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Nelso_125

Puzzle 1: Prepare to kick yourself if you use the 'Help' button:

 



 

 

 

 

 

 

Puzzle 2: I'll give you a hint on this next one, the first promotion is a knight, you'll see why!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Puzzle 3: Another strange occasion...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Puzzle 4: Black had agreed in this game to mirror whites moves. Bad choice! Mate in 4!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Feel free to comment and post your own 'most difficult' chess puzzles.

Mygame5377

The first puzzle was hard nice puzzle's

darksquares

Nice, those are some hard puzzles.  Good job!!!Wink

Nelso_125

Yes, well pointed out, just shows how silly black was to agree to copy everything white did! Wink

FloduQ
tooeasy1 wrote:

 sweet...like ur en passant (think i spelled it wrong lol)


"En passant" is correct :)

daxelson

Re: Puzzle #2 - promotion to N is not required . . .

Sojkicz

daxelson: But what if 1... Bxg2?

Nelso_125

Good job picking these up, has anyone got some of their own 'most difficult?'

Thomas121

Estevon, it's true that the black king can move to h5. But white can simply play Qd3 and avoid the black king run away. After Kh4/Kg4, white plays Qh3#Wink 

lastwarrior2010

easy

donngerard

mos of he ae unusual puzzles but nice! ^_^

donngerard

mos of them are unusual puzzles

i mean

Tiger-13

for the first one, who would use the 'help' button, it's soooooo easy!

Tiger-13

2nd one was very unusual but nice, all the same

Tiger-13

puzzle 3 was even more unusual, but cool moves 2 end the game nice and quick

Tiger-13

the 4th puzzle was quite silly, why wouldn't the black bishop take the white queen

Tiger-13

overall, nice collection of intriguing puzzles, nelso_125

Nelso_125

Cheers everyone! I'm trying to get another puzzle like these 4.

Laughing

ADK

You should have submitted some of these to the DailyPuzzle! : )

ADK

pavandlegend
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