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I guess I took between 15 and 20 seconds to solve it. Pretty easy.
It was easy one but thx for the post anyway...
wow 3 sec, is that a record?
Understanding is more important than speed in chess.
took my 3-4 secs,but i got lucky...because i KNEW thier was a quick mate out there
Graw81 wrote: Understanding is more important than speed in chess.
wow, 3 sec to understand what mates!
With tactics trainer, I find that sometimes if I go after too many puzzles in one session I end up missing 'easy' solutions like this. Often because the puzzle looks like another with a slightly different solution and I start moving a piece only to realise that there is a mate in 2 or that I'm currently in check or some other silly thing.
I imagine alot of people do things like that or think a puzzle is more complicated than it is and take too long to solve things.
I find stopping myself from making assumptions like this has actually been the best lesson I've received from tactics trainer.
Erudite wrote: Graw81 wrote: Understanding is more important than speed in chess.
wow, 3 sec to understand what mates!
3 seconds to recognise a fool.
Ok, warn me. meh...
For me there is something oddly disorienting about this puzzle. I think because the queen is so closed to being lost my brain wires get crossed looking at stuff like Qf2+ or Qd2+ Kc4 Qc3+. In the end it took me about 12-15 seconds to see the mate.
I'm also in the 12-15 range which is unusual for me for a mate-in-one. I began looking for ways to win the queen before I said, doh, there's mate! Given the responses in this thread (>10s), the difficulty level assigned to it is reasonable.
I may have just gotten lucky, but I got it in about five seconds. My rating isn't even near that of the puzzle, though.
Find the best move as quickly as you can without making an incorrect move.
This puzzle is currently rated 1789 on Chess Tactics Server. That means that people rated a bit lower than that usually fail to solve this puzzle or solve it in over 10 seconds. Did you have any trouble with this?