White to move and mate in 4!
Daily Chess Improvement: Mate in 4!
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White to move and mate in 4!
2 minutes
1. Rh5+ Kg6 2. Rh6+ Kf5 3. Rf6+ Qxf6 4. Qe4#
Good work Susan !
This puzzles is suitable for people with ratings 2000 or less and quite hard to solve for them.
Despite it’s very easy for Master of 2200 and up, let alone those IM or GMs with 2400 – 2500 and up.
It’s true this puzzles is very easy and piece of cakes for those with 2600 and up,
but this puzzle aims for the majority of chess enthuasiasm, those 90 percent whose rating is less than 2000.
For amateur indeed, not suitable for prof chess player where a wrong bishop or knight moves can resulted more than just victory of wooden army.
My rating is 1800-1900 on 5 minute icc and these consecutive puzzles (“Mate in .. moves”) is relatively easy for me. There are few alternative lines to analyze the shortest mate lines. And all moves are mostly forced. I think, these puzzles are for speed solving, but not for complete solving the problem. I found much harder to solve puzzles on my local newspaper, and i have not solve some of them yet.
A lovely rook maneuver dislodging the queen.