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In the fall of 2004, popular chess author Bruce Alberston released a book called Chess Mazes, designed to help students to develop their visualization and planning skills. Chess Mazes was an instant success and ChessCafe.com was delighted when Bruce agreed to offer a new Chess Maze puzzle each week.

The concept is simple enough: the object is to place the black king in check in the shortest number of moves. The one restriction is that the white piece may not put itself en prise, i.e., on a square where it can be captured.

For those who may be interested in a more detailed introduction and overview to these puzzles, we invite you to take a look at the introduction from Bruce’s book. Click here to read more, otherwise, we hope you enjoy this week’s Chess Maze puzzle...

A King Maze

The first ten moves by the white king are more or less forced. After that he has some options. Chose the fastest option on the way to mate.

#210a

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1 Kh2 2 Kg1 3 Kf1 4 Ke1 5 Kd1 6 Kc1 7 Kxb2 8 Kc3 9 Kd4 10 Ke5 11 Kxf5 12 Ke5 13 Kd5 14 Kc5 15 Kb6#

#210b

Going for the f7-pawn adds one move: 11 Kf6 12 Kg7 13 Kxh8 14 Kg7 15 Kxf7 16 Kf8#.


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