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22nd December 2008, 02:04am
#1
by paradigm3d
Pasay, NCR Philippines
Member Since: Nov 2008
Member Points: 53

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

White to play and mate in 2 moves!!!

22nd December 2008, 02:05am
#2
by Nytik
Southampton United Kingdom
Member Since: May 2008
Member Points: 4668

Nice puzzle.

What  I want to know is how the white king got caged like that!

22nd December 2008, 02:07am
#3
by paradigm3d
Pasay, NCR Philippines
Member Since: Nov 2008
Member Points: 53

i am wondering that too :)

22nd December 2008, 02:43am
#4
by rich
My Home United Kingdom
Member Since: Jul 2007
Member Points: 23115

How quaint.

28th January 2009, 01:22am
#5
by aristeidis9
Thessaloniki Greece
Member Since: Nov 2007
Member Points: 3146

A classic example of zugswang is a Capablanva's game:

http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1316944

28th January 2009, 01:41am
#6
by Atinau
Jerusalem Israel
Member Since: Oct 2008
Member Points: 123

very realistic position ;-)

28th January 2009, 02:22am
#7
by HotFlow
KL, Malaysia Malaysia
Member Since: Sep 2007
Member Points: 2256

That exact position happened to me just last week.

28th January 2009, 10:31am
#8
by JATAJATA
Medellin Colombia
Member Since: Jan 2009
Member Points: 8
paradigm3d wrote:

 

 

 

 What happen if  Bc7?  

 

 

 

 

White to play and mate in 2 moves!!!

28th January 2009, 10:33am
#9
by Nytik
Southampton United Kingdom
Member Since: May 2008
Member Points: 4668
HotFlow wrote:

That exact position happened to me just last week.

Yeah, sure, this is one of those unrealistic problems that only exist to quench the thirst of problem-solvers!

29th January 2009, 04:47pm
#10
by Tiger-13
Sydney Australia
Member Since: Dec 2008
Member Points: 1277

das ist cool

 
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