Homework 6
In every position given below these ideas can help you find the solution
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Black just sacrificed a Queen
with 1)...Qg2+!! White have no choice but to take it. 2)Kxg2 and now Black uses double check to give mate in 2 more moves. |
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Similarly to a previous problem Black Queen attracts (using its charms, an offer that cannot be refused) opponent's King to a square where it gets mated. Black mates in 2 moves. |
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White gives a double check. 2) Forces black rook onto a square that completes locks the Black King and delivers a mate with the remaining Knight. This construction is know as the smothered mate. Mate in 3 moves. |
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White mates in 3 moves. Hint: did you read through the lesson? |
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White just sacrificed a Queen with the last move 1) Qd7+!! and after the Queen was taken 1)...Bxd7 White finds a 1)double check 2)Check 3)Distract the defender from defending the last rank. 4)Mate. White Mates in 4 after Bxd7. (Long, harder, problem) |
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Queen trade1) Qxg8 Rxg8 is bad (R vs B) left. There is a tricky way to distract opponent's b8 Rook from the defense of the Queen. If King captures instead a double check blocks Qg8 protection. How? |
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White gives up a Rook to attract
opponent's King to a square where it get mated. White mates in 2. Another Rook will take the banner from a fallen comrade. |
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White sacrifices a Queen and if Black takes they get mated by a double check. How? |
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White wins a Queen using double check |