Chess Puzzle #4641

CHESS PUZZLE #4641

Added by:	kingdawar
Added on:	06-Jun-08
Description:	Composed by Albert Barbe, Leipziger Zeitung 1861.
Difficulty:	online chess puzzle #4641
Attempts:	1729
Solved:	873 (50%)


White to move, mate in 3

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sicknero
25-Jun-12, 04:24

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Don't really get this one. Will have to study it later.

mfeeney93
25-Jun-12, 05:48

Comment deleted on 25-Jun-12, 22:43.

bawkfill
25-Jun-12, 06:53

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Why not promote with the King?

hcajg77
25-Jun-12, 08:54

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Another solution

I feel like there should be another solution, but I can't find another one.

pat46
25-Jun-12, 09:03

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Why not the Queen

I have never quite understood why you would promote to a rook when the queen can do the same. Maybe a question of elegance.

jrums14
25-Jun-12, 09:08

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@pat46

Read "mfeeney93's" comment. If black plays those moves white stalemates with 2. Qxh3.

marvin2
25-Jun-12, 09:54

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@pat46

If 1. ..., Kg1, white is obliged to take the h3 pawn to avoid the black king returns to h1 (otherwise it's not possible mate in 3), so white has to under-promote to rook for avoiding the stalemate.

blackmonkey
25-Jun-12, 10:50

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yes! three puzzles in one!

chessikins
25-Jun-12, 15:26

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Nice..

Good exercise in variance of promotion...easy to slip up,but good use of minimal approach..

burtyboy55
25-Jun-12, 17:22

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Why promote to a Rook and not a Queen?

Promoting to a Queen still aloows the same mate - why does the puzzle only allow you to promote to a Rook? Surely this is a flawed chess puzzle.

blackmonkey
25-Jun-12, 17:40

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@burty, there's three possible moves for black on black's second move. if you promote to a queen, black would make the move that would create a stalemate with the same attack by white.

lavacouch
25-Jun-12, 20:24

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Blackmonkey's right (as is mfeeny93),

to make it clear...

1. h8=Q Kg1
2. Qxh3 stalemate

Promoting to rook instead prevents the stalemate and allows a mate in 3

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CHESS PUZZLE #4641