Chess Puzzle

Posted on March 23, 2009 by Nicholas Gruen
Posted in Chess

Black to play
L De Veauce vs Keene 6. ...? See game for solution. Difficulty Scale

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.

4 Comments

  1. FDB
    March 24, 2009

    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.

  2. TimT
    March 24, 2009

    Ah, black exploits the weakness on white's f-file. A good demonstration of a basic concept in chess tactics.

    *Strokes his beard knowingly*
    *Even though he hasn't got a beard*
    *Amazing what you can do on blogs, innit?*

  3. Nicholas Gruen
    March 24, 2009

    No FDB, you've not missed anything. You can click through to the game should you wish.

  4. TimT
    March 24, 2009

    Another fun puzzle would be to work out what the preceding moves were.