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Very nice problem– I like how black pushes the white king to a position where none of white’s pieces can mount a defense!
1. … d4+
2. Ke2, d3+
3. Kd1 (if 3. Ke3, f4#)
3. … Bc2+
4. Kc1, Nb3+
5. axb3, Ra1#
guiseppe: 3…f4 won’t do it there, since now white has Ke4. But 3…Nc4 instead is mate. Because the pawn on d3 blocks both bishops.
Hi Susan, I found the solution (hehehe but took me a couple of minutes):
…, d4+
Ke2 (forced), d3+
Kd1, Bc2+
(if Ke3 then Nc4#)
Kc1, Nb3+ !
axb3, and now the good one Ra1 #
Please keep posting these challanges.
Trukov (Puerto Rico).
It would be nice if the name of the players ,place and date were given with each diagram for the record.
It says you are #1 woman in the country. USCF disagrees with this.
Susan is #1 in the US in FIDE rating, quick rating. She is the #1 US player in standard rating. Ms. Kosteniuk is a Russian pretending to be US. This is how she is listed in FIDE website.
Kosteniuk, Alexandra RUS 2516
What a disgrace pretending to be a US player.
Maca
tommy says:
thnks for letting me know what was happening. I always felt that Kosteniuk was not in usa. i was shocked to see that.
glad to see it get cleared up.
tommy
I just tried to register a login name. lets see if it worked.
This Kosteniuk is so full of it. She puts on her website: Alexandra is 3-times World Champion.
1. She’s never a World Champion
2. She’s never a Women’s World Champion
3. She’s was a Girl’s Champion (under 16 or something like that)
4. Her 2 other titles were Disney World Girl’s under something champion.
Then she pretends that she’s a Miami resident. Her husband owns an apartment in Miami and they visit there once in a while. But she is Russian and she represents Russia against the USA.
She’s just full of it.
Maca
Hey Tommy! I just registered too.