Unlock your Genius – November 2008 (Problems)

by dlwyatt, Ohio, Tuesday, November 18, 2008, 05:24 (6236 days ago) @ Tony Kosten

? ? You mean instead of Ra8? I sort of thought the mate in one spoke for
? ? itself. :)
? Oops! My mistake, I assumed Black played the critical 8...Kf8 in this
? line.

I think you're asking about lines where White didn't get a chance to play Re7 with check (getting out of the way of the d-pawn with tempo). And you're right, of course, the line I gave was sort of the "easy one", where Black attacked White's rook whenever he could, but also walked into checks that White would have wanted to give anyway.

I'll shut up and let someone else take a crack at those. :)