White to move and mate in 4.
This is one of the puzzles from 2017 SPFNO Puzzle Solving Championship.
Daily Chess Improvement: Mate in 4!
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White to move and mate in 4.
This is one of the puzzles from 2017 SPFNO Puzzle Solving Championship.
20 minutes
1. Qa7+ Kxb5 2. Qa4+ Kc5 3. Qc4+ Kd6 4. Qc6#
30 seconds. Have to notice, that whites moves shoud be forced, because black forces mate in 1. James Attewell is right.
For me, what made this hard was that knight never moves in the correct line. Also, the queen check at move 1 isn’t the only check either. The various combinations took me a couple of minutes to work through before I even got to the 2.Qa4+ and 3.Qc4+.
30 seconds. Queen checks are obvious.
30 seconds. Queen checks are obivious.
Proud 2 B faster then yancy ward. Learned 2 B honest from her.
It’s Yancey Ward, male.