Post the answers for the holiday chess puzzler 2018 here!

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Angel9505

Thank you so much @checkmate_06!

Rasta_Jay

some of the answers here are wrong..  7.16 and 19 am sure.

Ghostqiuyu

No.

Angel9505

which one was 14?(i already submitted)

Angel9505

anthony you GAVE us 10

Rasta_Jay

9 is 62... Do you know 10 or 12 please..

Rasta_Jay

Thanks.. Btw how do you know its austria? I see on fide pae there are other countries with 7, not austria

Ghostqiuyu

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Checkmate_06

Anthony or Angel or someone can all of you just put all the answers in the order just like I update? I'm confused. Whoever does this will get 10 trophies. PLease do it quick..

 

Rasta_Jay
AnthonyAtanasov wrote:

What I know

2: Wesley So

3: Rook

4: Vladimir Fedoseev

5: Chess.com

6: Jan-Krzystof Duda

7: Anna Rudolf

8: Hou Yifan (Thanks: @MrDreste)

9: 62

10: Stockfish

11: Tractor (Thanks: @KeSetoKaiba)

12: Gawain Jones

13: Rook

14: Robert Hungaski

15: Levon Aronian

16: Austria

17: White wins (checked with tablebase)

18: Anatoly Karpov

19: 14

20: Sam Shankland

 

Done! Submitted.

here checkmate

Checkmate_06

 

Final answers.... Yay!

2: Wesley So

3: Rook

4: Vladimir Fedoseev

5: Chess.com

6: Jan-Krzystof Duda

7: Anna Rudolf

8: Hou Yifan (Thanks: @MrDreste)

9: 62

10: Stockfish

11: Tractor (Thanks: @KeSetoKaiba)

12:  Richard Rapport (Thanks: @playwithafrown)

13: Rook

14: Robert Hungaski

15: Levon Aronian

16: Austria

17: White wins (checked with tablebase)

18: Anatoly Karpov

19: 14

20: Sam Shankland

 

 

Checkmate_06

Thanks to Anthony for doing most of the work

BM_BxKN

Uhhh guys I think there's an issue with 12.... Ima just check again to make sure but I'm pretty sure it's not Gawain Jones

BM_BxKN

Yup, it's wrong. Definitely Richard Rapport.

 

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BM_BxKN

That's the only one I found....

Checkmate_06

Thank you so much @playwithafrown.  You were exceptionally good at finding that. 

BM_BxKN

@Checkmate_06, Did you submit it yet? I hope I wasn't too late.

I justed used Google's reverse search and went through all the Tata Steel tournament pictures.

Bad_Dobby_Fischer
playwithafrown wrote:

That's the only one I found....

i found the exact pic too but why do you all have to spoil the puzzler by letting anyone know the exact answers

IT'S A COMPETITION

Checkmate_06
playwithafrown wrote:

@Checkmate_06, Did you submit it yet? I hope I wasn't too late.

I justed used Google's reverse search and went through all the Tata Steel tournament pictures.

Thank you! I was waiting for all answers. So I did not! Thanks for asking man! Add me as a friend

BM_BxKN
Checkmate_06 wrote:
playwithafrown wrote:

@Checkmate_06, Did you submit it yet? I hope I wasn't too late.

I justed used Google's reverse search and went through all the Tata Steel tournament pictures.

Thank you! I was waiting for all answers. So I did not! Thanks for asking man! Add me as a friend

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