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Ah of course, the double pawn move. I'll bet this is what the GM spent ages not seeing too!
Disgruntled_Sheep wrote:
Ah of course, the double pawn move. I'll bet this is what the GM spent ages not seeing too!
You get in the mode of feeding pawns to the K and it's easy to miss that you should shift gears at the end.
Nice find!
TheMotherLode wrote:
so in regards to the puzzle with the pawns and helpmate...why is black not mating white?
Because that was not the composer's intent.
Good job Cosmologist! Did you solve it without a computer?
TheMotherLode wrote:
this is the solution i prefer
I'm not sure why...any chucklehead can win that with black.
TasmanianTiger wrote:
Good job Cosmologist! Did you solve it without a computer?
Of course.
About 99.9% of chess puzzles would take only few seconds for the modern engines to solve completely.If anyone takes help of the computers to solve puzzles then it would ruin the fun, excitement and the secrets a puzzle contains.Else the topic "puzzle" would be replaced by "test your comp".
#52, first diagram, assuming the white king is on h8 : Black can draw by stalemate easily (move the king), so let's try to win :
1...Bf7-somewhere (otherwise stalemate) 2.f6-f7 Bg8xf7 (otherwise stalemate or queen promotion) 3.g7-g8=Q and draw. Black cannot mate with only light-squared bishop and no white piece left to obstruct the squares.
Second diagram : the white pawns are destroyed after anything else than 1.f7-f8 and White loses, so we have to play it : 1.f7-f8=Q+. White can achieve at least a perpetual by checking the black king, the queen going on the squares f8-c5-b5-a5 (the e6 pawn prevents any interception). I think that White can win though, but I don't see how to prove or disprove it without looking at particular lines.
Perfect Irontiger! You nailed the first position, and as to the second position...I'm pretty sure it's a draw by perpetual, not a win for white, but I haven't analyzed it on a computer.
The_Cosmologist wrote:
Here's a position with white to move and mate in one.
But before solving, do keep in mind that it was published on 1st April.
Can't be
Perfect ViktorHNielsen! Very thorough and detailed, deep anaylsis. You really hit the nail on the head for this one...I love your variations! :)
@ Moztak: On the line you propose, what would you do if black played Kxb7?