[blind-chess] Spoiler Alert for Problem BWTC427
- From: "Jeffrey Turner" <jturner522@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <blind-chess@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2012 02:51:32 -0400
Hello,
This is a forced mate in 5 moves. White starts by forcing the King off the
eighth rank with Qd8. Black's only available square is g7. At this point,
the White Bishop on c2 covers all the white squares around the Black King,
g6 and h7, and the White Queen on d8 covers the eighth rank as well as the
f6 square. Now White sacrifices his Rook to allow the h5 pawn into the
picture with Rxg5, check. With all the squares covered by the Queen and
bishop, this forces hxg5, which allows White to push h6, check. The only
available move is to capture, so Black plays Kxh6, and now White sweeps over
with Qh8 check, and the only move for Black is to temporarily block with his
Rook, Rh7. White mates with Qxh7 and Black is smothered by his lonely pawn
on g5.
Great puzzle!
Jeffrey
From: blind-chess-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:blind-chess-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of R Dinger
Sent: Monday, July 16, 2012 11:07 AM
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Subject: [blind-chess] Problem BWTC427
Good Morning Puzzlers,
Another checkmate problem, but from a different part of the file.
This problem is from Mario Lang's puzzle web page at:
http://delysid.org/chess/epd.cgi
and is reported to be from Fred Reinfield's book "1001 Brilliant Ways to
Checkmate" .
This problem can also be obtained from G. Ossimitz's chess page at:
http://wwwu.uni-klu.ac.at/gossimit/c/chess.htm
Problem BWTC 0427
White to move
FEN:
5k2/
pbp2r2/
1p5p/
4R1pP/
1PP5/
8/
PKBQ1q2/
8
w - - 0 1
Short Algebraic Problem Setup:
White: Kb2, Qd2, Re5, Bc2, Pa2, Pb4, Pc4, Ph5
Black: Kf8, Qf2, Rf7, Bb7, Pa7, Pb6, Pc7, Pg5, Ph6
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