Chess Puzzle #126146

CHESS PUZZLE, FEN 2K1k2N/2R5/8/7p/1B6/2p5/2r4r/8 w - -

Added by:	clems
Added on:	03-Jul-14
Description:
Difficulty:	chess puzzle 2K1k2N/2R5/8/7p/1B6/2p5/2r4r/8 w - -
Attempts:	495
Solved:	50 (10%)


White to move, mate in 3

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riwulof
18-Jan-19, 15:45

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Interesting

My 1st try 1.Rc4 (threatening Re4#) failed to 1...Rhe2 2.Rf4 Re2 ! and there is no mate.

klan
18-Jan-19, 21:44

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1. Rc4... Rhe2, 2. Rg4 (not Rf4) and threatening checkmate on Rg8. If black moves the rook from Re2 to Rg2 then mate is inevitable with 3. Re4#

cbgm
19-Jan-19, 00:04

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Rc4 does not work. It's not too hard to see that it's a rook move but the beauty of the problem is in spotting black's defensive resources and thus landing on the correct key. A good problem.

riwulof
19-Jan-19, 09:00

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@klan
if 1. Rc4... Rhe2, 2. Rg4 then h5xRg4

@cbgm, +1 ! Fully agree. ^_^

snailmate
11-Jul-23, 09:41

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It was fairly easy to see that the solution was going to involve the white rook retreating along the c file threatening mate on the e file and forcing one of the black rooks to go to e2 and obstruct the other one. The hard part was seeing that c5 was the correct square, counter-intuitive because it obstructs the white bishop and allows another variation.

aarouge
12-Jul-23, 03:24

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Beautiful puzzle

A very ingenious, harmonic and practical puzzle.

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