Tactics theme: Moving a piece to a far away square

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Cavatine

Resolved: "Long distance move" should be one of the Tactics Themes selections.

A general problem in solving a chess puzzle is that it's easy to just focus on one part of the board.  Then it is easy to miss moving a piece six squares away or more.

Recently I played chess with real people in the world and in one game I failed to move my king out of check because I was oblivious to that area of the board.  It was 5 minute chess so I only felt dumb for 5 days.

Then in some tactics puzzles it seems like a glorious solution if the first move has the queen moving six squares. In hiking, it would be like six miles.

And I sort of remember one wonderful puzzle where the solution had three different rook moves from one corner to another.

Thank you, chess friends.

(Moving a piece back towards where it came from is also difficult to see, but that is a different Theme)

mysystem

All good points and beautifully expressed.

Cavatine

Thanks, Keith! I was doing research to add some debate contest terms. I'm glad somebody noticed I posted.

Claesson

Hm, its a good idea but i sort of already think that its implemented as it is now. Since there always a reason WHY you should do the long distance move (covered by another theme) and the difficulty of a long distance move should be taken care by the higher RATING of that puzzle.