Chess Puzzle

[Tomas Mac Mordain]

Hi there,
the champion's chess puzzle - is it the same each playthrough or is there some random element to it?

I'm looking at it and if I understand things correctly, there's no solution in two moves. Black would always have the option to check me in their move unless I check them in my first move. Thing is all the possible moves that check the king allow for an efficient retort on the black side, no check mate possible. Am I just missing something?

Also: System Shock did it better. You could actually play - this puzzle seems to just not allow a 'wrong move'.

[Ranpo]

Random but its pretty easy, you have 3 chances to make a wrong move before it summons mobs which you can kill easily anyway.

[Tomas Mac Mordain]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3033028652
If it's ranomized. Someone a suggestion how to check-mate black in two moves here?

[monsieurK]

the big difference is that tower and fool are inverted.
But you can use the queen to checkmate

[Fluff]

Or take a Gale with you and he will tell you the answer :)

[Akkarin]

Think you can also attack the king somehow

[Tomas Mac Mordain]

Originally posted by monsieurK:

the big difference is that tower and fool are inverted.
But you can use the queen to checkmate

Yeah, this one is a bit trickier. Once threatened black has mutlitple ways to retort, and I've not thought all of them through. It's doable.

[Tomas Mac Mordain]

Originally posted by StepBroccoli:

Or take a Gale with you and he will tell you the answer :)

Smartypants Gale did give me the solution in the end. It was more on the less intuitive side for me.

[Sentient_Toaster]

Was it

1. Rg8+

if
1 ..Bxg8
2 Qg7++

if
1 ..Kh7
2 Nf6++
?

[Tomas Mac Mordain]

Originally posted by Sentient_Toaster:

Was it

1. Rg8+

if
1 ..Bxg8
2 Qg7++

if
1 ..Kh7
2 Nf6++
?

Yes - first case was what black responded with, and yep. Gale gives you an explanation for both cases. I was not seeing a good solution to case 2 - not seeing the full range of the fields threatened by the white knight...

[✪ BloodLust]

Originally posted by Tomas Mac Mordain:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3033028652
If it's ranomized. Someone a suggestion how to check-mate black in two moves here?

rook to A2 check - if black takes with the bishop, queen to B2 is checkmate. if king moves to B1, knight to C3 is checkmate