Chess paradoxes

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SOTNpsx

I just played a 15+10 game and after 26 moves this position was reached. I was white and I played g4. Black to move. Can you find the best move?

 

To my surprise, analyzing the game I realized that I had a move at my disposal and would have kept the game even. But it is a paradoxical move...

 

Chess paradoxes, or obvious moves you don't see when you're a patzer like me.

colorfulcake

that's weird... it's definitely not obvious, and you're no patzer

SOTNpsx
colorfulcake escribió:

that's weird... it's definitely not obvious, and you're no patzer

Indeed. After the game, when I was analyzing with the engine I only put the evaluation and when I saw that after Ke7 there was equality I was like "what? but I have nowhere to put the rook!" lol. I'm not much of posting on the forums, but I was curious to see if anyone has a game or a puzzle with a "paradoxical move" like this.

JustinPreynolds

it is ez

 

 

BishopTakesH7

Wow.

BishopTakesH7

Maybe not paradoxical, but still a very hard tactic I did not see in the game:

 

JustinPreynolds

give me your best Puzzles

nirupadhiksamudra

Great one. Enjoyed.

BishopTakesH7
Why there's three g-pawns is funny enough, but even more paradoxical is that they resigned:
 
 
Marcyful

That should be a type of chess.com puzzle: Finding obscure critical moves that don't lose you material.