Solution Activity 5th Season 2

This time it has been a little difficult because some (not many) of your answers were not perfect as usual.

I tell you the solutions and I’ll post some of my favourite ones, your solutions although this time we were not as creative as usual, I know it was my foul cause both Challenges were pure and real chess.

Challenge 1:

Challenge 2:

This is the diagram:

...and we are going to explain the several options to check mate.

With the King: Kb-8 or K c-8 and the bishop on a-8 checks.

In the diagram we can realize the King cannot move to a-7

c-7, Xa-6, b-6 and c-6.

With the Queen:

There are two options with the first one (above) we lose our Queen although we can win a Rook.
With the second (below) the options are much better:

 With the Knight:

There are also 2 options Nc-5+ (above) we miss our knight.

And Nf-2+ a little better but the Wite King has easy escape

The Fast from Escolapios (Logroño)sent us a picture:

RPquintoA10 from Rey Pastor (Logroño) in a video: