White to move and win
[The Answer at the bottom]
* The Puzzle Hints
Impossible Puzzle, impossible and unbelievable. Do you believe if someone tells you that the King and 2 knights can win a game playing against the King and a knight? Sometimes it is possible! This chess puzzle is the case... Move the left knight first... and enjoy a forced mate in 4... You may try to solve this puzzle on a real chess board.
* The Puzzle Data
1. Author: Berger, Johann Nepomuk (1845-1933). Austria.
2. Year: 1921.
* The Puzzle Recommendation
You are recommended not to solve the Chess Puzzle from the computer's screen. Please set up the Puzzle's position on the chess board. The Puzzle Answer is at the bottom of the page and you can revisit the page for the answer next time.
Try to solve the Chess Puzzle by yourself. You are advised to carefully analize the position, recheck your solution, and only then to see the answer to the Chess Puzzle below. Please do not look down at the Puzzle Answer before the time.
When you have seen the solution, you are recommended to set up the position and replay the puzzle again. Pay your attention to the moves marked as strong and to those as weak. Try to understand why another moves are not shown in the solution.
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# Note: See the Puzzle Answer below #
* The Puzzle Answer
1. Nf7! Nd6
[Now the Black King has no legal moves]
[1... Nd6 was an attempt to sacrifice and free the Black King]
[Under correct defense, 2 knights cannot mate the lonely King]
2. Nh6+ Kh8
[2... Kh8 was the only legal move for Black]
3. Ng5 N~
4. Ngf7# 1-0
[Mate in 4]
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