Wednesday, 16 October 2013

A delve into extraordinary chess problems: Selfmate 2


(Continuing the series from here)


Here is a second selfmate puzzle (also relatively easy, but beware the traps!). It is by C. R. Flood from 1967, and is puzzle 81 in The Book of Extraordinary Chess Puzzles:



selfmate 2


White to play and selfmate in three.
As a reminder: "In a 'selfmate' problem White plays to force Black to checkmate him - a sort of chess suicide."



Here is an analysis board for you to play around with.



Answer




This seems to work



1. Ra4, c6 2. Rca5, c5 3. c4, g4



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