Saturday 24 August 2013

How fast can you move?

From today's Street Chess action comes the following position. Black's last move was Kg5-g4 and after about 20 seconds thought White resigned. Of course the gathered kibitzers instantly suggested Rf1 as White's saving move (Rxf1 being stalemate). But the question is: Can you force mate with Black (after Rf1 by White) and do so in under 20 seconds (which is the approximate amount of time Black had left on the clock)?

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

...Ra2 to g2 to g3 to h3 to h1

Anonymous said...

but then the K gets to f2... so Kg3 first

Alana said...

I was moving so slow in that game that I would have probably been the one losing on time... :| and I was four pawns for a piece up!