White to Mate in 2 - Composition by Jozef Taraba
1mon 24d ago by lemmy.ml/u/chessmate in ChessPuzzles@lemmy.ml from lemmy.ml
I found the solution but haven't figure it out yet. Like I don't understand why black does what it does.
Why does it move the knight, instead if capturing the queen?
That's not an option - the black pawn is moving down the board.
I think on these puzzles the boards are always oriented from the player's perspective (so your pieces would have started at the bottom).
Right I'm dumb, in my defence the analyse button takes you to a site that let's you move the pieces anywhere you want, which must have confused me
Or instead of moving the knight move the bishop to take my knight? I feel like the win is only because of a misplay the bot makes
No note that I'm looking at it again there's nothing they can do. The knight move doesn'tt make sense, but checkmate is unavoidable
No I don't think so? If we still move white bishop to C4 but then black leaves the knight and moves their bishop to B2 then when the queen moves to A6 it gets taken by the knight, no checkmate. Alternatively the queen could go to B5 but then the pawn takes it, still no mate. What am I missing?
Queen taking knight on B4
Ah! That is what I was missing. Thank you
Yeah white has to mate in 3 if black chooses to move it's bishop instead of it's knight.
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Bishop to c4 Queen to a6
Sorry, but I cannot see specifications about whose turn it is to make a move. Black or white?
"White to mate in 2" indicates that you are playing as White and it's your move.
Thanks for clarification. I just got used that some people clarify this question in chess puzzles right in the title.
I don't get it, it has to be two moves, not one? Why not just knight to b3?
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Lol fair point
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Rook to B4, Bishop to B4, Knight to B3
Rook to B4, Bishop to C1, Queen to B6
EDIT: Wait, forgot about my own bishop.