Chess Puzzle #5572

CHESS PUZZLE #5572

Added by:	houthakker
Added on:	11-Aug-08
Description:	F.Bos, Schakend Nederland 03 1990. 1st honorable mention Oudejaars opgave 1989.
Difficulty:	online chess puzzle #5572
Attempts:	1052
Solved:	234 (22%)


White to move, mate in 2

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tugger
23-Apr-11, 07:42

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I forgot to click "analyse" and made the key move as my first guess. Much easier than its rating suggests. Nice puzzle though.

joyyan
23-Apr-11, 07:50

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yah its pretty easy 'cause i've done other related puzzle... but neat puzzle, anyways

heberaldo
23-Apr-11, 20:05

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not at all

it was hard

bert17
23-Apr-11, 20:13

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Fairly easy puzzle as you cannot allow the King to escape to e6, which makes Qg4 quite obvious. Nevertheless a pretyy puzzle from my home country.

houthakker
17-May-11, 09:52

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puzzle

Thank guys,

I remember it was very difficult to find a key move that made the 4 mate variations possible.
So I agree the solution is not difficult for chess player used to play endgames as you only will have to "contain" the black king on d5.
The mate variations are fairly difficult, my favorite one is 1.Qg4-bxc6 2.Qg8#

Cheers,
Frank.

bert17
17-May-11, 14:31

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Keep it up Frank and yes indeed that Qg8 mate is very pretty.

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