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  Patzer24
  #1 Sep 21, 2007

  Hello Chess.com members! Would you like to be involved in the "Daily Puzzle"? Well here is your chance!

   

  We are now accepting submissions for the daily puzzle. All you have to do is message user DailyPuzzle with the puzzle position in FEN format along with the solution and the level of difficulty (easy, medium, hard).

   

  Could you be the one to confuse the Chess.com members with the ULTIMATE puzzle? 

  
  
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  Daemon_Panda
  #2 Sep 22, 2007
  dun dun dunnnn...
  
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  TonightOnly
  #3 Sep 24, 2007
  So how do you create an FEN version of a puzzle?
  
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  erik
  #4 Sep 24, 2007
  you can also submit in PGN format :)
  
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  miyagi
  #5 Sep 25, 2007
  White mates in 2 moves

  
  
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  pawnshover
  #6 Sep 26, 2007

  A couple of usual rules for chess puzzles I've usually found are that you must specify if en passant is possible and you must specify if castling is possible. FEN notation takes care of this with the fileds following the position.

  1. White's always on the bottom. Pieces use the initials from algebraic notation. (P=pawn, N=Knight, B=Bishop, R=Rook, Q=Queen, and K=King. The White pieces are capitalized and the Black pieces use little letters. Ranks are separated using /. They always list the piees starting in the upper left and going across each rank then down to the next rank. Numbers denote how many empty squares ina row.
  2. Whose move? Use "w" for White and "b" for Black.
  3. If either side can castle then KQkq is used to denote who and where. Remeber Capitals mean White pieces. K is for Kingside and Q is for Queenside.
  4. Any en passant target squares are given in algebraic notation.
  5. Number of plys for the fifty move rule.
  6. Move number.

  For example this is the FEN of the starting position... (the "-" denotes no en passant.)

  rnbqkbnr/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RNBQKBNR w KQkq - 0 1

  
  
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  shalapko
  #7 Sep 30, 2007

  i fond it

  yes

  
  
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  saikeshav
  #8 Oct 25, 2007
  i found it.it is a tuf one
  
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  CheckThis1
  #9 Nov 5, 2007
  mate in 2
  the difficuty is easy......
  
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  Sprite
  #10 Nov 5, 2007
  Chesscrazy127, that's a good example of a smothered mate, but isn't checkmate as white can play 2.Kxa2 and avoid the mate.
  
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  oginschile
  #11 Nov 5, 2007

  True, Nxa2 isn't forced, but 2. Kxa2 is mated by 2... Ra7#. Since the puzzler doesn't 'make' white's move... you simply have to respond to the move made.

  The smothered mate isn't forced, but it is a forced mate in 2.

  
  
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  xalways
  #12 Nov 17, 2007
  Not my originality but i would like to share it with you all. An easy puzzle mate in 3.
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  AnnoR88
  #13 Nov 18, 2007
  nice one!
  
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  rexbo
  #14 Nov 18, 2007
  yeah that one was cool!
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  xalways
  #15 Nov 24, 2007
  cool !! but it is obvious that the first move is a check thereby eliminating right away other variations.
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  Spike_Mason
  #16 Nov 25, 2007

  I've got a recent one that I'm proud of. It's pretty easy, I think. Mate in 4:

  
  
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  forkman
  #17 Nov 25, 2007
  Here's a puzzle I made up. 

  
  
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  chessnoob1997
  #18 Nov 26, 2007
  A puzzle with a few mistakes (how do u correct mistakes in the chess wizard??)
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  apple127
  #19 Dec 2, 2007
  hold on forkman, isn't the first move knight d6 mate?
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  Texanz
  #20 Dec 5, 2007
  apple127 wrote: hold on forkman, isn't the first move knight d6 mate?

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   thats what i get, its mate in 1. Nd6