TheMushroomDealer wrote:
What's the correct move in the last one?
Qd7
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I don't think I should count the first one because I'm familiar with it from a Spassky-Tal game.
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TheGreatOogieBoogie wrote:
I don't think I should count the first one because I'm familiar with it from a Spassky-Tal game.
In fact Rxf3 is not a forced win. Bax6 or cxd4 or Nxd4 are all pretty strong.
It's a bad quiz
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nobodyreally wrote:
titust wrote:
2095! Got all correct! My USCF is 1849, but I'm great at tactics. (pretty sure)
{Spoiler Alert} P.S fritz would get the last one wrong. He doesn't know how to improve pieces
All correct? I had 2235
And they don't award correctly. I checked. Some are just plain wrong.
There are multiple correct moves. For the last one, I played Ba6, which is half credit of Qd7
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Spoiler alert! Press CTRL-a or select all with mouse to see the answers.
1. f6 f3
2. g5 h7
3. c5 c6
4. e5 e6
5. e3 c5
6. g5 f6
7. g6 g5
8. b6 d8
9. d7 b7
10. d8 d7
Score: 2235
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You must have a background installed then. They're typed in white. I can't see them.
wow...1505 to my 1064 OTB rating...
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AKAL1 wrote:
Thanks for the spoilers
You don't HAVE to look at them. 
I don't get the last one.
elo named after andrew elo
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#54
bangalore2 wrote:
I don't get the last one.
It stops g4 for the moment. It prepares a possible Qf5, Qg6 manoeuvre.
It's just a decent move. Some others are too. I said it's a bad quiz.
Horcrux07 wrote:
elo named after andrew elo
Arpad.
Lucky titled players. They have the authority to call stuff bad...
1820
not bad!
I did 3- 1.Ke5 4- 1.e6 so I can make way for the king and the black bishop would be in the way of the king so I could eventually zugzwang black and either sacrifice on g6 (black will want to keep a bishop on e8 to stop it) or elbow out the black king. I almost rejected because after 2.Bxe6? I couldn't find a way to triangulate after 2...Kxe6 3.Ke4,Kf7 4.Ke5,Ke7
Diagram 5 was hard, there were signs of a kingside attack but wondered if I should consolidate before going for a forced attack and calculated the forcing variations and came up with Bh6 even knowing that capturing or ...g6 aren't forced and black has the resource ...Ng6 I'd have to solve.
Diagram 6 is much easier since it's a battle for d5 and Bxf6 and Nd5 are the only serious candidates. I went with Nd5 to increase the tension and give black more options to go wrong. If my mood were different I might have played Bxf6 but don't really like trading bishops for knights. In any event the bishop doesn't do much after Bxf6 whereas the f6 knight is doing plenty especially regarding a d5 thrust where it coordinates with queen, rook, and bishop.
Diagram 7 was easy since I know the common themes and methods of those opening systems, Nh7 with the idea of ...f5 pressuring e4 and playing for a kingside attack (but only if good defense from white doesn't leave me worse off)
Diagram 8 the king is far more active and close to the passed pawn, but I have a bishop against a knight with pawns on both sides. I played Rxe8 seeing no alternative. Besides with a kingside majority and spare passed c-pawn I think my chances are better even after the obvious move. First order of business is centralizing and activating the white king after Rxe8.
Diagram 9 has two bishops against a rook with far better activity. The black queen coordinates with the Rc8 but the c-pawn is defended well enough and the bishops are geared towards an attack. Considering black's pawn majority white wants to win this strategic endgame. Not an easy position and black is better if white isn't accurate enough, Bg6 looked good though there could be a refutation I overlooked.
Diagram 10 I played ...Ne8 because the knight looks like it could fit well on c7 or depending on what white does ...g6 with the idea of Ng7 and Nf5. The position looks like there's plenty of reasonable moves to choose from for black but ...Ne8 seemed most flexible, and not that it immediately matters but also opens up the diagonal for the queen.
2130
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TheGreatOogieBoogie wrote:
I did 3- 1.Ke5 4- 1.e6 so I can make way for the king and the black bishop would be in the way of the king so I could eventually zugzwang black and either sacrifice on g6 (black will want to keep a bishop on e8 to stop it) or elbow out the black king. I almost rejected because after 2.Bxe6? I couldn't find a way to triangulate after 2...Kxe6 3.Ke4,Kf7 4.Ke5,Ke7
Diagram 5 was hard, there were signs of a kingside attack but wondered if I should consolidate before going for a forced attack and calculated the forcing variations and came up with Bh6 even knowing that capturing or ...g6 aren't forced and black has the resource ...Ng6 I'd have to solve.
Diagram 6 is much easier since it's a battle for d5 and Bxf6 and Nd5 are the only serious candidates. I went with Nd5 to increase the tension and give black more options to go wrong. If my mood were different I might have played Bxf6 but don't really like trading bishops for knights. In any event the bishop doesn't do much after Bxf6 whereas the f6 knight is doing plenty especially regarding a d5 thrust where it coordinates with queen, rook, and bishop.
Diagram 7 was easy since I know the common themes and methods of those opening systems, Nh7 with the idea of ...f5 pressuring e4 and playing for a kingside attack (but only if good defense from white doesn't leave me worse off)
Diagram 8 the king is far more active and close to the passed pawn, but I have a bishop against a knight with pawns on both sides. I played Rxe8 seeing no alternative. Besides with a kingside majority and spare passed c-pawn I think my chances are better even after the obvious move. First order of business is centralizing and activating the white king after Rxe8.
Diagram 9 has two bishops against a rook with far better activity. The black queen coordinates with the Rc8 but the c-pawn is defended well enough and the bishops are geared towards an attack. Considering black's pawn majority white wants to win this strategic endgame. Not an easy position and black is better if white isn't accurate enough, Bg6 looked good though there could be a refutation I overlooked.
Diagram 10 I played ...Ne8 because the knight looks like it could fit well on c7 or depending on what white does ...g6 with the idea of Ng7 and Nf5. The position looks like there's plenty of reasonable moves to choose from for black but ...Ne8 seemed most flexible, and not that it immediately matters but also opens up the diagonal for the queen.
The key to # 5 is the e7 square for the knight. Ne7+, Kh8, Rxf8+ etc. That's why Bc5 is the solution.
In #6 Bxf6 just wins a piece because the black queen is undefended. (Standerd combination in the sicilian.)
In #7 Nh7 or g5 or Nc5 are all about equal moves. For them to give g5 as a clear favorite move is nonsense.
In #8 it's all about the c-pawn. Bd8!! cuts of the black pieces. He can never take on d8 because white promotes on c8 or d8. After Bd8!! white can at his leasure play Rb8 next move followed by c7 etc.
In #9 Bg6 is bad because black just takes it with c2 to follow next move. It's a very unclear position and white has many, more or less equal moves. Therefore a bad puzzle.
# 10 see above.
good luck.
Hmf. 1500. Sounds generous, my chess.com online and tactics ratings are sub-1400 and I'm sure I'd be less consistent OTB. Haven't read most of this thread, but a lot of those problems were pretty mysterious to me. Will be interesting to come back later and see if I have improved enough to see some light.
2095! Got all correct! My USCF is 1849, but I'm great at tactics. (pretty sure)
{Spoiler Alert} P.S fritz would get the last one wrong. He doesn't know how to improve pieces
All correct? I had 2235
And they don't award correctly. I checked. Some are just plain wrong.