🧠🧠 Rocinante (Hybrid Exercise)

Hybrid Puzzle: The audio will tell you where each of the pieces on the board are, then read a series of moves from that position. When prompted, try to identify the best next move.

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FEN for today's exercise:
8/p6p/5N2/8/8/k7/2K5/8 w - - 0 1

PGN for today's exercise:
[FEN "8/p6p/5N2/8/8/k7/2K5/8 w - - 0 2"]
[SetUp "1"]

1. Nxh7 Ka2 2. Ng5 a5 3. Nf3 a4 4. Nh4 a3 { Find a checkmate in five moves for White. }

Adapted from the book "100 Endgames You Must Know (Workbook)" by Jesus de la Villa.

And the answer is...

1. Nf3 Ka1 6. Nd4 Ka2 7. Ne2 Ka1 8. Nc1 a2 9. Nb3#