Chess problem 2007-11-14
My apologies for not posting a new problem the past two weeks. It shan't happen again.
White to mate in two
Add a comment to this post with your solution. I'll buy a beer for the first person to correctly solve the problem next Tuesday, during our regular session at Matchless.
November 14th, 2007 at 1:01 pm
1.Qd6
November 14th, 2007 at 3:38 pm
That's two weeks in a row, sir! Your solution is correct, but, for a bonus beer, who composed this problem?
November 14th, 2007 at 4:10 pm
Max Euwe?
November 14th, 2007 at 6:17 pm
Damn, you're good.
November 14th, 2007 at 6:40 pm
Okay I totally cheated on the bonus question.
Believe it or not, I found the answer from the first result returned in a google of “chess composer 1.Qd6″: http://main.uschess.org/content/view/24/78
(By the way, their Max Euwe puzzle doesn’t have the black pawn on b6. Not that it matters to the puzzle.)
November 14th, 2007 at 10:38 pm
Hah! Glad to know you're good, but not that good.
Regarding b6, I didn't analyze this problem before I posted it. I got it from Edward Winter's Kings, Commoners and Knaves, page 42. Maybe it does matter…
Nope, it doesn't matter to the puzzle in the sense that Qd6 is still the key move, but it does add another variation.
1. Qd6 b5 2. Qa6#