Jianying Ji wrote on Sat, May 11, 2002 02:36 AM UTC:
> I love these questions, and always try to include them in my own new
> games.
Glad that you like these kind of questions. I thought it might be fun
too.
> 1 Rh7 Na6 2 Qh5++;
Short and sweet. Quite amazing really.
'Note 1 Be2 Bd7 2 Kf1 Ra7 3 Qe2 Ra8 4 Bh5++ is shortest doublecheck
mate.'
the 3rd move doesn'T make sense.
After the second move we have
. n . q k b n r
r . . b . . . .
. . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . .
. . . . B . . .
R N B Q . K N R
Qe2 is an impossible move, however I think you intended Qe1
which works.
It is interesting that both of these are helpmates, I wonder if a
computer
mate as I defined can be found easily, or does it really need a computer
to answer that questions.
