Two Move Mate: Difficult

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31st October 2009, 08:02am
#1
by dextorous_demon
New Paltz, New York United States
Member Since: Dec 2007
Member Points: 127

I just recently bought Award Winning Chess Problems for the great price of $6. The great thing about the book, besides being 122 very difficult two move mates, is that, since they are all award winning problems, they are from different sources and therefore avoid the problem of many chess problem books, such as Chess, of producing variations on a theme. If you like this problem, let me know and I'll post some of the more difficult ones.

31st October 2009, 08:44am
#2
by deathbydork
goshen United States
Member Since: Jun 2008
Member Points: 7

Interesting one, Robot. Maybe you can post a more difficult one next?

31st October 2009, 08:48am
#3
by rooperi
Pretoria South Africa
Member Since: Mar 2009
Member Points: 3711

Very hard for a two mover.

31st October 2009, 08:50am
#4
by FunGamesPlease
new paltz United States
Member Since: Jul 2009
Member Points: 2

Lol. You can't imagine my madness when I realized that the pawn was on f2 and not c7!

31st October 2009, 08:59am
#5
by Histers_Commadant
Middlebrook United States
Member Since: Oct 2009
Member Points: 1

Psss. You call that difficult? I've had more difficult dumps in my sleep while I pass a kidney stone from you're mothers grave. Thanks for wasting my time!Tongue out

31st October 2009, 09:37am
#6
by an_arbitrary_name
England
Member Since: May 2009
Member Points: 106

Pretty tricky IMO. Only criticism I have is that there are no board coordinates, making it impossible to say for sure which direction Black's pawn moves in.

Thanks for posting!

31st October 2009, 10:20am
#7
by Nytik
Southampton United Kingdom
Member Since: May 2008
Member Points: 4519

Nice puzzle!

I agree with an_arbitrary_name, you need to have board co-ordinates in your puzzles. Given that we're playing white, you'd think the orientation would be obvious, but you'd be surprised at the number of people who come along and think they're clever with their upside-down boards in their puzzles, making it impossible for us to solve them.

31st October 2009, 03:11pm
#8
by dextorous_demon
New Paltz, New York United States
Member Since: Dec 2007
Member Points: 127

Thanks guys, I WILL have board coordinates in the future puzzles. As a humorous aside, I had to construct this puzzle twice, having deleted the first one- on that first one I had put coordinates, I simply forgot. Glad you all enjoyed it (except for that prk hister {means hitler})lol

31st October 2009, 03:32pm
#9
by NM tonydal
United States
Member Since: Oct 2007
Member Points: 4225

Yeah, what's a 13-year-old doing with a kidney stone anyway? (serves him right though, I must say, for having such a cantankerous disposition).

1st November 2009, 05:12pm
#10
by dextorous_demon
New Paltz, New York United States
Member Since: Dec 2007
Member Points: 127
 

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