Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Cecil's Saturday Puzzle August 15, 2009

From the Winnipeg Free Press, Saturday, August 15, 2009
White to mate in 2 (Jacob Funk)

Solutions: Apparently there is a 'cook', unless I got the position wrong.
Stephen in the comments hit on both of them but rejected 1. Nf3 because of 1...Nc6, but then 2.Bxf7#
But 1. Rxc3 apparently mates in two also.
1. Nf3

4 comments:

Unknown said...

Looks like Ne6 to me...

Unknown said...

Blast... nevermind... Nc6 saves the day

Unknown said...

Nf3 falls to Nc6 too...

Unknown said...

Okay it has to be 1. Rxc2 with all possible replies:

1...Bc3 2. Qxc3#
1...fxg6 2. Qb2#

I think all other replies by Black are Qb2#