cool little puzzle from a daily game
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Mar 18, 2025
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#41
Tactic I didn't see in one of my games. Always look for hanging pieces!!
hint: first move may not be so intuitive, but think of disrupting black's castling pawns and develop a piece at the same time.
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Tactic I didn't see in one of my games. Always look for hanging pieces!!
hint: first move may not be so intuitive, but think of disrupting black's castling pawns and develop a piece at the same time.
I was black and i knew i missplayed it but i didnt think IT was that bad
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hat geschrieben:
Tactic I didn't see in one of my games. Always look for hanging pieces!!
hint: first move may not be so intuitive, but think of disrupting black's castling pawns and develop a piece at the same time.
I was black and i knew i missplayed it but i didnt think IT was that bad
Didn't want to expose your mistake! Sorry if it was mean haha, I just thought it was a nice exercise
Mar 19, 2025
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#45
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hat geschrieben:
Tactic I didn't see in one of my games. Always look for hanging pieces!!
hint: first move may not be so intuitive, but think of disrupting black's castling pawns and develop a piece at the same time.
I was black and i knew i missplayed it but i didnt think IT was that bad
Didn't want to expose your mistake! Sorry if it was mean haha, I just thought it was a nice exercise
It's OK, we can't even see his name there 🤣Also, we've all blundered far easier to notice than that. Good puzzle, though!
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hat geschrieben:
Tactic I didn't see in one of my games. Always look for hanging pieces!!
hint: first move may not be so intuitive, but think of disrupting black's castling pawns and develop a piece at the same time.
I was black and i knew i missplayed it but i didnt think IT was that bad
Didn't want to expose your mistake! Sorry if it was mean haha, I just thought it was a nice exercise
It's OK, we can't even see his name there 🤣Also, we've all blundered far easier to notice than that. Good puzzle, though!
I blundered my rook twice in the following moves in a similar fashion so I can't say anything ahahaha.
It was a very good game but we both missed some chances to win. In the end it was dead equal but in time scramble I lost, couldn't hold the position under time pressure, especially considering @Thunderstrike3 is a way stronger and more experienced player than me. It was still a confidence booster because I struggle a lot against the sicilian most of the time.
cegalleta hat geschrieben:
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hat geschrieben:
Tactic I didn't see in one of my games. Always look for hanging pieces!!
hint: first move may not be so intuitive, but think of disrupting black's castling pawns and develop a piece at the same time.
I was black and i knew i missplayed it but i didnt think IT was that bad
Didn't want to expose your mistake! Sorry if it was mean haha, I just thought it was a nice exercise
No Problem i have Made far worse mistakes than that it Happens rather frequently
For some of the scotch gambit players out there
edit: I had put the puzzle from white's perspective, it's a line for the black pieces! Fixed it now
First of a series of puzzles! From when my university chess team beat our biggest rivals in our country.
Same tournament, white in the game didn't accept the sacrifices but still lost the game. This is one of the lines if he had fallen in one of the many traps that were set up during that match.
Insane combination. One of many possible lines of the game between Marian Petrov (GM 2470 FIDE) vs Álvaro Valdés (FM 2372 FIDE).
Hint: Pin it to win it.
Note: There are several ways to checkmate here, if you think a line works, check it yourself with the analysis, I just chose the line I answered when I was asked to solve this position, which happens to have insane sacrifices and is also forcing, but it's not the only answer.
Final one! A knightmare 
Gm Andersen vs. GM Pablo Salinas - Chess World Cup 2021
Ok, now it's truly last one, but I had to share this one with you all. Don't feel guilty to use the 'hints' because move 5 is not obvious at all, it's just so you get to play the whole sequence yourselves.
I highly suggest you check out the actual game, it has 1 knight sac, and several queen sacrifices. It's been called 'the chilean immortal', which is a way to say the best match to ever be played by a chilean player.
TheLearnerofGames wrote:
These were hard for me lol!
They are really hard, taken from games from 2200+ players, so don't feel bad to use the hints!
