Daily chess puzzle: Check Mate #478

October 28, 2017

Another puzzle from Dragoslav Andric’s 1981 book “Matni Udar”.

Black to play and mate White

4781

Escott v Arkell, Birmingham 1980

Solution

Easy today: 1…Qb4 is obvious, it being a puzzle. 2 ab[] Ra1+ 3 Qb1[] Rb1+ 4 Kb1[] Be4+

4782

5 Ka2 Bc2! 0-1 or 5 Kc1 Ra8 and Ra1 0-1.

FEN

r3r1k1/1b3ppp/1q2p3/4P3/1B1P1P2/P1p3P1/2Q4P/2KR1R2 b – – 0 1

From → Chess

Enter your comment here...

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

Email (required) (Address never made public)

Name (required)

Website

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out / Change )

You are commenting using your Twitter account. ( Log Out / Change )

You are commenting using your Facebook account. ( Log Out / Change )

Connecting to %s

Search site