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mickyD
solved it!
jollyrodger
well that has to be the most enjoyable one - thank you
pablosp
Nice one
Lattenkiste
Me likey
jerirose
nice!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
rbk1
good one!
ZacWilson
nice one.
Djazbin
Art of destruction.
Big_Daddy_10
Sac the Rook...Sac the Queen...Smack the King!
Nice Forced Mate and EZ!
dufferps
Nice sequence. Any other response to 1. Rh6, would be followed by 2. Rxh7#
shivam
brilliant puzzle!
h3lo123
love the queen and rook sack
zeph_levin
The lesson as always, queens are only good for sacrificing.
Twobit
The queen again...
wyh2013
very tricky
the art of creating puzzles....
1. what is it that you want? (queen sac and rook sac)
2. place the q and rook, place the king...the way you want...
3. play the sac moves, by placing other pieces like the pawns etc...
3. eliminate possible escapes/alternatives
but the puzzle is still not good as it is too simple...the sequence etc. must be only in this order to be able to mate.... designing this is the difficult part...e.g- the queen checking the king first instead of the bishop...i need help on this!!! how to be able to design this?
i have never made a puzzle but i guess this is how they do it....
atafali_altaf
very good
petty
GooD!!
GoldenFire
Cool puzzle! I wouldnt have saw that coming haha
Kraemer 1948 - White to play and mate in 6. Replay the puzzle after solving it to see some notes.
Very instructive puzzle. I failed to see two aspects of the situation:
1 - that check by the knight would be checkmate, (if only the queen could not capture the knight right off) ... and2 - that black was in zugzwang; could not move anything but the queen and had to keep the queen in position to capture the knight at either of his checking squares.
I was way too overwhelmed by the black queen's "threat" to my rook.
Thanks for the lesson.
Wallyjack
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