Fun fact the oldest daily puzzle on chess.com is wrong
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https://www.chess.com/daily-chess-puzzle/2007-05-08
https://www.chess.com/daily-chess-puzzle/2007-05-08 Now it's a link.
It involves a rook sack for mate, however mate is avoidable
goodapple25 wrote:
It involves a rook sack for mate, however mate is avoidable
No only is it avoidable, it's completely losing for white if the rook is sacrificed. I'm asking about it, but I imagine fixing old daily puzzles might not happen.
The c3 pawn should be at c4, then it would work.
Great observation
This is true. I discovered this in one of my older forums a while back.
https://www.chess.com/forum/view/more-puzzles/the-starter-and-the-first-daily-puzzle-ever-made
ChessDude009 wrote:
This is true. I discovered this in one of my older forums a while back.
https://www.chess.com/forum/view/more-puzzles/the-starter-and-the-first-daily-puzzle-ever-made
Actually, every single comment on the original position is like "Hey there's a mistake."
Isn’t first Qf6 leading to mate? bruh
Wurstzug wrote:
Isn’t first Qf6 leading to mate? bruh
Nope.