Giancarlo Kerg

Chess

Here are some of my all-time favourite chess puzzles. The puzzles are in increasing order of difficulty (from left to right)! The right most one took me around 6 hours to solve completely (no computer and no board), so be prepared for some mental gymnastics ;)

Puzzles

  1. abcdefgh 87654321

    1White to move. Mate in 2.

    Position (FEN) kbK5/pp6/1P6/8/8/8/8/R7 w - - 0 1
  2. abcdefgh 87654321

    2White to move and win

    Position (FEN) 3B1B1B/p7/7B/8/7B/8/k1K5/8 w - - 0 1
  3. abcdefgh 87654321

    3White to move and win

    Position (FEN) 8/3P3k/n2K3p/2p3n1/1b4N1/2p1p1P1/8/3B4 w - - 0 1