Medium Chess Puzzle # 0068

Solve this medium chess puzzle and improve your chess games through improvement of your chess strategies and chess tactics.

Puzzle No : 0068

Difficulty level : medium

Description : Mate in 2 moves

Next Move : Black

Player level : Intermediate

Medium chess puzzle 0068

At this puzzle, next move is by Black. The objective of the puzzle is to mate in 2 moves.

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This is the initial board position of medium chess puzzle 0068.

Move by black

Move by white

Move by black

Ganesh

Based on the objective of the puzzle, you have to make the right moves. Following are the right moves

Ra1 - One way to have a checkmate is to capture the pawn at d3 by the bishop and give a check. This is discouraged by the protecting rook. If you divert the rook, you can have a checkmate. The rook sacrifices itself to overload the opponent’s rook. This is also a decoy move. The opponent’s rook has two duties now.
Rxa1 - Opponent chose to capture the hanging rook. This move left the pawn at d3 unguarded
Bxd3# - Your bishop captures the hanging pawn and checkmate. Opponent’s king can not move to other squares due to the attack from your knight. This is how you can mate in two moves
For right move - You have over loaded the opponent’s rook and won the game. It was a good decision
For wrong move - You could have over loaded the opponent’s rook and won the game. Try again