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1. e5 dxe5
2. h6 e4
3. h7 Bf7
4. Kxf7 e3
5. g7+ Kxh7
6. g8=Q+ Kh6
7. Qg6#
about 5 minutes
Bobby Fisher said “he liked to watch em squirm”
e5 and Black’s helpless
1e5. 2h6. 3h7 4gxf7 if black king takes h pawn it is mate with bishop. Mate in 7
I wish I could call it brilliant insight, but it really is nothing but 40 years of solving chess puzzles. You see enough of these puzzles, you start to recognize certain motifs simply based on certain setups in the position. I took one look at this and knew 1.e5 was the first move, and it took me another ten seconds to understand why. I spent another 20-30 seconds just playing the moves in my head after that with the only variation of importance being 3. …Bf7 rather than 3. …Bxh7.
Yancey Ward, I love solving chess puzzles too. There is a very good book called Encyclopedia of Chess Problems by Milan Velimirovic (Serbia) and Kari Valtonen (Finland). I think you may like it.
Alena,
I have heard of this book, but don’t purchase chess books any longer- the world wide web is simply a better resource for such things.
For example, you might want to check out http://www.yacpdb.org/#static/home
The website is an amazing resource once you learn to use it- the interface leaves something to be desired, but is a tremendous source of puzzles both ancient and new.
There are, as of today, over 400000 problems at yacpdb.org
Thank you. It’s an amazing colection of chess puzzles. I’m glad that you gave me the link.