Jan Timman vs Marcel Sisniega
Jan Timman faced Marcel Sisniega in a game that ends with an interesting mate. Find the four moves required for White to win the game.
Roll over to see the solution: 1. Nh7+ Ke8 2. Nf6+ Kd8 3. Rd7+ Kc8 4. Ba6#
FEN: r4k2/PR6/1b6/4p1Np/2B2p2/2p5/2K5/8 w - - 1 0
About the players
Jan Timman is a Dutch grandmaster who was one of the top players in the world from the late 1970s to the early 1990s. He won the Dutch Chess Championship nine times. Because he was seen as the best non-Soviet player during his peak, people called him The Best of the West.
He was a Candidate for the World Chess Championship on several occasions. In 1993, he played Anatoly Karpov for the FIDE World Championship title but lost the match. His highest rated speed chess score is a 2504 in Rapid.
Marcel Sisniega Campbell was a Mexican Grandmaster and film director born in Chicago. He grew up in Cuernavaca, Mexico. He earned the International Master title in 1978 and became a Grandmaster in 1992.
Sisniega won the Mexican championship nine times. He also won the Carlos Torre Repetto Memorial three times. During his career, he beat players like Viswanathan Anand, Artur Yusupov, Miguel Illescas and Jesus Nogueiras. He stopped playing for the most part after the early 1990s.
Outside of chess, he worked as a film writer and director. He is best known for his work on Libr.