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CHESS PUZZLE #9679

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Added by:	rhodri_k
Added on:	08-Mar-09
Description:	My own composition.
Difficulty:	online chess puzzle #9679
Attempts:	707
Solved:	71 (10%)


Black to move, mate in 4

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lexlex 13-Dec-12, 10:35	Comment deleted on 13-Dec-12, 10:37.
lexlex 13-Dec-12, 10:38 » Report abuse	Ingenious for an own puzzle. Congratulations lexlex
yadasampati 13-Dec-12, 11:05 » Report abuse	Very clever indeed ... ... i tried to find 2 other solutions with Rxf2 and h6, but they do not work. It is quite hard to setup a mate in 4 like this with only one solution.
yadasampati 13-Dec-12, 11:09 » Report abuse	By the way ... ... it seems impossible to try another solution that starts with the same move as the given solution. I do not understand why.
rawbee 13-Dec-12, 14:14 » Report abuse	Yadasampati: You need to go a move forward with the arrows, then you can alter the later moves. Nice, hard puzzle. Found the solution difficult to see although reasonably simple.
yadasampati 13-Dec-12, 15:11 » Report abuse	@rawbee Thank you very much for the tip!
yadasampati 13-Dec-12, 15:19 » Report abuse	@rawbee I had never read the instruction in the bottom of the window where it is explained clearly : use [<] and [>] buttons, or click on the moves to the right of the board, to navigate to the starting position of the alternative variation
fezzik 13-Dec-12, 21:14 » Report abuse	Cool! I spent several minutes trying to work out how Black could mate after the first two moves. This was really difficult to work out without moving the pieces! The mate in two would have made a good puzzle! 3.5 Stars difficulty 3.5 Stars Aesthetics. I liked the game feel of the position. But White's mating attack would not have been the only way to win. Still, a very nice composition.

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