Hillsborough Chess Club: Chess Problems
Problems from the monograph 'The Jackal Attack' by Adrian Skelton
and from his Presentation to Hillborough Chess Club on the 15th. November 2005.
We are grateful to Adrian for preparing this material for publication on the HCC web-site.
To obtain a copy of Adrian's novel publication e-mail him at Adrian Skelton
"Combinations from the book: I've rated these one-five stars, according to difficulty. White to play." [A.S.]
Diagram 1 [*] Diagram 2 [**] Diagram 3 [**]
Diagram 4 [****] Diagram 5 [***] Diagram 6 [*****]
Solutions
Diagram 1: Skelton-Begagic 1. Nde6 The piece cannot be taken due to the queen check on h5 followed by a fork of king and queen. Black replied with 1...Qa5 2.Ng7 Kf8 3.e6 Kg7 and Black was soon lost.
Diagram 2: Jackal Attack theory. A nasty surprise for Black here: 1.Qa4! and Black can resign.
Diagram 3: Black's king is caught in the centre but how to make that count? 1.Rd5!
Diagram 4:Black threatens h2 with check and is also pinning the white knight to the rook so it cannot move—or can it? 1.Nd6!! If Black captures the rook with check he loses. For example 1...Qe1 2.Bf1 f6 3.Bf6 wins; or 2...f5 3.Qh5 wins. Black's best defence is therefore 1...Qd6 2.Rd1 with dangerous threats.
Diagram 5: There are many ways to skin a cat but this one is neatest. 1.Qf7! leads to a forced mate with both knights.
Diagram 6.Forget winning the Black Queen with 1.Ra5 ; it may not even be a good idea. This is an instructive forced mate. The first moves are 1.Rg5 Kf6 2.Rf1 Kg5 but now you're on your own.
To obtain a copy of Adrian's novel publication e-mail him at Adrian Skelton
