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digispin

I was playing white and it was my move. There are 3 ways to checkmate the black king, can you find them all? Hint below. What order did you find them in? Please list the piece order in a comment. Thanks!

Hint 1: Each checkmate uses a different piece


Hint 2: The one I chose gave me an artistic feeling

leftyhaziq

one is move queen to i think down king

leftyhaziq

i mean down black kinf

leftyhaziq

move bishop to near the black pawn the pawn near black bishop

leftyhaziq

one more is move horse near black rook

nartreb

1. Qc7#. Always look for big threats. Moving the queen next to the king is going to be mate unless the square is defended. (I looked at Qd7 first, but that fails due to black's bishop.)

2. Na7#. I was aware of the knight being near the king, since I relied on it to defend the queen in the previous mate, so this one was pretty obvious. (I first looked at Nc7, but that blocks my rook, leaving d8 open for escape. So let's try moving the knight the other way while the rook covers the D file).
3. Be6#. This one is a little tricky; it relies on discovered attack from the c1 rook, making a double attack. Either the rook or the bishop could be taken in one move, but not both. This one is especially hard to see after rejecting Qe6 previously: you have to disregard the idea that e6 is a bad square.

How many mate-in-2s do you see?

SriyoTheGreat

1.Na7# (don't know why I saw this first)

2.Be6#

3.Qc7#(saw the easiest one last lol)

digispin
leftyhaziq wrote:

one more is move horse near black rook

You got all three. I like reading how you try to describe the moves in words. You may be a beginner that hasn't learned piece movement notation, that humbles me happy.png

digispin
nartreb wrote:

1. Qc7#. Always look for big threats. Moving the queen next to the king is going to be mate unless the square is defended. (I looked at Qd7 first, but that fails due to black's bishop.)

2. Na7#. I was aware of the knight being near the king, since I relied on it to defend the queen in the previous mate, so this one was pretty obvious. (I first looked at Nc7, but that blocks my rook, leaving d8 open for escape. So let's try moving the knight the other way while the rook covers the D file).
3. Be6#. This one is a little tricky; it relies on discovered attack from the c1 rook, making a double attack. Either the rook or the bishop could be taken in one move, but not both. This one is especially hard to see after rejecting Qe6 previously: you have to disregard the idea that e6 is a bad square.

How many mate-in-2s do you see?

That's awesome analysis! I'm assuming there's lots of M2's since the black king is so exposed and all of white's pieces are active. Black can make a lot of useless check-blocking moves and capturing pieces that are not part of the mating attack.

magipi
leftyhaziq wrote:

move bishop to near the black pawn the pawn near black bishop

Learning chess notation takes like 10 minutes. It's worth it.

DashDyl09
qc7, be6, na7
PadawanLuigi

I found them in the order: Na7, Qc7, and Be6.

Here's a checkmate in 7

Rd8+, Kxd8

Rd1+, Qd4

Rxd4+, exd4

Qc7+, Ke8

Nd6+, Bxd6

Bf7+, Kf8

Bxd6#

GMegasDoux

Qc7, Be6 and Na7 were my order. But that is also a tip from GM Smyrnov, look at the highest value pieces first and work down in the game for threats both sides have. Starting with the king of course.