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White's Move: Mate in 2
Rebuilding a newer (hopefully stronger) chess puzzle thread,
Enjoy! & Happy Mayday.
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No.418577
White to play
Timman vs Short
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No.418660
Black to play
Aarland vs Shirov
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No.418676
>>418577
Smothered mate. Qg8+ Rg8 Nf7#
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No.418729
Can anyone give me a tl;dr on how these puzzles work? I've seen them forever in things like the newspaper and never really knew what the goal was.
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No.418738
>>418660
My first thought was g2+, since either Bxg2 or Kxg2, followed by Qh2 is either checkmate or unavoidably leading to one, but I overlooked Qxg2 by white, and I don't see a straightforward mate from there.
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No.418827
>>418729
With chess puzzles, you want to find a solution that gives you a winning advantage in material or checkmate against best play from the other side. Do you know the rules of chess?
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No.419173
>>418660
>>418738
g2+ Qxg2 Nf2+ Kg1 Nxd1+ This wins due to the dobule-check. White's forced to meekly move the king out of the way to f1. It's a rook for a pawn. After Kf1 Nc3, Black ends up with an extra minor piece plus pawn.
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No.419368
White to play
Serbe vs Wohlhaupt
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No.419390
>>419368
Qxd6 Kxd6 Ne4+ Kc7 Nxc3. White wins a piece and the game. The black king can't move to e2 and then take the bishop since it's protected by the rook.
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No.419662
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No.419735
Black to play
Karsten Larsen vs A Rustemov
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No.419830
White to play
Sadler vs D Leal
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No.419898
>>419662
Re6+. Diverts the black rook, so the pawn can become a queen on d8.
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No.420231
>>419735
Qf1+ Kc2 Nd4+! cxd4 Qxf7 Discovered attack to win the white queen.
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No.420232
>>419830
Bxf6 Kxf6 Ne4+ Rxe4 fxe4 In this one, the discovery wins the exchange.
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No.420449
White to play
Euwe vs S Van Mindeno
Black queen pic from https://monable.artstation.com/projects/n18a6
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No.420639
>>420449
White Queen works the hardest in chess puzzles. Haha.
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No.420676
>>420449
Qxf7 Rxf7 Re8++
Qxf7 Kh8 Qxf8++
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No.420853
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No.420916
>>418307
>puzzlerush
No interest? It's fun.
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No.421124
White to play
Sveshnikov vs Shcherbakov
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No.421149
>>421124
I thought I was on the right track with Nf5 Nxe5, Nh6+ Kg7/Kh8, Bxe5+, until I got to Kxh6 if he'd gone Kg7 before.
Prior to that I'd suspected Qg7+ had to be the right move to avoid Nxe5, which would both take the queen and block the bishop, and my original thought was right. Qg7+ Kxg7, Nf5+ Kg8, Nh6#.
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No.421216
White to play
I Sokolov vs T Beerdsen
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No.421485
>>421216
Rf6. There's no good defense against the threat of Rxh6. Rf6 g6 drops the knight with check. The queen sacrifice looks awful. Rf6 Kg8 Rxh6 gxh6 Qf5. There's no move for black to avoid mate.
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No.421816
White to play
G Grasser vs Errol Singh
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No.422293
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No.422427
>>421816
Don't you just take the pawn with the bishop? That obligates the rook to take otherwise the king just runs away for a bit and gets mated.
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No.422685
>>421816
>10 days ago
Where are you, puzzlebro?
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No.422747
>>422427
Yes, Bxf7+ begins cracking black's defense.
>>422685
Thanks for the concern but I been busy at work; extra shifts. Nothing untoward has happened to me.
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No.422867
Black to play
Yates vs Nimzowitsch
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No.422899
White to play
Miles vs C W Pritchett
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No.422921
>>422867
Got to divert the white queen. Rd1+ forces Qxd1. Qa2+ Kc1 Ba3 Bb2 Qxb2#
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No.423131
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No.423262
Black to play; A Franck vs Portisch
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No.423727
Black to play
A Hahn vs A Pixton
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No.423790
>>423727
I'm really bad at chess, even against an easy AI I don't think more than 1-2 moves ahead.
With these puzzles, does it always assume the "to play" players are the ones that win? Or do you just find the optimal 2-3 moves on each side until you mate?
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No.423793
>>423790
Most puzzles you see are going for mate. Occasionally, and it is more in books, that you'll see a "no win" puzzle, that instead results in board supremacy.
I lost most of my ability to chess. It was when I was a kid I was able to do these well. Probably should reread my two beginner books I still have.
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No.423794
>>423790
I'm no good either. The only ones I usually get are the completely forced ones, where it's a continuous series of checks until mate.
I had to look up the answer to >>422899 and I STILL don't get what makes it decisive.
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No.423803
>>423794
>>422899
At first glance I thought it would be moving Queen to f6, but I didn't notice the bishop. I do'nt see how moving white bishop to e5 would end the game either.
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No.423806
>>423803
>>423794
Be5 ends the game because it forces black Queen to capture Rd7, any other move black makes will end in an immediate checkmate loss for him. If black captures the white Bishop with any of his Rooks White can immediately respond with Qxg7 checkmate. If black captures the white Bishop with his own Bishop he ends up disconnecting his Rooks so white can play QxRe8 Check, forcing black to move his king to h7. Then white Queen to g6 Check, BK to h8, white Rook to d7 Checkmate.
Black's only chance to stay in the fight after white Bishop to e5 is QxRd7. Even then it becomes quite a hard fight for Black.
Also the puzzle is less about immediately ending the game and just instead picking the best move. White is in a precarious situation as well as one bad move can immediately end in checkmate since the white King has no flight squares.
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No.423834
>>423727
After Bf3, exf3 is the only move to prevent mate. exf3 exf3 White can't stop the mate on g2.
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No.423837
Hey chess poster instead of conspiracy theorizing in the meta thread I figured I'd just ask. What is with all of the image reposting? Either you're posting these same exact images all over the place, or it looks like you're scraping them from other posts to repost along with chess puzzles.
I know this doesn't have anything to do with chess, sorry for the off topic post, but this shit has been bugging me for a long time.
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No.424524
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No.424567
>>423837
Just cross check them with the file names. If the file names are intact and identical, then odds are they're the same person (scraping would only save the upload order to infinity, not the original file name (and yes, it's the same person. See >>423877 of the meta thread for more info. Follow the reply chain to see more drama if you haven't already (and hopefully you don't use VPN, lest chrow attack you for being you, me, and everyone else who dares make mention of this glaringly obvious issue)
Sage, because I said I was leaving, but found myself here not but a week later.
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No.424931
A bit off-topic, but there's a really nice chess blitz event on chess.com's twitch channel: Firouzja vs. Wei Yi. Lots of tactics.
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No.424933
>>424567
Imagine being this much of a whiny bitch because you got called out for being a dumb faggot.
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No.424941
>>424933
No fair, I wanna be part of this sage party too.
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No.425091
Black to play
Bologan vs Bacrot
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No.425157
>>425091
Nc1+ Ka1 Nb3# White can throw the rook in the way of the check, but it only delays things for a turn.
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No.425232
>>425157
Checkmate next move after that.
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