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Chess MazesBruce Alberston |
Chess Mazes There are two types of chess mazes: checking and mating. For bishop, rook, and knight mazes the play is to check the black king. For queen, pawn, and king mazes the object is to checkmate the enemy king; here checks are not allowed. The rules in common for each type of maze are as follows:
Helpers in queen and king mazes are frozen to the diagram position, unable to move or be removed. In pawn mazes promoted pawns are unable to move off their promotion squares. Also move order may be juggled without harm to the solution. Often, when running up the board to promote, pawns can advance in different sequences. For those who may be interested in a more detailed introduction and overview to chess maze puzzles, we invite you to read more; otherwise, we hope you enjoy this week's Chess Maze ... A Rook Maze The rook can only give check horizontally or vertically. Intuition should help narrow it down. #326a Scroll down for the solution
1 Rh1 2 Rf1 3 Rf2 4 Rc2 5 Rc8 6 Rxe8 7 Rc8 8 Rc2 9 Rg2 10 Rxg7 11 Rg2 12 Rc2 13 Rc3 14 Rxa3+ #326b © 2012 Bruce Alberston. All Rights Reserved. A PDF file of this week's Chess Maze, along with all previous Chess Mazes, is available in the ChessCafe.com Archives. Comment on this week's Chess Maze via our Contact Page. |
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