Games

 /

Entertainment

White to Play

Pete Tamburro on

Published in Chess Puzzles

Here’s a puzzle from an ante-bellum book, Chess for Winter Evenings by Agnel. There’s a story attached about a little girl watching her mom and grandfather playing, and she blurts out the mate in 5 that allows mom (who had been trying not to win against the old guy) to win. Later that night, her grandfather passes on to the eternal checkmate.


Here’s what the little girl blurted out: 1.Qa4+ Kc8 2.Qg4+ Qd7 3.Qg8+ Qd8 4.d7+ Kxd7 5.Qe6#

 


Send questions and comments to PTamburro@aol.com.

 

More Chess Puzzles

Black to Play

Chess Puzzles /

From one of those wild King’s Gambits from the 19th century. This time, Black bites back. A great mating attack by Falkbeer in 1853.

White to Play

Chess Puzzles /

Queen sacrifices are always entertaining to chess players. This game, Potter v. Anonymous, London, 1870, is unique because Mr. Potter sacrificed his queen before the game started! Queen odds! His opponent may very well ...Read More

Black to Play

Chess Puzzles /

From a 100+ year old game between two anonymous players in England. Still, a lovely finish.

White to Play

Chess Puzzles /

This is from a 5-minute game I recently played. I had about 20 seconds to make my move here, and there are some bad choices here.

Black to Play

Chess Puzzles /

Some of you more experience solvers will realize that the white queen has just taken a rook on h8 leaving a bishop that can’t move because of the loss of yet another rook; however, if you don’t know this theme, then ...Read More

Comments

blog comments powered by Disqus

 

Related Channels

Comics

Speed Bump Al Goodwyn Drew Sheneman Monte Wolverton Working it Out John Cole
See more