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Sub:
Unable to mate in one
Date:
8/08/2005
1:17:53 AM Mountain Daylight
Time
From:
Salvador
To:
service@Chess-poster.com
Hello,
First, thank you for the great Chess page that you have, it is
helping me a lot in my continuous quest for learning. I have been a
Chess fan for about 35 years and I still believe I'm an amateur, but
what it really matters to me is to be able to review games and keep
on learning.
My
question is the following: in the Chess problems page,
“Mate
in one”,
on the first problem (1 of 10), if I apply the in passant
maneuver and check the black King, he can flee to the a7 square
taking the white Pawn and avoiding being mated in one move.
Am
I right? I do not see the way of making a mate in one move.
Thank you for your attention and for keeping the
Chess spirit alive.
Best regards,
Salvador.
Chess-poster.com
Dear
Salvador,
You've got a
little bit wrong the concept of the
“in
passant”
maneuver. A Pawn positioned in the 5th rank can only perform
the in passant movement. In this example the Pawn on a5
can make it, but the Pawn on a6 cannot do it since it's illegal.
In the diagram below, which is a
copy of the mate in one problem you were referring to, black
previous move was Pawn b7 to b5 (black arrow). Thus, the a5
white Pawn makes the in passant move (red arrow) taking
the black Pawn and checkmating the black King because he has no
safe place to go or any other means of blocking the attack.
More information about the in passant
maneuver can be found in the Chesmayne Pawn history at:
http://www.chess-poster.com/english/chesmayne/the_pawn.htm
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