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Kacparov

This puzzle was shown me by my coach yesterday. The position in the diagram appeared after 4 white moves and 4 black moves. It's now white to play his 5th move. All the moves played were legal. How did the players get to this position?
Note: this is a very hard puzzle. There is an anectode that it took the USSR national team 20 minutes to solve, and it had such great players as Tal, Polugaevsky, Petrosian etc.! It took me (with help of my brother) almost 1 hour to solve. Please don't answer if you have already seen it :-)
andropov

Should the moves make sense, or is it allowed to do moves that would not be good if you would try to win the game?

SimonSeirup

Yeah, i know that one ;)

IM Klaus Berg showed that one, and one more at the same kind, at a chesscamp this summer :) Klaus told us, that his friend GM Nigel Short showed him them.

This is a very beautiful puzzle!

khpa21

The only way is if Black is giving d-pawn odds.

 

EDIT: manymercsmike has it. What a sick crux.
Mathematicus

i figured it out after some experimenting

heinzie

http://www.chess.com/forum/view/more-puzzles/4-move-debut

SimonSeirup
manymercsmike wrote:

Is this it?  It works, but it's weird even playing it out.

1. e4 e6

2. Bb5 Ke7

3. Bxd7 c6

4. Be8 Kxe8


We have a winner!

birdboy1

psulax6

AWESOME Puzzle!!!!!!!!  I got hung up on trying to triangulate the king with a bishop capture to "waste" the move. 
vowles_23

Haha, I'm going to show that to someone, some day.. :D

grantchamp
grantchamp

Why doesn't that work?

Sangwin

ok now I feel stupid, lol sweet puzzle!

SimonSeirup
grantchamp wrote:

Why doesn't that work?


Because black 4th move have to be done to. In your way, black has only done 3 moves.
As Kacparov said: "It's now white to play his 5th move"

Kacparov

That's a quick answer! And sorry, I didn't see that topic...

ll931110_again

Hey mate, how could I find such puzzles like this? They are quite interesting!

heinzie

Try

http://www.janko.at/Retros/Shorties/01.htm

and

http://anselan.com/CHE.html

and

http://abrobecker.free.fr/chess/IntroductionToPGs.pdf

Kacparov

You need a coach who knows many puzzles :)

gorgeous_vulture

A semi reversed bongcloud opening ? Laughing

birdboy1

yes nick young, and just as in the regular bongcloud opening, the player who moved his king out first has a decisive advantage.