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White to Mate in 2 - Composition by Miroslav Svítek (thelemmy.club)
submitted 2 months ago by chessmate@lemmy.ml to c/ChessPuzzles@lemmy.ml
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Link to interactive board

FEN = 8/1R1Q4/r1p5/k7/2KP4/8/8/8 w - - 0 1

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[-] raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

I am really bad at notation, or English names of pieces.

SpoilerSomething lesser piece b5 check, pawn takes b5, queen takes pawn b5 check-mate?

[-] Alexstarfire@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

No, king would move down instead of pawn taking.

[-] raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Sooo...

First

  1. Ra7

then Black has two options:

Option 1c5 2. Qb5#

or

Option 2Kb4 2. Qc7#

That took me longer than I care to admit.

[-] raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago

Doh, of course... I was never very good at chess and it's been ages since I played... Time to think anew...

[-] chessmate@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I guess you can simply play on the interactive board and it generates the PGN formatted moves below which can be useful to learn the notions :)

[-] raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Thank you, I didn't know the link led to an interactive board.

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