Yeah cool problems, it would be even better if you gave the composers (most of the time given right above the diagram)
I have realized...
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Sorry.
Can someone guess the final one though?
Faltering tries are usually given ?, refutations to the tries !, and the correct key move !
heinzie wrote:
Faltering tries are usually given ?, refutations to the tries !, and the correct key move !
That's true.
You don't tug on Superman's cape You don't spit into the wind You don't pull the mask off the old Lone Ranger
and you don't argue problem conventions with heinzie
!! for a #2 keymove is a little bit over the top though, I agree
Some good puzzles, kept me occupied for a little bit
Nd3 to stop the queen check? I mean i havnt even THOUGHT about it, but thats my bet! lol.
no wait its Kc5. Clever.
heinzie wrote:
Yeah cool problems, it would be even better if you gave the composers (most of the time given right above the diagram)
It's not Burt Hochberg?
Burt Hochberg was the guy who collected these problems and attached the "if you buy this book you're really smart" label (official Mensa puzzle book? sRSLY?!?). While in some way he might be right about the intellectual capacities of the composers of some of these problems, I am not entirely convinced of their merits to the solver's IQ nor chess strength...
smiley15 wrote:
grantchamp wrote:
Can someone guess the final one though?
Bxc2#
I thought the same before I looked at it for half an hour and realized...(drum roll) d3!!
The final one is actually answered with: (A second drum roll.) Kc5 (No !'s) and was created by K.A. Larsen.
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that there is a lot of talking going on about things like mate in four, three, two, etc. So I have decided to take part in the action.
Source: Award-winning chess problems by Burt Hochberg.
Goal: mate in two.
Now one to have you guys guess: