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      Home  >  Chess Improvement • Chess Puzzles  >  Daily Chess Improvement: Checkmate in 3

      Daily Chess Improvement: Checkmate in 3

      Chess tactic, Puzzle Solving

      White to move and checkmate in 3. No computer please 🙂

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      8 Comments

      1. Yancey Ward Reply
        March 1, 2014 at 6:56 am

        Took me a few minutes to find the second move- didn’t immediately recognize the mate with the rook:

        1. Qh4 Ng4 (f4 2.Qf4#)
        2. Qe7! Be7 (Ne5 3.Qe5#)
        3. Rd4#

      2. Anonymous Reply
        March 1, 2014 at 8:16 am

        1.Qf7 with mate on e6 so Re8
        2.Qb3 and mate next?

      3. Anonymous Reply
        March 1, 2014 at 8:23 am

        1.Qh4 Ng4 2.Qe7 Be7 3.Rd4

      4. Nicolas Turover Reply
        March 1, 2014 at 9:10 am

        Qh4+ Ng4, Qe7+ Bxe7, Rd4 mate

      5. Nicolas Turover Reply
        March 1, 2014 at 9:12 am

        Queen h4 check, knight g4
        Queen e7 check Bishop takes e7 and rook d4 mate

      6. trixster Reply
        March 1, 2014 at 3:36 pm

        Qh4+ Ng4
        Qe7+ Ne5
        QxNe5#

      7. kibitzer Reply
        March 1, 2014 at 3:42 pm

        1. Qh4+ Ng4
        2. Qe7+! Bxe7
        3. Rd4#

      8. Shriya.R Reply
        March 6, 2016 at 6:04 am

        Q h4 Check Ng4 Qe7 Check Be7 Rd4 Check mate.

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