White to play and mate
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puzzle 23: white to play and mate
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You've got that right Ghorn.
As for the difficulty, I search through the SlowChess game archive for positions. Sometimes its easy to find nice positions, though most of the times I have to backtrack moves and variations to see where it all started.
And with this, I have to admit I sometimes call it a night and take the easy way, maybe with some pieces removed or added or a sidemove variation which creates the problem.
With this one, I hoped people would search for a mate with a pawn and/or queen move first, which in this case would take a couple of moves more to mate.
But it wasn't so in your case.
For compensation, I've posted a position which is on the high end.
As for the difficulty, I search through the SlowChess game archive for positions. Sometimes its easy to find nice positions, though most of the times I have to backtrack moves and variations to see where it all started.
And with this, I have to admit I sometimes call it a night and take the easy way, maybe with some pieces removed or added or a sidemove variation which creates the problem.
With this one, I hoped people would search for a mate with a pawn and/or queen move first, which in this case would take a couple of moves more to mate.
But it wasn't so in your case.
For compensation, I've posted a position which is on the high end.