[blind-chess] Solution to Re: Mate in Six Puzzle
- From: "R Dinger" <rrdinger@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <blind-chess@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2010 07:41:20 -0700
Hi Puzzlers,
I'm not sure what principle this problem demonstrates, but it should have
something to do with the fact that Black's Pawn cover around his King is in
very poor condition and White has a lot of power on the King-side of the board.
The Black King is wide open and ready to pick like a ripe peach.
Chernev's solution is as follows:
22. Rxf8+ Bxf8
23. Rxf8+ Kxf8
24. Qh8+ Kf7
25. Qh7+ Kf8
If 25. Ke8
26. Qg8#
If 25. Ke6
26. Qxg6#
26. Qxd7 anything
27. Bh6+ Kg8
28. Qg7#
----- Original Message -----
From: R Dinger
To: chess
Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2010 2:35 PM
Subject: [blind-chess] Mate in Six Puzzle
Hello Blind Chess Puzzlers,
The following was taken from the book "Logical Chess, Move by Move" by Irving
Chernev and may prove to be an interesting chess puzzle. The position is from
a real game between Pillsbury and Marco.
This is the Forsyth diagram after move 21, note that each Rank is on a new
line to make it easier to read:
5rk1/
1b1qb3/
r4Rp1/
p2p2B1/
2pP3Q/
2p1P3/
PP4PP/
5RK1/
White to move.
At this point Pillsbury announced that he (White)has a forced mate in six
moves or less. Can you find it? I will reveal Cherneb's solution next Monday
if nobody solves it by then. Note that Marco (Black) has a Pawn just 2 steps
away from royalty.
If you are interested in how the game got to this point, I have included the
first 21 moves below and hopefully I have converted from descriptive notation
correctly.
Pillsbury-Marco
Paris 1900
Queen's Gambit Declined
1. d4 d5
2. c4 e6
3. Nc3 Nf6
4. Bg5 Be7
5. e3 O-O
6. Nf3 b6
7. Bd3 Bb7
8. cxd5 exd5
9. Ne5 Nbd7
10. f4 c5
11. O-O c4
12. Bc2 a6
13. Qf3 b5
14. Qh3 g6
15. f5 b4
16. fxg6 hxg6
17. Qh4 bxc3
18. Nxd7 Qxd7
19. Rxf6 a5
20. Raf1 Ra6
21. Bxg6 fxg6
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