Think This Is Too easy?
This situation seems ridiculously easy. The black king is in such a dire situation that defeat is inevitable – but – can White mate in just three moves?
Roll over to see the solution: 1.g8=N b5 2.Ne7 Kxb4 3.Nc6
FEN: 5B2/6P1/1p6/8/1N6/kP6/2K5/8 w
it can be solved in just 2 moves
1. g7-g8=Q b6-b5
2. Qg8-g1
That’s stalemate not checkmate.
that is slate mate not check mate
1. g7-g8=Q, b6-b5
2. Nb4-d3 , Ka3-a2
3. Bf8-c5, Ka2-a1
4. Qg8-a8 #
Try to do it in 3 moves!
Just move the night and its checkmate
Promote pawn to queen and bring it to a1
That’s a pretty devious puzzle. I actually found it much harder than most of the historical ones on previous pages.
i can’t seem to understand the different between a stalemate and a checkmate. black has no moves after q-g7, which is 2 moves- but it’s stopped as a stalemate rather than checkmate- despite white’s ability to continue moving.
Stalemate mean king is not in check and has no legal moves
Checkmate means king is in check and has no legal moves
Excellent puzzle. Promote to Knight (N)!!! Could never think in that angle.
couldn’t find a way to do checkmate in 3 moves, but found stailmate in 2;
1. g7-g8=Q b6-b5
2. Qg8-e6
That was a good puzzle.
I ended up with one of the four-move mates:
1. g7-g8=Q, b6-b5
2. Nb4-d3, Ka3-a2
3. Nd3-c1, Ka2-a1
4. Qg8-g7#
That far from the king, promoting to knight for the quickest mate is definitely not something that immediately comes to mind!
can not be done in 3 moves. In 4 moves, yes but not 3. If you can do it in 3…. show me!
1. g7-g8=N b6-b5
2. Ng8-e7 Ka3xb4
3. Ne7-c6#
nice
1.g8=N b5 2.Ne7 Kxb4 3.Nc6 Touch “roll over to see the solution” at the top of the page. The solution is there, and yes mate in 3 moves.
1.Nd5+ Ka2
2.Nc3+ Ka1
3.Ba3 b5
4.Bb2#
1. Nb4-d3+ Ka3-a2
2. Nd3-c1+ Ka2-a1
3. Bf8-a3 b6-b5
4. Ba3-b2#
An amazing 3 move puzzle! Probably the hardest on this website. I expected it involved an underpromotion after everything else seemed to require at least 4 moves, but certainly couldn’t find the repeated knight move, blocking a check, and sacrifice. Really astonishing.
1. Nb4-d3+ Ka3-a2
2. Nd3-c1+ Ka2-a1
3. g7-g8=Q b6-b5
4. Qg8-g7#
1. g7-g8=Q, b6-b5
2. Qg8-g7, Ka3-a2
3. Qg7-b2#
too good for me brilliant puzzle
Move king to sacrifice pawn. The rest is history.