White to play and mate in 3 moves or less.

Solution:

Finfangfoom, your post seems to have disappeared (somehow). Could you repost your puzzle?

I can see my first post just fine using Internet Explorer. Someone posted in the Feedback forum a while back about the first Post in threads sometimes disappears. Perhaps it is a Firefox/Mozilla browser problem with the "This is a sticky post" coding here on chessforums.org? Anyway, here is a repost-


White to play and mate in 3 moves or less.

Solution:

IE6 perhaps? I'm using FF2 and IE7, neither show these 'ghost posts'. Odd.

Yep, I'm using an older IE 6 version.

That was another fun one FinFang. Thanks again for sharing.

Cool, i'm glad you liked it! Say, did you see the puzzle in the first post too or only on the repost I did? Just wondering...

I am able to view both the first puzzle posted at the top of this thread and the second one after Perseus' reply.

Here is just my two cents regarding the solution posted with the puzzle.

I think you do not need to sacrifice both white rooks to mate the black king because the black bishop which has a lot of movement could increase the number of moves.

The problem with the two rook sacrifice is that the bishop can always opt out on taking the second rook. It can stay in the b8-h2 diagonal and the 3-move mate is in jeopardy.

As an alternative, hopefully a more effective move I would start with Rg2. Then the black bishop is forced to move to any available square since the king has nowhere to go. If it goes to the e5 square, for example as the most chessic move (defending the pawn and the g3 square), white can then go Rh8 (the only sacrifice needed).

If bishop takes rook, then knight mates the king. If bishop does not take rook and stays in the b8-h2 diagonal, Rh1 finishes the job.

Just an observation, guys. What do you think?

Hello and welcome the the forum, yerfedge! I think your variations starting with 1.Rg2 instead of the original solution of 1.Rh8 works out a-ok for Mate in 3 moves, good job. Just one thing though about your comment on the original solution-
If the Bishop does take the first rook(and if it doesn't take the first Rook, it will still be Mate in 3 moves or less), then the Bishop will have to take the second Rook as Black has no other move-