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      Home  >  Chess Improvement • Chess Puzzles  >  5 second refresher

      5 second refresher

      Chess tactic, Puzzle Solving



      White to move. How should white proceed?

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      11 Comments

      1. Pavan Reply
        August 24, 2011 at 3:02 pm

        Apt title for the puzzle 🙂
        1.R3c7+ Ka6
        2.Ra8+ Kb5
        3.c4#

      2. Yancey Ward Reply
        August 24, 2011 at 3:06 pm

        1. R3c7 Ka6
        2. Ra8 Kb5
        3. c4#

        Come on, this is way too easy.

      3. Collin Goldman Reply
        August 24, 2011 at 3:17 pm

        R3c7+ Ka6 Ra8+ Kb4 c4#
        Collin Goldman

      4. Jagadish Dube. Reply
        August 24, 2011 at 3:45 pm

        1 Rc7+ Ka6.2 Ra8+ Kb5.3 c4#

      5. Anonymous Reply
        August 24, 2011 at 3:56 pm

        1. R3c7+ Ka6
        2. Ra8+ Kb5
        3. c4#
        But not in 5 seconds… (30-40 seconds, I believe).

        Best regards
        Stef

      6. Anonymous Reply
        August 24, 2011 at 3:58 pm

        1. Rc7+ Ka6
        2. Ra8+ Kb5
        3. c4#

      7. Morsa Reply
        August 24, 2011 at 5:09 pm

        1.R3c7+ Ka6 2.Ra8+ Kb5 3.f4#

      8. Anup Reply
        August 24, 2011 at 6:20 pm

        This looks too simple

        1. R3c7+ Ka6
        2. Ra8+ Kb5
        3. c4#

      9. quarterplay Reply
        August 24, 2011 at 10:25 pm

        1.R(3)7+ Ka6 2.R(8)a8+ Kb5 3.c4#

      10. BB Reply
        August 25, 2011 at 1:33 am

        1. Rc3c7 Ka6
        2. Ra8 Kb5
        3. c4#

      11. Anonymous Reply
        August 25, 2011 at 4:19 pm

        Understandable that a pawn mate is always thrilling, but this was really trivial… c’mon, Zsusa: you can deliver much better stuff! 😉
        (btw: just joking… keep up the good work and thx a lot!)

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