[blind-chess] Re: Solution to Re: Mate in Six Puzzle
- From: "Chris C." <cchaffin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <blind-chess@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2010 17:11:42 -0400
Hi Richard and all,
Thanks for the challenging chess puzzle.
I really like puzzles like this that will make me think and in the end I can
learn from.
Thanks also for putting the first 21 moves in there, I actually started from
move number 1 so I could understand how things got to where they were.
I did end up figuring it out, but not before those old wheels did a lot of hard
turning, smiles.
Now only if I could have the forsight to make a plan so I could say the game
will end in 6 or less moves.
Thanks for everything you are doing for chess and this list!
Chris Chaffin
----- Original Message -----
From: R Dinger
To: blind-chess@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Monday, April 12, 2010 10:41 AM
Subject: [blind-chess] Solution to Re: Mate in Six Puzzle
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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