No.307504 [View All]
Black to play
S Schweber vs Spassky
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No.410341
>>405576
>tfw you will never get to eat a chesscake in this life
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No.410457
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No.410530
>>409156
Rook takes knight.
Then either pawn takes rook and a4-a3 blocking in white rook followed by king takes white pawn and c5 pawn promoting to queen followed by checkmate. Or rook takes bishop, rook takes rook, a4 promotes to queen. Etc.
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No.410535
Anyone here a fan of chess variants? Trying to get into spartan chess myself. Very counter intuitive and it seems like black has more of an advantage than white.
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No.410538
>>410535
Added a quick and brief description of piece moves/rules. Apologies for double posting.
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No.410567
White to play
Dautov vs M Schoene
>>410538
Nice idea. But I want to get my normal chess to a decent level before trying the variants.... That said, spartan chess sounds more fun than elf chess or star trek 3d chess.
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No.410632
>>410567
Thanks for all these nice puzzles, anime-poster.Rh4 Qd3 Rf4+ Ke5 Qg5+ Qf5 Re1+ Re2 Rxe2#
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No.410647
Black to play
N Bijlsma vs D Brandenburg
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No.411284
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No.411398
Black to play
I Veinger vs G Timoshchenko
>>411284
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No.411442
>>411398
Bxf3+ Kxf3 Qc6+ Kf2 Qxh1
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No.411548
>>410647
Nxc2+ is the move. Bxc2 Nc3+ Ba4 Qxa4# Qxc2 gives the same pattern. Kb1 Bb3 A quiet move to prevent the king's escape. White's helpless here. May as well take the knight, but taking with the queen is losing. Bb3 Bxc2 Nc3+ bxc3 Qa2#
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No.411796
White to play
Morozevich vs Tkachiev
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No.411824
>>411796
Rf8+ The rook-sack wins the black queen. Rf8+ Rxf8 Qxe2
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No.411855
>>382164
Qf3 threatens both mate on f8 and the bishop on c6. Too much for black's shaky position. Bxe4 Qf8+ Rxf8 Rxf8#
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No.411996
>>411824
I prefer Rxg7+ imminent checkmate
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No.412014
>>411996
Yeah, you're right. Rxg7 Kxg7 Rg5+The king goes to either h6 or h8, and gets caught with Qf6#.
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No.412035
>>382035
Qxd1+ Bxd1 Re1#
>>381274
Qa3 Beautiful move. bxa3 b2#
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No.412036
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No.412047
>>379214
Raxe2+ Rxe2 Rg1+ Kf2 Rxb1
>>380224
Kawaii. Qh8+ Bxh8 Rxh8#
>>380373
f5! Awkward white pieces, and no useful discovery. Rh4 Bxg5 -- Ng7 also looks good, since the rook's in a pin and g4 is covered by the pawn. Bxg5 Rxh5 Bxd2
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No.412186
>>379075
Rxc4+ Kxc4 Ra4+ Kd3 Rxh4 Wins a pawn, and probably a second one, with a winning position.
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No.412211
>>378135
Rc2 Deadly pin. None of the checks with the white queen do anything useful. The rook's gonna get taken.
>>377947
Nxg6+ hxg6 Qh4+ Bh6 Qxh6#
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No.412341
Solving more of these old puzzles.
>>377103
Rxh7 Kxh7 Qh4+ Kg7 Qh6#
>>376944
Rxh6+ gxh6 Qxh6+ Kg8 Qh7#
>>376019
Qxe6 Bxe6 or Nxe6 Nb6#
>>375830
Qxf2+ Kh1 Qxf1# Qxf2+ Rxf2 Rb1# Making use of the pin with the bishop. This pattern comes up pretty often.
>>374950
Qc7+ Black has two options here. Qe7 loses to Rg7+ Kg7 Qxe7. Qc7+ Ke8 Re1+ Black's losing his queen again, and getting mated.
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No.412963
Black to play
S Volkov vs Svidler
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No.413589
White to play
V Gunina vs E Ovod
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No.413678
Black to play
R Baron vs C Debray
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No.413682
>>307504
Can’t tell if this is a joke.
Queen to H1. Checkmate.
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No.413693
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No.413707
>>413693
not the guy you're replying to, but yea, that'd be a terrible move that'd result in the king wiping all the big pieces if you kept pushing.
queen to d4. King can't move this way
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No.413757
>>413707
Still not as decisive as the Rd1 solution given at the start of the thread. White moves Re3 and blocks the check.
I haven't played chess since Grade 8, when our teacher made us all sign up for a tournament despite most of us (myself included) barely knowing how to play. In one game I lost after only five or six moves.
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No.414053
>>412963
Rh2+ forces Nxh2, Rxh2#
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No.414167
White to play
Ivanchuk vs Kramnik
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No.414177
>>414167
The only move to avoid checkmate is Qxg4, so at least that much of the solution is obvious. From there I see some paths to white victory, I'm not entirely sure whether or not black still has a chance at that point though.
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No.414180
>>414167
Is Ivanchuk also retired? RIP, old man Kramnik.
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No.414184
>>414177
>The only move
Actually, scratch that. You could also prevent the check with h3. Though my original answer seems to have been the real move.
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No.414443
Black to play
Larsen vs Najdorf
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No.415093
>>413589
Well, the knight's just hanging. Black can't recapture after you've taken it with your rook due to the weakness on g7. No counterplay.
>>413678
Nb4! Rxd3 Nc2+ Kb1 Nxa3+ bxa3 Rxd3 Cute series of checks. In the end, black's up an exchange, and has a winning position.
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No.415537
Black to play
Koneru vs C Waters
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No.415551
>>415537
Bg2 Deadly, silent move. Mate's threatened on both h1 and h2, and white can't cover both threats. Bxf1 is just an exchange after Bxf1 Bxg5.
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No.415690
>>414443
Rxh3+, xh3 Qxh3+, Qh2 Nf2#.
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No.415777
>>414167
>>414177
Qxg4 Qxg4 Nh6# It doesn't just win a knight: It's mate. After the capture of the black knight, white is easily winning.
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No.415816
>>415777
But are there moves other than Qxg4 that can leave black, though still badly losing, at least not a move away from mate? What would happen after Rxf7 instead?
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No.415985
>>415816
Qxg4 Rxf7 exf7+ Kf8 Qxc8+ Bxc8 Bg7+ Kxg7 f8=Q# is a cool line
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No.416021
Black to play
Larsen vs Ljubojevic
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No.416022
>>416021
Qf2!! Can't take the bishop due to Qxf1#, and the rook has to guard the first rank, so the queen's safe. Rg1 Bxg2+ Rxg2 Rc1+ Rg1 Qxg1#
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No.416269
>>409896
>>410226
>that solution
Very nice.
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No.416652
Black to play
Vaganian vs A Planinc
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No.417407
Very few of the puzzles are loading. I get blank blue space where there should be a chess board. What's going on?
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No.417421
>>417407
Board got spammed hard.
Mods were asleep.
Everything save a few threads pushed off.
Restored from archive, however, images fucked.
Details in the meta thread.
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No.417619
>>417421
Sad to hear, mate.
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