3 Move (mate in 3): Chess composition

Can anybody post a 3 move chess composition. I have a program on my Android that has over 135,000 expert level mate-in-two chess compositions.

Looking on the WFCC (World Federation of Chess Composition) website, 3 move chess compositions are also used.

-FYI: under tournament conditions, a solver has 20 minutes to solve a 2 move composition, and 60 minutes to solve a 3 move composition.

Can anybody post a tournament level 3 move composition. More to satisfy my curiosity. The 2 movers are quite the challenge for me. Partly due to the fact I get bored of staring at a chess position for more than a few minutes, let alone 20 minutes. :laughing:

-I haven’t actually been able to solve any the expert 2 move compositions yet, but they are REALLY hard.

Case anybody is wondering, chess compositions go back to the *1800’s, and are definitely designed to confound the solver, rather than teach a pattern mate.

No doubt pattern mates are more useful and excellent teaching tool for lower level players like me. But compositions, even if I don’t solve them, at least get me to study a seeming random position in much more detail. So it’s long term usefulness is certainly there, but more ephemeral than a pattern mate. Gets me to look for the usefulness of moves that are much more quiet and not just gang bang offensive or defensive. Plus it’s good practice for slower time controls. I usually play 10 to 20 minute games, so I might only stare the board for a minute or two just a few times in the entire game. :sunglasses:

*Chess studies and compositions go back far longer than that, but I meant in the 1800’s is when chess compositions became in vogue as a competition. Magazines would run chess composition contests, etc.

Woot. I finally solved one of the expert level compositions! (Mate in 2 obviously).

A journey of the thousand miles begins with the first step.

:mrgreen: