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3 Most Tricky Mate-in-1 Positions Ever

Yury Markushin
Yury Markushin
05.17.2014
Category: Problems
Tags: chess tactics, mate in one, tricky chess

We present 3 the most tricky mate-in-1 problems you will ever see. To solve these tactical wonders you don’t need to be a very strong chess player.

All you need to know is the basic chess rules and possess some imagination and intuition.

Mate in one tricky problem #1

tricky mate in 1 - 1

White to move and mate in 1

Mate in one tricky problem #2

tricky mate in 1 - 2

White to move and mate in 1

Mate in one tricky problem #3

tricky mate in 1 - 3

White to move and NOT checkmate in 1

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Solutions (in case if you’re totally puzzled):

Problem 1. 1.dxe6# The previous move for white was Bb2+ and black blocked the check by movin his pawn from e7 to e5. This allows white to capture the black pawn on e5 via en passant for checkmate.

Problem 2. 1.Qg6#. In this game players started the game on the reversed chess board.

Problem 3. Rc6+ is the only move that is not a checkmate.

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Pen Is
02.22.2020 09:57

It was the easiest puzzle ever if you didn’t solve it their must be something wrong in your brain.

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Shay
01.19.2019 18:02

On number two, you can get the pawn in for a queen, and that’s mate in one.

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your wrong
Reply to  Shay
09.15.2019 22:48

no your wrong his upside down dumb

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chess4life
Reply to  Shay
02.16.2021 08:10

Even if we think the board’s not inverted, if you promote to queen, kg5 can be played. So its not mate in 1

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Shay
01.19.2019 18:00

I solved number 2 right away, it isn’t that hard.

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Zwangzug
12.27.2017 00:19

Great puzzles! (I’ve seen #1 before though.) #3 is the only one that is totally fair, but these were billed as tricky, not fair, so I won’t complain. I also won’t complain because I solved all of them eventually, and now I feel smarter than many below 🙂 (but I don’t want to admit how long I looked for a stalemate in #2, after noticing only “mate” was specified in the rules.)

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Yury Markushin
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Reply to  Zwangzug
01.01.2018 02:33

I agree they aren’t “totally fair”. Although they are great for developing imagination and out-of-the-box thinking.

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Kevin
09.16.2017 19:42

This is really lousy.

1) Chess problem rules clearly state that en passant assumptions are not possible, unless the last move is proven, by retro analysis, to be the double step pawn move.

In this case, retro analysis does NOT prove the last black move (nor the white bishop check prior to that). Therefore, the problem is unsound.

2) Bad idea to show this with coordinates on the board.
I like these kind of joke problems, but there are far more tricky examples.

3) This is nearly a plagiarism.

a) You do not credit the composer [Karl Fabel, Ratselstunde 1952].

b) You show his diagram wrong:

B1n1n1KR/1r5B/6R1/2b1p1p1/2P1k1P1/1p2P2p/1P2P2P/3N1N2 w – – 0 1

Conclusion: Do not buy this book.

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Barry
01.18.2017 20:56

Problem two is a fraud as the chessboard clearly showed ranks 1 through 8 on the left edge of the board. Problem three has two answers ; Rc6# is NOT the only move as Rxg5# is not mate as Rxh7 stops mate in one.

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Alex
Reply to  Barry
01.31.2018 09:50

RxH7 you mention is illegal as rook is pinned.

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John
01.11.2016 09:51

For5 puzzle 2 you need to change the board so that all the blue squares are white and all the white squares are blue. As it is it is not valid. I actually thought maybe it’s a reversed board so I checked the parity of the squares before dismissing it as an idea.

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Swastik
11.27.2015 06:58

I didn’t get problem 3.

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Julius Baldenero
03.30.2015 13:05

Problem #1
dxe6 e.p #

Problem #3
Rc6

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Chris F
12.29.2014 00:51

Enough readers here have trashed #2, and deservedly so. I will dispose #1 as having no relevance.

By the conventions of puzzle composition, 1. dxe6# is allowed only if the legality of the position depends on e7-e5 being Black’s last move. This is obviously not true here. For example, White’s previous move may have been Qg5, to which Black responded Rh7.

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mightyJUNJUN
10.21.2014 11:10

In Problem 3. It’s Bxb7#. 😆

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yudhie
10.21.2014 05:08

problem no 2 is not correct because the only way the pawn can depends queen in that position is in f2 but is clearly shown from the board that the pawn is in f7. i will show you the right way. queen f4 check mate end of story

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Tom White
11.12.2014 22:18

Yes, failed. But so annoying. All it demonstrates is that normal chess problems are premised on reasonable assumptions. Arguably one should get number 1 – but the second one is really stupid. Waste of time.

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Ian
09.19.2014 21:03

What about in #3, K – F8?

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zhyar
08.17.2014 16:21

pr0blem no2 is wrong because the white’s pawn on the f7 square cannot defend g6.

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Fernando Sampaio
09.03.2014 02:11

Problem nº 1 dxe5 e.p.#

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Yury
08.19.2014 01:11

[quote name=”zhyar”]pr0blem no2 is wrong because the white’s pawn on the f7 square cannot defend g6.[/quote]

It’s a tricky problem, remember?

Problem 2. 1.Qg6#. In this game players started the game on the reversed chess board.

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Yury
07.04.2014 16:14

[quote name=”Hetor”]Trick problem #3 is not correct because it is not possible to have both bishops on the white boxes.[/quote]

Why isn’t it possible? Pawn promotion to a second bishop. 🙂

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Hetor
07.03.2014 23:09

Trick problem #3 is not correct because it is not possible to have both bishops on the white boxes.

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Samael
05.18.2014 06:02

#1 dxe6++

#2 Qb3++

#3 1. Rc6 , Rxh7. =)

I can not find others solutions

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Ghayth
05.18.2014 04:29

En Passant

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Rodrigo
05.17.2014 19:28

I can’t mate in 1 on #2…

Is it really possible?

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karthik
05.17.2014 19:01

i m afraid problem num 1 is not a mate in 1

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Nawwar
05.17.2014 15:58

[b]Not possible !![/b]

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Seba
05.18.2014 04:16

…nice, I found them all, but the 2# is not fully correct, it has to be without the coordinates…(maybe a nice lead too)

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Kovi
05.18.2014 07:03

#1 [b]Qf6[/b]…pawn in h5 is promoted as R or Q…:)
#2 [b]Qf4[/b]…pawn in f7 is promoted as B…:)
#3 [b]Rf8[/b]…just continue castling…:)

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hassan alalfy
05.20.2014 01:00

1/ dxe6 unpassant with discover check from Bb2 as the last black move was pawn e7 to e5

2/Qg6 as the board is rotated or black played from bottom

3/Rg6 to c6

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David J
05.18.2014 18:57

not possible

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Stigma
05.17.2014 23:59

Are you sure it was a good idea to have coordinates on these diagrams?

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chessbibliophile
05.18.2014 03:01

Dear friends,
Remember rules of chess 🙂

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Yury
05.18.2014 02:34

Hello everyone, the diagrams are correct. Think outside the box and you will solve it! 🙂

Then you can test it on your chess friends!

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