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Meanwhile, Tata Steel. Alas, The Boy has rejoined the leaders in the Master’s section by defeating Ding yesterday, who made a blunder. Our gal Ju drew against Gukesh. Nepo beat Nordi. In the Challengers 16 yr old Marc Andria Maurizzi is at the top of the heap and Niemann is way down. Lots of chess remains. You might need coffee. I haven’t “checked” Tata today. I went to play OTB. My long time control game was disaster and then I beat the same opponent in 10 minute games 4-1. Go figure. I’m usually not great at the fast format.
Interested in learning? Try THIS.
White to move and mate in 3. More than one answer.
1.Ke4 Kh7, 2.Qf7+ Kh8/h6, 3.Bc3/d2# If 1…Kg5/h5, 2.Qf5+Kh4/h6, 3.Be1/f8#
NB: I’ll hold comments with solutions ’till the next day so there won’t be “spoilers” for others.
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Sat in a corporate conference for 8 hrs yesterday, kept looking at the “mate in 3” puzzle to keep sane. Still can’t see any possible way. Father, do you have an answer for this one?
Try these:
1.Ke4 Kh7
2.Qf7+ Kh8 or h6
3.Bc3 or d2# That’s in three.
However, as I started with some variants, I found 3 was not so “easy”.
If 1…Kg5 or h5
2.Qf5+ Kh4 or h6
3.Be1 or f8#
The rest seem to go to 4, don’t they?
Very good thank you! I sketched out all the ways to mate with a queen, bishop, and king. But I missed the one where the queen is a knight’s move away from a king stuck on the side and the bishop moves to mate. Dang that was a big miss, but I learned something important. Again, thanks for the challenge!