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Arisktotle
Markzhang1 wrote:

im late but, thats not mate in one.

Indeed, you are late, but you can make up for that by first reading what others wrote about that puzzle. And you'd probably skip making a comment.

sumxr_txme
GabGarbage wrote:
Kyobir wrote:
 

???

because the coordinates of the board are reversed. the board goes a-h, with black on the first rank, so the black pawns are going down and cannot take the knight.

Arisktotle
ehm42 wrote:

lol, I just played the right move not knowing it was correct

If you do that a lot in your games, you may end up as a World Champion, not knowing you did, lol.

johnporkjejdm

Nd3# because black pawns on second rank

TreeStemTree
Dodi232

wow really hard ones

Dodi232

and I can't find how to get hints happy

Dodi232

ah now I found a hint, but it just solved itself, too easy now wink

adninyelng

No the solution is Kd1#

MARattigan

Sure it's not 42?

IHAVEMOVEDACCOUNTS123
Kyobir
LEDUY2402 wrote:
 

exf7#

ALEXC220

gf

allue6033
Remellion wrote:

Maybe retros are too hard. I'll make a regular #1. Yep.

Protip: There is only one move that mates in one.

f4?

allue6033
Remellion wrote:

y2721's reasoning was... almost wrong. It should be as follows: if the last move was ...g7-g5, white made 10 captures with pawns. Black is missing 9 units. Therefore the last move was not ...g7-g5.

@The_King_Fischer: Mate in 1s can be hard. Aside from the "retro" ones (en passant, castling, black-moves-and-white-mates, both sides have mate but it can only be black to move, etc) the regular ones can be plenty difficult, e.g. mine from 2 pages ago? If an FM can find it difficult... well.

Now watch what a real composer can do, compared to my amateurish ones so far.

Leonid KubbelWhite to move and mate in 1.

d8=Q

Black_king_in_ches
Kyobir wrote: LEDUY2402 wrote:  

exf7#

two ways

Kyobir
TreeStemTree wrote:
 

dxe6 e.p

Dodi232
aman_makhija hat geschrieben:
 
Solution(highlight):
Due to the fact that the black king and queen are on the wrong colour, the pieces must have come from the other side of the board. So black can't take the knight as pawns can't move back!

cool idea happy

Rudrabff

In the 2nd puzzle it is black to move and lose

Aboceline1900

Nc4