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07-14-2009 , 05:09 PM

mackthefork

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Regs might have seen this one before. I haven't read the sticky so I hope this is okay, apologies if not.

It's white to move, mate in 6 moves, I looked for over an hour and half, before giving up and checking answer, I also ran it through CM 10th edition which got mate in 8 moves against itself. See if you can get both.

Credit - by Giegold 1976

Regards Mack

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07-14-2009 , 05:37 PM

Shadowlike

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nice problem. I needed ~10 minutes to find the solution (while single-tabling). I saw the motive pretty quickly, but the execution is not so easy. I only found the mate in 6 though.

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07-14-2009 , 07:49 PM

bigpooch

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Only see the mate in eight

( maybe I'll give this an hour or so ).

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07-14-2009 , 08:05 PM

bigpooch

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Okay, another joke!

There is a "trick answer" that is a mate in six:

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07-14-2009 , 08:12 PM

All-inMcLovin

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This is funny..

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07-14-2009 , 08:24 PM

Shadowlike

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Small hint to the motive for those who don't want to spend too much time on this:

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07-14-2009 , 08:59 PM

bigpooch

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Okay, too easy after the hint!

Solutions ( every one! ):

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07-15-2009 , 02:16 AM

bigpooch

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The last move in the previous post should be

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07-15-2009 , 05:41 AM

Noir_Desir

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