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19th October 2008, 07:33pm
#1
by bobobbob
Dallas, Texas United States
Member Since: Feb 2008
Member Points: 885

Here is a puzzle from Chess Life, in the Benko's Bafflers. I'd be surprised if anyone can solve this one!

White to play and win, by J. Gunst and Richard Becker.

20th October 2008, 07:23am
#2
by nantucket
Budapest Hungary
Member Since: Sep 2008
Member Points: 3

It is indeed hard. I could never solve a puzzle that hard, but it was very nice. Thank you for the post.

20th October 2008, 07:58am
#3
by timepass
Bangalore India
Member Since: May 2008
Member Points: 501

good one on the endgame....getting the kings on the same file for the race

20th October 2008, 05:10pm
#4
by hampton
columbus,oh United States
Member Since: Oct 2007
Member Points: 9

interesting game, had me guessing !

20th October 2008, 05:29pm
#5
by onosson
Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada
Member Since: Oct 2007
Member Points: 728

I definitely had to make more than a couple of guesses!

20th October 2008, 05:30pm
#6
by MY_turn
India
Member Since: Oct 2008
Member Points: 26

good one......

21st October 2008, 04:46pm
#7
by grs_mys
mysore India
Member Since: Aug 2008
Member Points: 29

i was hard.. had to make a lot of guesses..

21st October 2008, 05:10pm
#8
by kid_of_chess
Ottawa,Ontario Canada
Member Since: May 2008
Member Points: 7426

omg!!!!!!!!! cool!

21st October 2008, 05:28pm
#9
by lotus_elise
olongapo Philippines
Member Since: Aug 2008
Member Points: 429

nice:)

30th November 2008, 05:13am
#10
by etarnal
singapore Singapore
Member Since: May 2008
Member Points: 389

had to make alot of guesses at the first few moves... after that it was almost like repeating... amazing how u can checkmate with one bishop and kind coz of the black pawn... lol...

30th November 2008, 05:20am
#11
by xbigboy
Minnesota United States
Member Since: Oct 2007
Member Points: 2936

I had to guess the entire way! (okay, maybe I'm exaggerating a little bit)

30th November 2008, 05:28am
#12
by RELee1863
Raleigh,NC United States
Member Since: Mar 2008
Member Points: 338

that was not that hard, though it was a nice endgame i enjoyed doing it

30th November 2008, 05:39am
#13
by Sojkicz
Liberec Czech Republic
Member Since: Aug 2008
Member Points: 1266

nice... I didn't know what I'm going to do but I played similar to what would I do in my game and it almmost worked :D thought I would never sacrificed knight at the end...

30th November 2008, 05:54am
#14
by Summum_Malum
Copenhagen Denmark
Member Since: Jun 2008
Member Points: 587

Nice game! I don't think it was too hard - not saying I could have done it in a blitz though.

30th November 2008, 02:48pm
#15
by Sam258
United States
Member Since: Nov 2008
Member Points: 7

Nice game really hard.

30th November 2008, 03:06pm
#16
by Skeptikill
Vancouver Canada Ireland
Member Since: Feb 2008
Member Points: 1364

i got most of the moves. not boasting or anything. Not a un-understandable puzzle.its on a level i can understand.

 

All the same its a very nice puzzle and show some good fundamentals of tempos!

1st December 2008, 03:59pm
#17
by jsansom19
Asheville, North Carolina United States
Member Since: Oct 2008
Member Points: 49

HA...solved it...one wrong move at a time...nice puzzle

1st December 2008, 06:24pm
#18
by Gothmogsbane
United States
Member Since: Mar 2008
Member Points: 17

Brilliant puzzle

7th December 2008, 04:27pm
#19
by nizamious
townsville Australia
Member Since: Jul 2008
Member Points: 142

Coolsolved it but with errors( 4-5 errors)

7th December 2008, 04:35pm
#20
by ADK
United States
Member Since: Aug 2007
Member Points: 16871

That was defintely HARD!

ADK

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