Mar 20, 2025
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#57
RipplingMoonlightCookie wrote:
Game I had, it was 15|10, I was white, opponent was black.
hint is: Pin
I was like: "Why do I feel like I'm losing?" And yes, I believe you wanted to post this from White's perspective.
Mar 20, 2025
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#58
TheLearnerofGames wrote:
These were hard for me lol!
Here are some puzzles for us lower-rated folk:
First:
Second:
Third:
I adhere to GM Ben Finegold's philosophy. Here's a quote of his I really like:
"You're playing blitz chess. You're going to see mate in seven? You're gonna see some long combination that wins material? No! You're never gonna see that. If somebody gives you a puzzle that's tactical and you solve it in forty-five minutes, how does that help you in real life? The answer is it doesn't. What you need to do is do simple tactics, and you have to make simple tactics simpler. So, like, I show you a puzzle, you solve it in five seconds (cause it's easy), and then I show Magnus Carlsen, he solves it in point one seconds, so that means five seconds was too much. That means when you're playing a game, you're gonna miss tactics. And that's what matters in chess: winning and losing pieces. When you're 2300 (which you're not), then you can learn some more stuff. Until then, all you guys are just hanging all your pieces every game."
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TheLearnerofGames wrote:
These were hard for me lol!
Here are some puzzles for us lower-rated folk:
First:
Second:
Third:
I adhere to GM Ben Finegold's philosophy. Here's a quote of his I really like:
"You're playing blitz chess. You're going to see mate in seven? You're gonna see some long combination that wins material? No! You're never gonna see that. If somebody gives you a puzzle that's tactical and you solve it in forty-five minutes, how does that help you in real life? The answer is it doesn't. What you need to do is do simple tactics, and you have to make simple tactics simpler. So, like, I show you a puzzle, you solve it in five seconds (cause it's easy), and then I show Magnus Carlsen, he solves it in point one seconds, so that means five seconds was too much. That means when you're playing a game, you're gonna miss tactics. And that's what matters in chess: winning and losing pieces. When you're 2300 (which you're not), then you can learn some more stuff. Until then, all you guys are just hanging all your pieces every game."
What you say is 100% true and I want to apologize in case I messed up. I truly didn't mean to frustrate anyone, just wanted to show some crazy lines from some games I got to analyze.
Maybe I should've added those games to the "game analysis" one instead, the puzzle format wasn't that great for such complex positions and I should've annotated them as you did with some of your games so we could all discuss the positions better.
Great puzzles, keep up with the good work!
Mar 20, 2025
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#60
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TheLearnerofGames wrote:
These were hard for me lol!
Here are some puzzles for us lower-rated folk:
First:
Second:
Third:
I adhere to GM Ben Finegold's philosophy. Here's a quote of his I really like:
"You're playing blitz chess. You're going to see mate in seven? You're gonna see some long combination that wins material? No! You're never gonna see that. If somebody gives you a puzzle that's tactical and you solve it in forty-five minutes, how does that help you in real life? The answer is it doesn't. What you need to do is do simple tactics, and you have to make simple tactics simpler. So, like, I show you a puzzle, you solve it in five seconds (cause it's easy), and then I show Magnus Carlsen, he solves it in point one seconds, so that means five seconds was too much. That means when you're playing a game, you're gonna miss tactics. And that's what matters in chess: winning and losing pieces. When you're 2300 (which you're not), then you can learn some more stuff. Until then, all you guys are just hanging all your pieces every game."
What you say is 100% true and I want to apologize in case I messed up. I truly didn't mean to frustrate anyone, just wanted to show some crazy lines from some games I got to analyze.
Maybe I should've added those games to the "game analysis" one instead, the puzzle format wasn't that great for such complex positions and I should've annotated them as you did with some of your games so we could all discuss the positions better.
Great puzzles, keep up with the good work!
Don't misunderstand me: you didn't mess up. There are puzzles for all levels and tastes. In general, I do prefer simpler ones, for the reason I stated, but in the end, that's just a matter of preference. I enjoy the challenge of a good puzzle from a grandmaster game every now and then, and there's huge value in the positions you shared, so keep'em coming.
