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1. Qd7+ Rxd7
2. exd7#
am i missing something?
These are getting too easy if I can spot the mate in less than 30 seconds:
1. Qd7 Rd7
2. ed7#
Qd7+ RxQ
PxR#
At first glance, it looks like the action will center around the d8 square, but its covered three times and attacked three times with no easy way to bring another piece to bear, so the combination must be elsewhere.
We must be cognizant of the d1 rook protecting e1, for if he leaves the back rank then Qe1 would be checkmate.
We can see that the black king is frozen in place; the dark square bishop covers b8 and c7, the knight holds down the d8 square, and d7 is covered by the Queen and Rook as well as the pawn on e6. So we must act before black has an opportunity to create an escape route by pushing the b pawn.
1.Qd7+! Rxd7
2.exd7#
Qd7+ mates.
1. Qd7+, Rxd7
2. exd7#
1.Qd7+! Rxd7 2.exd7 mate!
Kamalakanta
1. Qd7+ Rxd7
2. exd7#
Dear Susan:
I read with interest the item about Alzheimer’s in your Blogspot yesterday, “Does playing chess
prevent Alzheimer’s“. Of the 6 cognitive areas that the playing of games can exercise, chess exercises all but one, I think. Chess exercises short term memory, long term memory, calculation, visuospacial, and critical thinking. It doesn’t exercise language, unless cussing when having a bad position counts. I’d be playing chess anyway, but it nice to know that at my advanced age, my chess playing may be helping to prevent Alzheimer’s.
I can’t say that solving today’s problem called for the exercise of most of these skills.
It was more like a demonstration that when someone sticks a finger in my mouth, I can still be reliably counted on to bite down (in under 5 seconds).
1. Qd7+ Rxd7 2. exd7#
Lucymarie
1. Qd7+ Rxd7;2. exd7 mate
1.Qd7+ Rxd7, 2. exd7 mate
Answer for your chess problem: The next white move is Q7+, and then the black only response is: RXQ7, and the white response: pXR++
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