Help mate with the knight December 26, 2008
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For the second puzzle we have a helpmate in five

In a helpmate in five, Black moves first and both sides cooperate to help White mate Black on his fifth move (hence both sides play five moves in the solution).

To solve a helpmate, the best idea is to try and guess the mating position and then work out how to arrive there in the time allowed. Here White has just one piece apart from his king, so there aren’t many possibilities.

Problems selected and annotated by John Nunn.
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