Pretty good two-mover with seven black officers all defending on the c-file. I missed that these c-file defences all occur on different squares, which is a very worthwhile idea. By convention, a queen/rook promotion dual is not a flaw when it occurs as the mating move. But the white bishop not doing anything except to block a check is indeed bad. Here's a setting that gets rid of the bishop. There's still a nice try, 1.Qc4? Rc3!
Mate in 2
Sort:
Rocky64 wrote:
Pretty good two-mover with seven black officers all defending on the c-file. I missed that these c-file defences all occur on different squares, which is a very worthwhile idea. By convention, a queen/rook promotion dual is not a flaw when it occurs as the mating move. But the white bishop not doing anything except to block a check is indeed bad. Here's a setting that gets rid of the bishop. There's still a nice try, 1.Qc4? Rc3!
Really nice improvement, completely missed the idea of using Qg5 to cover e7. The try is much better too. Thanks!
Inspired by Nabokov's 1968 composition here
A bit rough and needs improvement, but semi-functional at least. Hope you like it!