Chess Problems, Set 2
All are “mate in two” problems: White moves, Black moves, then White checkmates. No “one-move” boards this time.
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Date: May 6, 2010
Categories: Chess
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Errata
in May 6th, 2010 @ 14:38Isn’t that last one stalemate? White pawn moves one forward, changes to queen. Where can the black king go, that doesn’t put him in check?
I haven’t figured out the other two. These are hard.
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Robert Coontz (Administrator)
in May 6th, 2010 @ 15:18Errata: Good analysis! If the pawn turns into a queen, all White gets is a stalemate — and a draw. But (SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER) whenyoupromoteapawn,itdoesn’thavetoturnintoaqueen.
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Errata
in May 6th, 2010 @ 16:57Ah. I see.
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FantasyFan?!?!
in May 6th, 2010 @ 23:25You turn it into a knight, correct?
For #1, I would move the pawn at h4 up one, then move the rook at h1 to h4, checking it. But can’t the black king take one step back and avoid it, turning the game into cat&mouse with the rook and the pawn?#2–I have not figured this one out. What I did figure out takes way more than two moves. Queen to c5, take out the pawn at b5, get it killed by the other black pawn, take it out with the white bishop, check. And this depends on black not actively attacking with its queen.
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Robert Coontz (Administrator)
in May 7th, 2010 @ 00:18FF:
3. No, a knight can’t checkmate the king.
1. That’s the way. The black king can’t step backward because of the white pawn at f4.
2. There is a solution, and you’ll kick yourself when you find it.
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Enceladus
in May 7th, 2010 @ 18:54Got #3! And 1, after a bit.
But #2 continues to bamboozle Enc.
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peary moppins
in May 6th, 2010 @ 16:45The first one is a bamboozler. I would move the rook up, maybe luring the king to capture it, so you can then eat it with your king. But the white king wouldn’t probably fall for that.
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Move White king diagonally (if possible) putting black in check, because if black eats the king, he will STILL be in check because of that white rook, THUS he can not move to eat the white king. BUT, HOWEVER, he can move out of check but moving diagonally backwards. AND if the white king does try to eat the black king when he is at h3, he can’t (?) because of that pawn, which would still leave him in check.
Ahh. Complications.
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Robert Coontz (Administrator)
in May 6th, 2010 @ 17:07peary: White wins all of these games. And Black doesn’t help. Black doesn’t want to be checkmated and has to be forced into it.
In the second problem, the white king can’t put the black king in check. Kings can’t do that to other kings, because they’d be in check themselves.
Keep trying!
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Enceladus
in May 6th, 2010 @ 17:34I think I might have gotten the 3rd one, assuming that Black does not like opposition, knowing that he’ll be checkmated if he is.
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Robert Coontz (Administrator)
in May 6th, 2010 @ 18:21No assumptions are necessary. If White makes the right first move, then White’s next move will be to checkmate Black.
(By the way, on this board the pawn moves “upward,” not to the right.)
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Errata
in May 6th, 2010 @ 21:55I got the third, but the other two are HARD. I’m still working on them. I thought I had the second, but then I realized I didn’t.
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