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https://www.chessgames.com/puzzle.html Anonymous No.20416[View All]

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⛵️☎️ No.21899

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>>21896 yes, which makes this another really bizarre "puzzle." Where even if black plays it right, white can force a stalemate pretty easily.

Anonymous No.21902

>>21899
Black does have a back rank issue so he needs to be careful
But after the white pawns fall, black is simply better. I dont see a stalemate here, but it could lead to that if W is lucky enough

⛵️☎️ No.21903

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>>21902 black can easily take out the f g and h white pawns. The problem is that if black tries to advance or do anything other than perpetual check, white can also advance and force perpetual check at the very least despite the back rank mate no longer being there. And oddly, if black trades queens, white suddenly has the better position despite being down in material due to its passed pawn.

Anonymous No.21915

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White to play
G Timoscenko vs V E Kozlov
https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1299417&m=20

⛵️☎️ No.21917

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>>21915 White: bishop X h6
Black: g7 X h6 bishop
White: knight f5
Black: queen X knight, to delay mate
White: queen X queen

In the actual game, black doesn't take the knight, white responds accordingly, and black resigns on the following move

Anonymous No.21919

>>21915
after Bxh6, black has an interesting in-between move, Nxb3
If White recaptures with axb3, then after gxh6 Nf5, Qe6! is now possible because white's light-squared bishop is off the board. And black is fine, white can't easily make effective attacks.

Instead of axb3, white can go Bxg7!!, threatening mate, and black is in trouble if Kxg7 Nf5+. Either forced to throw away the queen or it's a mate

If black goes f6 instead of taking the bishop, trying to make an escape route for the king, then Qf8+ Kf7 Qh7 Qd8 Re3 and black is barely holding the game together. Good for white, but not an easy line

⛵️☎️ No.21923

>>21919 N X b3 just seemed like a distraction. There's no need to capture it. That bishop isn't even really threatening anything since the pawn it targets is sufficiently defended by black. The same applies to the knight, if white does capture it. Taking it back just wastes a turn.

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Anonymous No.22141

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Mmmmm No.22270

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Black to play
M Warmerdam vs A Tabatabaei

https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=2601884&m=40.5

Anonymous No.22385

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Anonymous No.22403

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Anonymous No.22534

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Anonymous No.22559

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Anonymous No.22606

⛵💻 No.22649

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>>22113 I went
black: knight X C3
white: pawn X knight
black: bishop A3, check
white: king c2
black: pawn f4, check
white: king b3
black: bishop X h3
white: pawn X f4
from there I traded my bishop for the rook before pulling back the black bishop, ending up +2 in material, whereas Bluebaum pulled back the black bishop and lost a pawn before trading for the rook. Neither sequence was optimal.

Anonymous No.22676

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>>22559
>>22649
... Rxf6+
g7xf6 Qxf6++
Rook sac to mate.

Anonymous No.22772

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Anonymous No.22790

>>22649
Admin:
Whites are racist.
That is all.

Anonymous No.23007

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Anonymous No.23035

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⛵💻 No.23106

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>>22141
White: rook f1
Black: rook f8
White: rook X pawn
Black: rook X rook d6
White: rook X rook
from there it goes off the rails because Black/Aravindh didn't take the optimal move rook b6, not that I would have found it anyway.

I really dislike these open-ended puzzles.

Anonymous No.23231

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White to play and Mate in 4

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Moony No.23237

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Chess is not a game of deception. It is a game of memory. How do we know this? Well if it's the deception guy vs the memory guy the memory guy always wins.
Since I'm having trouble remembering things because I don't link emotions to memories very well one of my nurses has suggested I pick up chess. It has the guise of deception. Tricking your opponent to make a faulty move but it has memory as its core. In other words you can get pass novice level by being deceptive in chess but it is in no way near as limitless as having a good memory.
Deception will eventually lead to cheating. While there is no point in cheating in chess it's fun to learn and how to mirror engines against engines and pick the best of those engines and mirror it against a player. It's pretty boring once you know how to do it though because you're just doing what a machine tells you to do. Nothing else.
Is mankind's memory limited to never reach the trillion possible moves in chess? Well ofc it is and if it came down to two players having enough memory to fill out the entire game, maybe deception would play a role. Probably not though. It would probably turn into a discussion of how unbalanced chess is since white always starts.

