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Welcome to Puzzle Road! The puzzle I post today comes from my game against someone who was completely underrated! Rating: 700. Playing style: 1,800… The position was draw, until he played Rook h4?? And then, I could win it. It’s incredible how one move can change a complete game! The draw has been converted into a win after this blunder. Do you find the move to make your opponent regret Rook h4? 40/ Make him regret his move! (Topic: pin) Check the solution if you need it: https://www.chess.com/blog/Kyu13/puzzle-road-make-him-regret-his-move-p40 Have fun in playing chess!@Kyu13

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Intermediate

Welcome to Puzzle Road! We’re coming near to the end of Puzzle Road friends, sorry… but we still have a few more puzzles to solve! Let’s go with the 39th! Don’t hesitate to send me your feedbacks in the forums, my blog, or send me a private message! The puzzle of today will handle with a discovered attack and a fork! Yes, I maybe told you too many things about the puzzle and it’s an easy puzzle… but it’s again an important tactic useful to players of every level! Some GM games ends with easy tactics! 39/ Discover the way to win! (Topic: discovered attack) Check the solution here: https://www.chess.com/blog/Kyu13/puzzle-road-discover-the-way-to-win-p39 Have fun in playing chess! @Kyu13

Hello friends!Today, the puzzle won’t be easy! Alright, you will have to find many moves to correctly solve it and you will probably need to take your time to find the right and best and brilliant strategies! I added as topic “chasing the king” but I could have called that Magnet too. Magnet means to force a piece of the opponent to come on a bad square, and then to force him moving on the squares we want by checking the king. Like a magnet! 38/ Let’s start the chase! (Topic: chasing the king) Check the solution in the blog: https://www.chess.com/blog/Kyu13/puzzle-road-lets-start-the-chase-p38 See you tomorrow for the next puzzle!@Kyu13

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Difficult

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Welcome to Puzzle Road! I ‘m sincerely sorry if you find the explanations of the puzzles a bit too small… I am actually very busy with many things. Discord server, chess club, training, and more… But I’m still here to share great puzzles with you! This puzzle now is strange. Why? Because you need (again) to draw instead of finding a tactic to win material or to checkmate the white king! You will probably need a few minutes to find the right first move. Then, the next moves are much easier! 37/ I won’t let you win! (Topic: draw) Solution: https://www.chess.com/blog/Kyu13/puzzle-road-i-wont-let-you-win-p37 Have a good day,@Kyu13

Welcome to Puzzle Road! Today’s puzzle is easier than the previous puzzles, but still needed for a tactic training, because you will always need to checkmate your opponent if this one does not give up! Easy, but necessary. Why I call it easy? Because the moves are completely logical to win the games. You will still need thinking a bit about the puzzle, but it’s easy. 36/ Easy, but necessary. (Topic: mate in 4) Check the solution in my blog: https://www.chess.com/blog/Kyu13/puzzle-road-easy-but-necessary-p36 Have fun in solving this puzzle!@Kyu13

Intermediate

Welcome to Puzzle Road! Here we have a puzzle where we could first think that White is losing because of the pin on the e-column. But we can play a brilliant great excellent beautiful move to win the game! Indeed, the black king is less protected, we have the bishop pair attacking the opponent’s king and our queen controls a few squares. This is a magnific example to show that tactics are everywhere (in lost positions too!) The queen is pinned, true, the king has not castled, true, but we win because of the activity of our pieces and the f-column that’s open. 35/ Did you think I gave my Queen? (Topic: out of the pin) Find the solution there: https://www.chess.com/blog/Kyu13/puzzle-road-did-you-think-i-gave-my-queen-p35 Have fun in playing chess!@Kyu13

Very difficult

Welcome to Puzzle Road! Today is he day, when you will have to take an important decision for the puzzle, instead of just trying to find a move. In chess, you will always find many possible moves, and sometimes you can think one is better than the other. Obviously, it’s your decision and everyone has a different opinion. Moreover, a parameter in your choice can be the time control: instead of making a draw in a position where your opponent has an advantage but less time, you could possibly choose to continue the game and try making your opponent fall because of time. It the following position, I made a choice (I won’t say it you to not influence you) and I don’t regret it. Indeed, my first possibility was to try pushing the pawns and try making a Queen before my opponent. My second possibility was to protect the a-pawn and to try resisting to the push on the queen side. And my first and last possibility was a draw, because of the repetition I could make. 34/ Which decision did you take? (Topic: important decisions in chess) All the posibilities/variants and explanations, you can find them there: https://www.chess.com/blog/Kyu13/puzzle-road-which-decision-did-you-take-p34 Have a good thinking time!@Kyu13

Welcome to Puzzle Road! We’re back to the endgames puzzles! Alright, today we will analyze one of the endgames I played today against a friend (this friend will recognize himself) and saw the right move, but still played a blunder… I seriously don’t know why I did not play that, what I calculated! The move here does not allow Black to stalemate in this position. Moreover, maybe we can force our opponent to play nonsense moves? Let’s see how and why! But first, you will have to try yourself solving this puzzle. Else, it would not be called Puzzle Road! 33/ Avoiding the stalemate! (topic: stalemate, checkmate, and pawn promotion + tempos) You need help? No problem! Check the solution there: https://www.chess.com/blog/Kyu13/puzzle-road-avoiding-the-stalemate-p33 Have an excellent day full of endgames!Good luck!@Kyu13

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