Really HARD: Mate In Two
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Thats ridiculous. Just play 2.Qxg7#. Also, you call it mate in 2 and give a 3 move solution.
Yeah, Seconded. It's mate in two with 2. Qxg7#. Don't understand your mate in 3 title. Also, I really despise those who constantly say that a puzzle is easy. Usually I simply assume that they didn't actually figure it out themselves. But this one truly is (at the very least) not "HARD."
Board is probably reversed while posting the problem. Mate in three is alright if white oawns are moving down the board Check??
vijaykulkarni wrote: Board is probably reversed while posting the problem. Mate in three is alright if white oawns are moving down the board Check??
White is moving up. Refer to the coordinates on the board.
it was REALLY REALLY HARD for me to play 2.Qxg7# and get mate in 2 
Yeah, if the pawns were moving in opposite the direction of the coordinates, the board is an amazing set up with a black pawn getting behind a white pawn near the back rank but still ended up getting blocked by his king. 
yeah.. i was really hard... almost imposible to play 2.Qxg7#
yeah
sorry, a little mistake... here's the right puzzle...
and the title is wrong too... should be mate in three.
In terms of difficulty, although there is a nice concept at play, I also have to agree that this one is certainly not "HARD". The puzzle practical forces the player to find the right idea quickly as there is no scope for investigating a wrong path.
May 25, 2008
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#13
(referring to your second puzzle) This is not a HARD puzzle, If a NM missed this it would be considered a blunder. Many chess players have at least some zugzwang experience, often first when hunting down the king of somebody going for stalemate. Further, white had little alternatives. A hard mate in 3 would be a non-forcing move that leads to inevitable mate. When your opponent has open-ended possibilties, its tough, but this line is very forcing.
Raito wrote:
sorry, a little mistake... here's the right puzzle...
Yes, now this is a mate in three, so your thread title is now inaccurate.
This is more difficult, but still quite easy for most chess buffs. If you found this difficult, you should probably study more zugzwang positions. Just search 'zugzwang' in the 'more puzzles' forum, or try entering it in google.
MikedaSnipe wrote: (referring to your second puzzle) This is not a HARD puzzle, If a NM missed this it would be considered a blunder, since the only other line he has to look at is Qxh6. A hard mate in 3 would be a non-forcing move that leads to inevitable mate. When your opponent has open-ended possibilties, its tough, but this line is very forcing.
What he obviously found hard about this puzzle is that the second move is not forcing, but it still needs to be the right square to force mate in three. A situation of zugzwang is the definition of a non-forcing move.
May 25, 2008
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#16
The second move is a forcing move though, as white only has 1 legal move, Kg8 =). What I'm talking about is moves that are quiet, don't actually make white do anything, and white has dozens of responses. But they all lead to death.
Those questions screw up my brain so bad, I question my chess playing abilities, religion, and my masculinity.
May 25, 2008
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#17
I think thatit must be considered whos talking and according to thattreanslate the meaning of his word, if i see a puzzle posted by a 2400+ player saying "Intermediate puzzle" certainly it might be a puzzle a lot more hard than a puzzle of a 1000 player saying "hard puzzle"
I'm sorry... but it's hard for me lol
TomMac19 wrote:
why say mate in 2 and give a 3 move variation? Qxg7 is mate!!!
I think that has been well stated.
