Sugsy's Puzzles 4

23rd September 2008

Black to move has better coordination among his forces with potential threats. Malanca concluded a surprising attack in style and launched his forces against the White king. The reader is requested to solve position under special condition to improve the tactical vision. Look at the board for 30 seconds and try to memorize the position. Then find Black's winning sequence in blindfold.

 keep em coming great puzzle

thank you vermeer1 - i only seem to be getting one or two comments per puzzle so can you please try and encourage your friends on the site to come and do them each day!

that is fair enough, i just put that in as a suggestion!

i don't have too many friends here but uhhm let me think how to get more viewers. I think slowly they will build up. maybe offer people to subscribe to you post mostly puzzles less games unless there's winning tactic  maybe have a sugsys puzzle group and keep it up to date and you could have sugsy vote chess games in the group and have people post there own puzzles. I am not good at making puzzles mine usually aren't the best line. or write a weekly or daily column hmm maybe it slowly builds like a snowball.  I only play live chess here and recently stopped to work. so only have five or so friends but only from a live chess game. uhhm I will keep thinking. 

also i like how you reply to our comments that is professional and people will like going to your posts because of that. they just have to discover them 

i think give it a bit of time it could be like the daily puzzle. maybe have days with easy med hard puzzles so far i like the difficulty for me. 

i believe that unless black resigned on the last move, it is 0-1.

i think people will see quality in your work if you stay consistent

thank you very much vermeer1, i will take all of that into consideration and I like the idea about a group!

Jambux_Josh, black did resign and in puzzles and all notated chess games it is widely recognised that unless a mate is shown 0-1 would mean that!

wow I looked the the position before white's move and i was like, white is done for.  Nothing is going to work.  I randomly "suicided" the queen into the pawn and then I was like, oh..... wow.  Great puzzle.  No way I would have seen that in a game

Thank you very much Olimar... it seems you may be right, the puzzles suprise the people at first glance but they will get very steadily harder and harder every day so my aim is to improve players awareness on the board.

very nice. I wouldnt have saw that

I enjoyed this one. Can I make a couple of suggestions though for future puzzles:

1) Try to show the board from the perspective of the player making the moves, i.e. in this one rotate the board since it's black to move.

2) When adding the score at the end make sure you get it the right way round.

Apart from that this is brilliant, and thanks for posting!

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i tried to blindfold myself blindfoldedly, and that was very tricky cos i didn't see where was the blinfold and where am i.....

but the puzzle was very nice, but i didn't manage to see all of it in the blinfold. because of the pin.

Thanks for the puzzle

Nice one........... I got it eventually, but actually had to set up a real-life board in front of me!

Thanks for taking the time to make me think!

acmcharg thank you very much for the advice and the first point is  a very good point which I will definitly address tomorrow with my next puzzle but for putting the score the right way round...I have done that right haven't I?

thank you aswell to all of you for supporting the puzzle and this isnt my latest one - no.5 is currently in the forums and no.6 will be out in about 10 hours!

thx for that one..

dont worry about it!