Link to interactive chessboard
FEN = 8/2N1p3/2ppR3/Qn2P3/B1k5/1N2K3/8/8 w - - 0 1
Composition by Robert Tony Lewis.
That was quite tricky to find. If it was a real game, I would have probably just simplified lol.
i had to give up after a while - that was a good one
My brain canโt even and I canโt figure out that interactive chessboard. Could someone post the solution?
Took me quite a while to find it. Frustrating considering White has such an overwhelming advantage in this position.
Solution
Queen moves to d2, threatening mate with Qd4 unless Black defends d4 with pawn to c5. However, the a5 square is now free for the Knight to deliver checkmate anyway, so black's only defense is fruitless.
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|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Magnus Carlsen | ๐ณ๐ด | 2839 |
| 2 | Fabiano Caruana | ๐บ๐ธ | 2786 |
| 3 | Hikaru Nakamura | ๐บ๐ธ | 2780 |
| 4 | Ding Liren ๐ | ๐จ๐ณ | 2780 |
| 5 | Alireza Firouzja | ๐ซ๐ท | 2777 |
| 6 | Ian Nepomniachtchi | ๐ท๐บ | 2771 |
| 7 | Anish Giri | ๐ณ๐ฑ | 2760 |
| 8 | Gukesh D | ๐ฎ๐ณ | 2758 |
| 9 | Viswanathan Anand | ๐ฎ๐ณ | 2754 |
| 10 | Wesley So | ๐บ๐ธ | 2753 |
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