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1. Rxh5+ gxh5
2. Rh6+ Kxh6
3. Qf6+ Kh7
4. Qg7#
Here’s a slightly harder mate in 4. Black to move.
8/R4pkp/p5p1/3p1bP1/1P3P1K/4n3/1P4rP/4R3
Thanks for the puzzle.
1…Rg4+
2. Kh3 Rxg5+
3. Kh4 Ng2+
4. Kxg5 h6#
Here is a little mate in 3 by the great Sam Loyd:
8/8/8/5N1K/4N3/8/5npn/7k w – – 0 1
And here it is White to move and win:
3N4/2p5/8/3q4/3k4/8/3PKP2/R7 w – – 0 1
Kling-Horwitz
And finally, this is a really great puzzle that requires a lot of thought about both players moves:
7K/7R/6P1/8/8/8/1k4q1/8 w – – 0 1
Cohn
1. Nfg3+ Kg1
2. Ng5 Nd1
3. Nh3#
I liked the puzzle in spite of I know a knight maneuver well it took some time to solve it.
1. Ra4+ Ke5
2. Ra5 Qxa5
3. Nc6+ Kd5
4. Nxa5 Kc5
It was a very easy puzzle for me.
And if black doesn’t cooperate with 2. ….Qx5, but instead plays c5 blocking the skewer?
Yes, it’s the best defence for black.
1. Ra4+ Ke5
2. Ra5 c5
3. Rxc5 Qxc5
4. d4+ Qxd4
5. Nc6+ Ke4
6. Nxd4 Kxd4
(You need to know pawn endings well to win the position)
7. Kf3 Ke5
8. Kg4 Kf6
9. Kf4 Kg6
10. Ke5 Kf7
11. f3 Kg6
12. f4 Kf7
13. Kf5 (we reached the opposition)
I have been going back over the puzzles from this site from 2010 and 2011 recently, and the difficulty is definitely in deep decline today. It is amazing how much more difficult the chess problems presented then compare to today. I strongly suspect Ms. Polgar has turned over this aspect to someone else in the last couple of years.