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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 King Maze The white king moves back and forth between kingside and queenside. In the process black pieces are removed and mate ultimately accomplished. #192 Scroll down for the solution
1 Kg6 2 Kf5 3 Ke4 4 Kd3 5 Kc2 6 Kb2 7 Ka3 8 Ka4 9 Kb5 10 Kc6 11 Kb7 #192a 12 Kxa8 13 Kb7 14 Kc6 15 Kb5 16 Ka4 17 Ka3 18 Kb2 19 Kc2 20 Kd3 21 Ke4 22 Kf5 #192b 23 Kg6 24 Kg7 25 Kxg8 26 Kg7[h7] 27 Kg6 28 Kf5 29 Ke4 30 Kxe3 31 Ke4 32 Kd5# #192c © 2009 Bruce Alberston. All Rights Reserved. |
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