and to have a ready answer for those who complain about selection and the easy/hard distinction. Who knows, maybe we'll even go back to talking about more interesting aspects of the puzzle in these comments.... (One detail that's hard to reconcile with the answer is that the easy and hard puzzles sometimes swap during the day, and this seems to occur when the hard puzzle obtains a higher solve-rate than the easy puzzle. But it's not terribly important.)

As for today's puzzle, its main value is that it's result of a trap in a common opening. Plenty of games in both the World and Gameknot databases have reached the position before 9. Nd5? in the game posted by kingdawar above. I have vague memories of this trap (or a very similar one) from the first book on chess I ever read as a child.

soulpower74
16-Jul-15, 16:45

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Have to admit

Did not see the final knight mate when I started the problem assuming g5+ would be sufficient .

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