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Black to move and mate in 4.
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In the 2024 Team Chess Battle on Tuesday Daniel Naroditsky and Robert Hess won their semifinal match against Hikaru Nakamura and Levy Rozman.
In OTB yesterday, I played as if I had never seen chess pieces before in my life. Really frustrating. I can’t figure out my pattern.
1. … Rg8+
2. Kh1 Rc1+ (note Kf1 results in … Rc1#)
3. Nf1 Rxf1#
This is a four move mate if white does 2. Rg7 Rxg7, delaying the inevitable.
White can stretch it out to a “mate in 4”, depending on how he moves his King. For instance, here’s a mate in 2:
1. …. R(h8)g8+
2. Kf1? Rc1 mate.
To stretch things out, White plays
2. Rg7 RxR+
3. Kh1 Rc1+
4. Nf1 RxN mate.
… R(h8)g8+
Rg7, Rg7+
Kh1, Rc1+
Nf1, Rxf1#