Wednesday, June 19, 2013

Cecil's Saturday Puzzle - June 15, 2013

White to move and mate in 2 (Chocholous)
1.Nb3

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Nb3

Anonymous said...

Oops! Maybe people aren't paying enough attention to these. Since the Qa1 is the only possible checking piece on White's second move, the suggested Nb3 has at least two cooks: ...Bb8 and ...b5.

Anonymous said...

Double oops! The reply ...b5 definitely cooks Nb3, but ...Bb8 is handily met by Ra5. There's a threat at the beginning to check with the BQ and that points to the solution. But this is one of those two-movers where the key isn't as important for the value of the problem as the multitude of "tries" that come after the key.

Anonymous said...

Triple oops. After 1.Nb3, 1...b5 is met by 2.Rc5X. And there was another threat to the piece delivering mate, the Qa1, that was ...Qxf1, which is the reply to "what looked like a good move to me, 1.Nf2." So, yeah, maybe you're right about 1.Nb3. I hope you didn't just throw it into the cooker to get the answer?

Anonymous said...

Nope just worked it out.

Steve de Groot