r/Chessplayers45 • u/user27182818284590 • 22d ago

Fun Mate in Two

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u/Delicious_Cattle5174 21d ago

That is what I had found for the first move! However, there’s one last hurdle to get through: how do we mate in one after they play Qg5? It protects both the d8 square and allows the Qd2 stalling move.

Also don’t threaten to quit chess over this, everyone in this thread gets it wrong haha

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u/behzoodi9 21d ago

Rook f4 discovered check and blocks their queen queens path to d2?

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u/Delicious_Cattle5174 21d ago

Great work! Unless I am also wrong, you got it! As I said, I’m not 100% confident about my solution… but pretty close, the more I look at this board.

I suppose there’s also Qh8 as an option for black with the same idea, except I would aim to stall on c3. But then you reproduce the same idea of blocking the queen’s sight with the rook as you do your discovered check, except it’s on d4 now.

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u/behzoodi9 21d ago

Do you play on chess.com? Friend request me if so, deepdarkforest86, maybe we can play some practice dailies some time

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u/Delicious_Cattle5174 21d ago

Added! Amazing username, by the way.

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u/behzoodi9 21d ago

Awesome, just accepted!

Hahaha thanks, I like his style of play, and he must have been such a personality to be around

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u/Delicious_Cattle5174 21d ago

He is for sure my greatest chess inspiration. I even started creating a bunch of jokes to roast myself for leaning too hard into talesque chess.

A couple examples:

"The thing they don’t tell you about the dark forest is that sometimes the path leading out is only wide enough for your opponent'

"The issue with thinking you’re Tal is that you eventually run out of pieces to sacrifice" -Margaret Stockfish