There is nothing wrong with your answer, it is, in fact, the given solution. As to the difficulty of the problem, you would have to take that up with Reinfield who claimed the problems in his book 'Win at Chess' were presented in a progressively difficult manner. Richard ----- Original Message ----- From: Chris Ross To: blind-chess@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Friday, August 30, 2013 4:44 PM Subject: [blind-chess] Re: Problem WAC102 I don't see the difficulty with this. What is wrong with simply 1. Qxf8+ Qxf8 2. Rxh7 mate? This is a rather easy puzzle. Regards, Chris From: blind-chess-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:blind-chess-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of R Dinger Sent: 31 August 2013 00:38 To: chess Subject: [blind-chess] Problem WAC102 Good Afternoon Puzzlers, Another WAC series problem. This problem is from Mario Lang's puzzle web page at: http://delysid.org/chess/epd.cgi Problem WAC102 White to move FEN Problem Setup: 2Q2n2/ 2R4p/ 1p1qpp1k/ 8/ 3P3P/ 3B2P1/ 5PK1/ r7 w - - 0 1 Short Algebraic Problem Setup: White: Kg2, Qc8, Rc7, Bd3, Pd4, Pf2, Pg3, Ph4 Black: Kh6, Qd6, Ra1, Nf8, Pb6, Pe6, Pf6, Ph7