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Sunday, October 23, 2011

Cool chess puzzle for a chessy Sunday

Chess blog for latest chess news and chess trivia (c) Alexandra Kosteniuk, 2011


Hello everyone,


Cheer up your Sunday with a nice chess puzzle. White to play and checkmate in 3. You can run the gameplayer for the solution. The two different lines are shown differently. Enjoy.




















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7 comments:

  1. Amrit Puri Knights Chess Club New DelhiOctober 23, 2011 at 12:33 PM

    Ah damn I missed the second line of the solution. Oh oh oh. Will be using another of your puzzles at our club. Thanks Chess Queen. Have a great week ahead.

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  2. Alexis Cochran, New ZealandOctober 23, 2011 at 12:36 PM

    Sorry I cheated but its the first move that well baffled me. After that I got both the lines. Cool. Have a great Sunday Chess Queen.

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  3. TSHOctober 23, 2011 at 12:37 PM

    Loves and hugs Alexandra. Your make chess so much fun.

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  4. Brenda Kroll, BerlinOctober 23, 2011 at 1:16 PM

    Very difficult :(

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  5. Kate Bentley, LondonOctober 23, 2011 at 1:24 PM

    Isn't Black lost any way with such deficit in material?

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  6. Alexis Cochran, New ZealandOctober 23, 2011 at 1:25 PM

    @Kate That's the puzzle. You have to checkmate in exactly three.

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  7. Aaron, WurzburgOctober 23, 2011 at 1:28 PM

    It's kinda sadistic to have puzzled with too much deficit in material for one side? A guy's already dead and you want to like hammer it in. Just kidding. heh heh. Trying to write an intellectual comment.

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