Chess Puzzles #12 - Checkmate in 3 moves

Chess Puzzles #12 - Checkmate in 3 moves

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[LazarrusMohanno]

what the fuck? where is my beautiful girl at? brig her back ..

[shoopi1234]

wah, the only reason I even watched this was because of that sweaden girl

[Fanouriou]

@samewoody No he can't. Bishop strikes knight checks white. You have to force a move first.

[samewoody]

too easy...he could just move king to f1 and wait and see what black does and have both bishop and knight to move and check mate with both so black has nothing. i want my girl friend back!!! shes my gf she just doesnt know it yet :)

[matufika]

Tricky... Although the black king is on the first rank from the bottom, the board isn't flipped.

Of course, Ba8 is the best move for White. We know that the white bishop has to stay on the a8-h1 diagonal to have checkmate in 3 (or less) moves. If white plays Bb7, or Bc6, Black will take it, and after 2. Kf1, Black will come up with the idea to pin the white knight, so he plays Ba6 or either Bb5, depending on where he took the white bishop.

Not that easy to see at first sight!

[RosarioVixen]

@emptylolpuh the bottom of the board is white starting territory so the blacks have absolutely no moveable pieces with the king dying on its only 2 options, therefore stalemate where black cannot move and therefore gives up. since you want checkmate you want avoid stalemate

[RosarioVixen]

nice chessboard though xD

[IIIKryptonIII]

how the hell are there triple pawns on A file?

[Alybran]

Nice puzzle!

[emptylolpuh]

WTF stalemate? he can still move peices the pawn on h4 can move so:

1. Bxe4 - f3xe4 2. Kf1 - h5/e5 and then knight to f2 checkmate

[emptylolpuh]

WTF stalemate? he can still move peices the pawn on h4 can move so:

1. Bxe4 - f3xe4 2. Kf1 - h5/e5 and then knight to f2 chackmate

[HolyHolcomb]

Steelmate.