PROBLEMS

Below you can find some fictitious games. Only the last series of moves is missing! The openings may not be "best possible"; they are there just to produce the final position. There may be, for instance, mating possibilities before the last move.

If you are willing to contribute more problems, I'll be happy to include them mentioning the origin.

The easy one?

1. d4

2. e5 Ke7

3. ?

This might happen in real life

1. e4

2. e5 Nf6

3. ?

Hint: In progressive chess Nh6 (or Nh3) is more usual than Nf6 (or Nf3).

Material is NOT everything

1. d4

2. e5 e4

3. Bg5 Bxd8 Bh4

4. ?

You must find the idea

1. Nh3

2. c5 Nh6

3. d4 Bxh6 dxc5

4. ?

Besiege the king!

1. e3

2. d5 Nh6

3. Qg4 Qxc8 Qxd8+

4. Kxd8 e5 Ke7 a5

5. d4 dxe5 Kd2 b3 Ba3+

6. Ke6 Ke5 Bxa3 Bb2 Bxa1 Bc3+

7. ?

From Gerard Jendras :

1 b4

2 e5 Bxb4

3 a3 axb4 Nh3

4 Nf6 Ne4 Nc3 Nxd1

5 ?

From Doug Hyatt (hyatt@cs.utk.edu) (his comments):

If you want another good problem, here's one I played the other day. Black to mate on his 8-move series.

1 e3

2 Nf6 d5

3 Qg4 Qxc8 Qd8+

4 Kxd8 Nc6 Nb4 Nxc2+

5 Kd1 Kxc2 Ba6 Bxb7 Bxa8

I believe black is without a defense in this position. I played:

6 d4 dxe3 exf2 fxg1=Q Qxg2 Qxa8

A clever try, but white mated with the nice continuation:

7 Nc3 Nd5 Nxf6 Re1 Rxe7 Re8 mate

After the game, however, he said he thought he would also win with the continuation:

7 Rf1 Rxf6 b4 b5 b6 b7 bxa8=Q+

Now black can mate with a very nice 8-move series (the first move of which has to get himself out of check.)

Your comments are welcome!

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