Knight checkmate, tourney

I used 2 minutes tody for the 5 checkmates. The last one was a nice queen-knight cooperation. Today will start the tourney, but before the invitation I decided to go to a spiritual conference this weekend. So I asked the tourney director to postpone my weekend games. I travel in minutes and will be back at sunday. See you then!

Daily checkmate - Queen sacrifice

I used 3 minutes today for the 5 checkmate puzzle. I would like to show the 1st one which was easy and pretty. What do you think? :)

Daily checkmate - The power of the king

I solved today's 5 puzzles in 1 minute. In this one we can look the great cooperation of the king and rook. The idea of taking away squares instead of direct checks, sometimes we not attack the king, but we attack his available squares to force him to the mating square.

I plan to give checkmates. Again.

I am invited to play in an international master tourney in Budapest at the Hungarian chess federation. It will be a round-robin tourney of 9-11 rounds depending on the number of players. The tourney will start Saturday and we'll play a one round every day. My goal is to play my best chess. The instructive games will be analysed and and shared here. The time control will be 90 minutes/players plus 30 seconds per moves for 40 moves, then 30 minutes and 30 seconds/move for the rest of the game.

Queen-Knight cooperation

I solved my daily 5 puzzles. The first 4 was easy and needed only 1 minute for all of them, then the last one was hard, I used 3 minutes to solve it. So Today I worked 4 minutes on the puzzles.

Can you solve the puzzle which gave me the challenge? :)

The pawn-knight-rook checkmate combo

Today I used 6 minutes for the 5 examples, 4 were very easy and took around 15 seconds each, but the 5th was quite hard and I used 5 minutes to solve it. It shows a nice motive when a pawn, a knight and a rook can checkmate the king which has 2 pawns which block him.

Can you solve it? Can you post a comment on this post where you write how many minutes did you use? 

9 moves checkmate in the study with trainingbot

I solved 5 checkmate examples with trainingbot. I used 3 minutes for the 5 checkmates.

I like most this 9 moves forced checkmate. Can you find the solution? :)