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First Puzzle... Tell me what you think!!


  • 5 years ago · Quote · #1

    anyone142313

     Good luck!

  • 5 years ago · Quote · #2

    JuliusH

    good stuff.
  • 5 years ago · Quote · #3

    StacyBearden

    Nice.
  • 5 years ago · Quote · #4

    Ricardo_Morro

    This is lacking in puzzle qualities because the first (and obvious) knight-forking move is decisive, and thereafter there are too many winning continuations for White. There is no reason, for instance, he should not play 3. Rxd8, when he clears both black rooks and gains another queen, or 3. BXb7 etc., instead of the line shown in the solution. Likewise there is no reason for the Black king to walk into mate by taking the White knight; if he does not do this, mate takes at least two more moves instead of one.

    The surprise in a puzzle comes when you can demonstrate a win in a situation in which a win appears to be impossible. 


  • 5 years ago · Quote · #5

    skeptical_moves

    Ricardo_Morro wrote:

    This is lacking in puzzle qualities because the first (and obvious) knight-forking move is decisive, and thereafter there are too many winning continuations for White. There is no reason, for instance, he should not play 3. Rxd8, when he clears both black rooks and gains another queen, or 3. BXb7 etc., instead of the line shown in the solution. Likewise there is no reason for the Black king to walk into mate by taking the White knight; if he does not do this, mate takes at least two more moves instead of one.

    The surprise in a puzzle comes when you can demonstrate a win in a situation in which a win appears to be impossible. 


    i agree.

    and 3. Qd7?? 3. Re8-d8 loses queen. not a good puzzle.

  • 5 years ago · Quote · #6

    PolskaBartlomiej

    I liked it!
  • 5 years ago · Quote · #7

    4moveloss

    black is an awful player
  • 5 years ago · Quote · #8

    cool2titan

    you actually have two options for the last move.... you could have taken the pawn insted of the night.... it was alright

  • 5 years ago · Quote · #9

    Phillip_626

    would not have gone to Qd7, would have taken the rook and got a new queen

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