Anonymous No.23239

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Daily Chess Puzzle
Black to play
NN vs A Fritz
https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1336203&m=14.5

Moony No.23282

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there are two colors in my head
there are two colors in my head

Anonymous No.23364

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Anonymous No.23392

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Anonymous No.23528

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Anonymous No.23547

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⛵💻 No.23890

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>>22270
Black: rook X bishop, check
White: pawn X rook
Black: pawn h5, check
White: king moves away from white queen
Black: queen X queen

See, now this is the type of puzzle I can get behind... a distinct tactic with a clear endpoint that isn't 5-7 moves for a +0.5 advantage.

>>22676 That's correct. I hadn't gotten to that one yet.

Anonymous No.23926

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Anonymous No.23944

I still suck at chess

Anonymous No.23990

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>>23944
You just need to practise more, dude.

Anonymous No.23994

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⛵️☎️ No.24146

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>>22385
White: Queen X Bishop, check
Black: Queen X Queen
White: Bishop g2
Black: Queen X Bishop, check
Wow: King X Queen

Actual game: black resigned after Queen X Bishop

Anonymous No.24233

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⛵️☎️ No.24242

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>>22403
White: rook X g6
Black: queen X rook
White: bishop h5
Black: queen X bishop
White: queen X queen, check

Actual game: black resigned after 2 additional moves

⛵️☎️ No.24249

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>>22534
Black: b3, check
White: king X rook
Black: knight b4, check
White: ?
Black: knight X queen

Yeah I fucked it up. No wonder...

The actual game: yet another puzzle where not even the grandmasters played the optimal moves. Bad puzzle.

Anonymous No.24254

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White to play
R Ziatdinov vs Tseshkovsky
https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1387081&m=32

⛵️☎️ No.24330

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>>22606 That was a really interesting game.

>>22772 I can already tell I'm going to fuck this one up.
...
Ok, after trying a bunch of different lines, this puzzle seems to rely on black blundering to make anything significant happen.
The safest line starts with bishop b5 but black has plenty of options.
I expect the "correct" line starts with rook x e6 and relies on black blundering with rook x rook. Aside from that I expect there are too many unforced moves to have a definitive solution.

And then in the actual game.... black blunders with rook x rook and then surrenders after white's next move. Unfortunately this is yet another flawed puzzle.
To clarify, white is ahead, and rook X e6 is the correct starting move. But winning from that point as white requires perfect play in a ridiculously complex situation that can turn around easily, since black has the initiative and white must respond perfectly to any number of viable moves that are not at all obvious. nightmare puzzle.

Anonymous No.24354

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>>24330
>And then in the actual game.... black blunders with rook x rook
It's not so much "blunders" as a forced move. If black doesn't take the rook, the white rook will take the black rook which leads to threatening the queen, being up one pawn and be closer to a check-mate anyways.
Chess is as much forcing a move as making one of your own.

⛵️☎️ No.24355

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>>24354 It's not a forced move though is the thing. It just looks like it is. Leaving it in place is just objectively better. Taking it screws you on the row whereas leaving it complicates things for white and puts black in the driver's seat. I encourage you to load the game into your chess engine of choice and play against the computer and see what you come up with. I did a few times after reasoning through it and was, like i described, immediately thrown into precarious positions from which i couldn't recover, because even though it might technically be something like a mate in 17, I'm just not that good and will blunder my way to a loss. I suppose the puzzle is valuable in that sense even if it is incredibly annoying.

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Anonymous No.24421

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White to play
J Fedorowicz vs J Rizzitano
https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1266687&m=22

Anonymous No.24538

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Anonymous No.24658

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Anonymous No.24865

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White to play
K McDonald vs L Blanco Milhet
https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=3148663&m=71

Anonymous No.24892

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