Chess Puzzle #4235

CHESS PUZZLE #4235

Added by:	kingdawar
Added on:	10-May-08
Description:	Composed by Aleksandr Andreew, Twoja Sudba 1996.
Difficulty:	online chess puzzle #4235
Attempts:	1874
Solved:	1040 (55%)


White to move, mate in 2

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eugen1943
12-Feb-12, 05:39

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neat

After spending a couple minutes looking at ways of checking black and realizing there wasn't a solution it was apparent that the pawn push limited black to only a few moves all of which resulted in mate.

elfuego51
12-Feb-12, 06:44

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Enjoyable for a daily easy puzzle

Always better when the path isn't so clear.

hcajg77
12-Feb-12, 07:36

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c4 pawn

I first lookes at Qa5+, but saw that that didn't work. I then wondered why the pawn on c4 was there. I figured it had to be part of the solution, because otherwise why would it be there? Once I figured that out, it was easy. Easy "easy puzzles" aren't a problem though.

afghanknight
12-Feb-12, 07:40

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Enjoyed It

Yes, the extra pawn on C4 gives a hint. I also liked this one as depending on black's move, you are forced to under promote with a knight. pretty interesting.

macheide
12-Feb-12, 08:14

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A nice puzzle.

hillf1024
12-Feb-12, 09:30

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I did not think it so "Easy"

marvin2
12-Feb-12, 09:33

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Nice puzzle

Please tell me if I'm wrong but this is a nice example of zugzwang.

After moving the pawn, whatever the black moves its position becomes worse.

fezzik
12-Feb-12, 12:10

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57% get this right, but it's only 2 stars?

I liked this puzzle, it took me a few moments to solve.

For a two-move puzzle, this was quite challenging. I gave it three stars, then looked at the average solve rate. 57% were able to solve this. That sounds pretty solidly Average, 3-star territory to me.

fezzik
12-Feb-12, 12:13

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Regarding Zugzwang

A move is zugzwang if "black" could survive by doing nothing. In this case there is no mate in one if black didn't move, so for the purposes of the puzzle, yes it is zugzwang!

browni3141
12-Feb-12, 12:31

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@royoetting and everyone else interested: Composed mate in two puzzles almost never begin with a check or capture. That's a good thing to know when solving.

macheide
12-Feb-12, 15:42

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fezzik

Please, see the puzzles I have posted and then tell me if you find a correlation between the difficulty of the puzzles and the number of stars they have.

chessikins
12-Feb-12, 19:35

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Compact..

Nice little pawn move puzzle that retains the waiting move principal..black courts his own disaster..

aero
12-Feb-12, 20:18

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Very pretty

Easy only because there're so few pieces on the board. Very neat puzzle. Thank you!

stbou
12-Feb-12, 20:44

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to fezzik

only 57% got it right, and 43 % got it wrong and ask themselves how they could have missed it! this kind of puzzle seems really easy after you have seen the solution.

the average is very high here, on gameknot.

eknix
27-Oct-12, 18:28

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the fact that black doesn't have any immediate checks is a hint that the correct solution is likely to involve a non check move

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