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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 Pawn Maze The pawns play only for mate, not check. Take care in how you promote as once promoted the new piece cannot move. #131 Scroll down for the solution
1 dxc8/B 2 fxe3 3 gxf3 4 axb3 5 bxc4 6 f4 7 f5 8 f6 9 f7 10 f8/Q 11 a4 12 a5 13 a6 14 a7 15 a8/N 16 b4 17 b5#. #131a 1 dxc8/N also mates, but it takes longer: 2 fxe3 3 gxf3 4 axb3 5 bxc4 6 f4 7 f5 8 f6 9 f7 10 f8/N 11 e4 12 e5 13 e6 14 e7 15 e8/N 16 b4 17 a4 18 a5 19 a6 20 a7 21 a8/Q# . #131b © 2008 Bruce Alberston. All Rights Reserved. |
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