The original position composed by Otto B. Wurzburg, Magyar Sakkujsag 1911 is as follows:
The version you posted has a plenitude of solutions, i.e. 1. Rh8 hxg2 2. Rh7 g1=Q+ 3. Qxg1#, or 1. Rh8 fxg2 2. Rxh3 g1=Q+ 3. Qxg1#. It is not difficult to verify that any waiting move will do the trick for mate in three.An Absolute Classic!
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Still far more difficult than most of the daily puzzles though.
1. Rb7. I don't want to spoil the rest for Tony. ;-)
Wow, that's a nice puzzle.
Brilliant!
Oh, Rb7, very nice. It took me a while to understand that move.
heinzie wrote:
The original position composed by Otto B. Wurzburg, Magyar Sakkujsag 1911 is as follows:
The version you posted has a plenitude of solutions, i.e. 1. Rh8 hxg2 2. Rh7 g1=Q+ 3. Qxg1#, or 1. Rh8 fxg2 2. Rxh3 g1=Q+ 3. Qxg1#. It is not difficult to verify that any waiting move will do the trick for mate in three.
Thank you! I remember now that the rook on b2 was indeed the correct setup! Well, at least I got it corrected!
yeres, how does the rook take on h3 from b2? Oh, I see, you didn't bother to read any of the thread and see that the position in the original post wasn't correct, but was corrected in post #2.
Since what I was responding to has been completely edited out, I've edited out my post.
1. Rb7 fxg2 2. Qa8!
Let me know if you need any more help.
No resentment or arrogance. There was an indication at the beginning of the thread that we shouldn't just give the solution away. That's why I just gave the first move to start and just the second move later.
Loomis, you gave it all away by giving the key move, eh?
Also, 1. Rxh3, PxN (forced), 2. Rxh2+, KxR (forced), 3. Qh8 or h7 mate in three
Alexandr, after 1. RxP the next move 1. ... PxN is ambiguous because there are two pawns that can take the knight. And then your move 2. RxP+ isn't even a legal move... oh, now I see, you also didn't read past the first post to find the corrected diagram.
Hey guys, I'm new in this forum and I joined for two explicit purposes:
I don't know if this puzzle has already been posted here. If not, and in the meantime, I leave you with the position, and you think about it.
I'll put the solution if I manage to convince these admin guys to put it in the Daily Puzzles section... I think it deserves to be there.
White to move. Mate in 3.