97% got this chess puzzle wrong! Are you the 4%?

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Morphy v Capablanca 1916 Rematch | New York City | Round 8 | 1-0

Really? Clearly not Paul as he died in 1884
Capablanca was playing in the Rice Memorial Tournament



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Re4+
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Wow! Did not see that; I'm part of the 97% or is it 96%? Since 97 + 4 = 101, I'm not in that 4% crowd. OP great at chess, math, not so much . . .

Avatar of cellomaster8
Lyudmil Tsvetkov is my fav man lol
Avatar of RothKevin

Impressive, The engines can't even find this move Re5

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even stockfish can't do this! nervous.png

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oooooh so the point is to move a5 and not get a perpetural (how to spell it) check and win?

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Actually, if you use a desktop browser to access the Stockfish 9 on this site, it finds both 1.Ree5! and 1.Rf4+ as winning in a few minutes.null

It's possible to eliminate the unwanted 1.Rf4+ solution by starting the e1-R on e6 instead, though this means 1.Re5! is a bit less surprising as it stops 1...Qa1+.

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NonSequitur7 escribió:
cellomaster8 wrote:
I feel like the OP thinks he’s in the top 4%

I actually am.

 

lol your profile picture and the context made it funny xd

Avatar of super9001

Very good puzzle. Simple yet Mind Blowing. Thanks for the share, OP. 

Avatar of number-0

there are many way to tie

Avatar of BigBroChess

The correct answer is 3% not 4.

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OP cannot do math