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Chess Bruce Alberston
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Chess Mazes 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 Bishop Maze The undefended black rook provides the motive for white’s first three moves. After that the bishop has to contrive to reach the checking square. #211a Scroll down for the solution
1 Be3 2 Bd4 3 Bxh8 4 Bd4 5 Be3 6 Bg5 7 Bd8 8 Ba5 9 Be1 10 Bg3+ #211b © 2009 Bruce Alberston. All Rights Reserved. Comment on this week's Chess Maze via our Contact Page. |
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