White to move and mate in 4!
Daily Chess Improvement: Endgame Tactic!
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White to move and mate in 4!
1 Nc6 bxNc6(forced)
2 Kc7 c6-c5
3 b6-b7+ Ka7
4 c8=Q++
Yes, you can find variants of this ending in a lot of chess textbooks.
Puzzles for Alena:
1K2Bn2/6b1/8/1p4R1/k7/P7/p7/8 b black to move and win
3K4/3N4/5P2/3N4/4n3/8/8/7k w – – 0 0 white to move and win. Caveat- after the key moves, perhaps the ending is more inhuman than most- in other words, it is enough to reduce it to the point that white no longer has a pawn on the board and call it a victory.
1… Be5+
2. Rxe5 a1=Q
3. Rxb5 Qh8
4. Rb7+ Kxa3
5. Re7
I think I will need to exchange my knight for the white bishop. After that I will begin to hunt the white rook.
1. f7 Ng5
2. f8=N Kg2
Frankly speaking I don’t know how to mate with the help of my three knights.
You might put the entire position into the Nalimov Tablebase and study it. Probably not an ending you will ever encounter over the board anyway.