Chess Puzzle
Posted by Nicholas Gruen on Monday, March 23, 2009
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A seven move game. Not hard to see the answer, but kind of humorous nevertheless, especially given that this was a near grandmaster standard game.
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Seven moves?
Bishop to G3, then the only way out of check is pawn takes bishop. Black queen to G3 and we’re done.
Don’t think I’m missing anything.
Posted on 24-Mar-09 at 7:38 am | PermalinkAh, black exploits the weakness on white’s f-file. A good demonstration of a basic concept in chess tactics.
*Strokes his beard knowingly*
Posted on 24-Mar-09 at 8:11 am | Permalink*Even though he hasn’t got a beard*
*Amazing what you can do on blogs, innit?*
No FDB, you’ve not missed anything. You can click through to the game should you wish.
Posted on 24-Mar-09 at 12:47 pm | PermalinkAnother fun puzzle would be to work out what the preceding moves were.
Posted on 24-Mar-09 at 12:53 pm | Permalink