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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? 

 

Comments


  • 21 months ago

    Keyif

    This puzzle took <30 sec. The move rf7 is not forced there is one other option. The result is the same. I mention this as we should look for other moves that our opponent can make when calculating.

  • 21 months ago

    IM attilaturzo

    g4 was hard to find me, because that was not a check, but creating an undefendable mate threat.

  • 21 months ago

    stylishman

    this took less than a minute, every move seemed a natural progression

  • 21 months ago

    khpa21

    I stopped looking after Ne6+ and Nxf8, since that's what I'd go for in a real game.

  • 21 months ago

    IM attilaturzo

    Yes, I posted only the most interesting checkmate from the 5 I solved.

  • 21 months ago

    thesexyknight

    Unfortunately it appears only one puzzle made it to this page. Took about 20 seconds

  • 21 months ago

    Kinn72

    I see only one example on this post. It took me 2 minutesto solve.

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