Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Cecil's Saturday Puzzle - September 24, 2011

from the Winnipeg Free Press
White to mate in 2 (from the World Problem Solving Competition)
1. Nd5
http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=7558
(Cecil indicated 1.Nxf4, but apparently that is a mate in 3)

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

qxc6

Anonymous said...

1. qxc6, Nb-d5; 2.now what?

Anonymous said...

Mate in 3.
g4+, g3 e.p., nxg3+ , Kf4, Nce2++

but i don't see mate in 2???
anyone?

Anonymous said...

well if ndb5 its mate in 2if anything else its mate in 1 to follow up ndb5 i would go with rf8+then bf7 then qg6mate

Anonymous said...

ndb5 is the only thing that stops mate in one everything else looses anyways after ndb5 i would go with rf8+ then bf7 then qg6=

Anonymous said...

Lovely problem.
1. Nd5

Anonymous said...

ahh, well done.