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2/18/2012 - Adams - Torre, New Orleans 1925


  • 16 months ago · Quote · #121

    lph

    hmmmm? interesting

  • 16 months ago · Quote · #122

    chuckchess

    Last, hopefully

  • 16 months ago · Quote · #123

    PJAJ4321

    I don't get it

  • 16 months ago · Quote · #124

    briansladovich

    MartinUKL wrote:

    Why did the black Queen not take the white after the first move?.


    Mate in 2. Check it out.

  • 16 months ago · Quote · #125

    RenataCFC

    That was so cool.

    I'm glad I saw the idea, but I was pretty much lost for the details after the first move.  Which is why those guys were playing at international level and I'm not. :)

  • 16 months ago · Quote · #126

    domalius

    rather difficult problem, very nice

  • 16 months ago · Quote · #127

    leandron

    am I missing something? (why wouldn't black take the white queen during any of the first 4 moves??)

  • 16 months ago · Quote · #128

    daxternator

    hmm

  • 16 months ago · Quote · #129

    BlackManGoD

    great puzzle

  • 16 months ago · Quote · #130

    carovalencia

    Tricky!

  • 16 months ago · Quote · #131

    inhouse

    My fingers are tired from hitting the help button.

  • 16 months ago · Quote · #132

    RenataCFC

    dufferps wrote:

    I started out okay, but move 3 -- the pawn threat -- eluded me. 

    Similarly, the rook to e4 eluded me, but now I see the point behind that combination.  With both the black queen and black rook threatening the rook at e2, white's threat by capturing the b7 pawn when black's queen was in the b file would not work - black would attack e2. 

    Too difficult for me, though I got some of the tactics white was using.


    Thanks duffer -- the threat to e2 is what eluded me.  I mistakenly thought the pawns could cover a4.  In retrospect, got everything but that.

  • 16 months ago · Quote · #133

    chessleogeo

    Had trouble with this one, and I didn't get the ending

  • 16 months ago · Quote · #134

    maxisku2

    Great puzzle!

  • 16 months ago · Quote · #135

    leonelcm

    A classical and very interesting game, but the players were C. Torre with white pieces and E. Z. Adams with black. The game took place in 1920, in New Orleans. Thanx for sharing...

  • 16 months ago · Quote · #136

    pbazan

    Very nice!

  • 16 months ago · Quote · #137

    melvinbluestone

    Hilarious! the way the black queen gets chased around the board, unable to capture the white queen, because it can't quit control of e8. But it looks like 2.a4! immediately would have worked for the same reason..... Or am I missing something?

  • 16 months ago · Quote · #138

    idraz

    hard

  • 16 months ago · Quote · #139

    gerfinn

    I had to play this a few times before it made any sense.  The trick is, what would happen once the black queen loses the diag. line she's on.  Too hard for me, but I sure learned from this puzzle.

  • 16 months ago · Quote · #140

    Matt472

    Hardest daily puzzle ever!Laughing


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