Easy Puzzle for the 800 or under crowd

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I'm not 800 or under, but since no one posted anything I decided to solve it.

Generally, for puzzles, people don't post replies. Although for difficult puzzles, it might get some replies.

I don't post a lot of puzzles,  but some are from from my own games, and some are chess compositions I get off the internet.

oh, ok

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You must not realize this: You can just solve the puzzle by moving the pieces on the board. Anybody can see the answer by clicking the HINT button (looks like a light bulb), in the lower left hand corner of the diagram.

If you click the board button when doing a post, you can set up a position, then add moves from that point. After you do that, go the THEMES section and select PUZZLE, and when you post the diagram, the board will start at the position you set up, then all the moves you added next (you can do this by moving pieces on the diagram), will become puzzle moves. Example, if you do a mate-in-four, the puzzle will ask the first move, then the next move, etcetera, until you finish all the moves, which then "SOLVED" pops up.

The HINT button doesn't solve the entire problem, just the move your stuck on.

Nice got it!

For some reason I can't open any posted game or puzzle.

that's why I wrote the answer

Good puzzle! Got to block d6!

You can't just move the pieces? You don't open up anything. You just move the pieces on the diagram.

The question we have all been conniving for is: who is this a difficult puzzle for?

I don't think it really matters. I think it's good for rank beginners just starting out, or have never really broken the 800 barrier.

Like I said earlier, most puzzles don't get any replies at all. It's just a puzzle. Enjoy if they  want, or they decide it's too easy for them to solve.

I would postulate that the average person under 800: have them do several hundred mate-in-one puzzles, and several hundred 1-move-tactics without mate, and and several hundred 1-move-defense puzzles and they'll far far stronger than what they started as. I can't say exactly how much they would improve, but they would be ready for 2 move problems after that.

But tactics cannot be the solution to practically everything. Take the instance of me, someone with a near 2100 puzzle rating but a very puny everything else. I feel as though during games here online, I become automatically bestowed with the ability to become tactically blind.

Caesar49bc before the last update I had to open the game or puzzle and then I would be able to move the pieces on the diagrams, now I can't anymore. I'm playing on mobile so maybe it's a bit different for me, for example I can't reply to your specific post, and can't make different paragraphs when I write.

Because not all 1200 rating puzzles are often that easy and we often tend to think "Ah, the puzzle is so low rated, it must be easy" and we fall into a rather obvious trap.

The fair mix of missing a 1200 tactic and spotting a 2000 tactic is the reason why the overall tactics rating tends to balance out to around 1800.

Ahh. I use Chrome browser for foeum stuff.