White to move, Mate in 6.
More of an endgame puzzle, came up in a training game today vs Stockfish. White to move, Mate in 3.
Here's the full 3rd game I played: [Event "KW September Fast Regular"][Site "KW Chess Club"] [Date "2014.09.30"] [Round "4"] [White "Gareau, Don"] [Black "Mallon, Christopher"] [Result "0-1"] [WhiteElo "1738"] [BlackElo "1767"] [Annotator "C. Mallon"] [PlyCount "82"] 1. Nf3 Nf6 2. g3 e6 3. d3 b6 4. e4 Bb7 5. ...
White to move, Mate in 2!
I played my 3rd game tonight since un-retiring against Don Gareau, a strong Class B player. I'm relatively proud of this game as I was able to employ all the things I've been studying in the Silman book recently, achieving a dynamic advantage in terms of superior minor pieces, using that pressure to convert to a material advantage by winning one of his three loose pawns, and then trading down into a won endgame. Even at the end, my bishop was superior to his since every single one of ...
Updated 10-01-2014 at 08:22 PM by Christopher Mallon