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that was tough!
It took me forever to design it. Thank goodness it's tough!
My idea was for one piece to guard another and to have a chain reaction.
Etienne wrote: Are you serious?
About this actually happening or something else?
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" It took me forever to design it. Thank goodness it's tough!"
About this.
" My idea was for one piece to guard another and to have a chain reaction."
And this.
I don't want to be rude, but this puzzle was extremely bad. Then it has nothing to do with pieces guarding one another. A puzzle has to have a difficulty in it, and in yours, even a total beginner who doesn't see the discovered mate will take the queen and solve it without even realising.
Also a puzzle should be more than one move...
Your intentions are good, but I'd go pas the complete beginner level before trying to analyse people's games or making puzzles. Concentrate on playing a couple of games, then pick up a book to learn a thing or two about chess, and learn to solve puzzles. Don't waste your time on things you aren't yet good enough to do.
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I see nothing wrong with a mate-in-one puzzle. But a good puzzle has one answer and this has two... Bxg4# and Qa5#. Also, as Etienne says, someone who doesn't see the mate may just grab the queen and happen upon the mate. If you put a Black rook on b4 and moved the Black queen to g5 I think you solve both problems.
As mentioned, I too nabbed the queen by default, although I did expect to be told that was wrong (giving the puzzle some substance). Oh well.
HotFlow wrote: Not bad for a 13 year old. At least he isn't stealing cars and selling drugs or some other more common past time for youngsters these days.
Etienne was rather tactless while expressing her opinion, but that is her style. I would much prefer brutal honesty to this kind of unwarranted cynicism.
I couldn't make bishops have a chain reaction, but lots of Rook moves are guarded by the Queen, and almost all Queen moves are protected by something.
i worked up a sweat with that one
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tonightonly7 wrote: HotFlow wrote: Not bad for a 13 year old. At least he isn't stealing cars and selling drugs or some other more common past time for youngsters these days.
Etienne was rather tactless while expressing her opinion, but that is her style. I would much prefer brutal honesty to this kind of unwarranted cynicism.
His, his... I was a man last time I checked.
Etienne wrote:
...Also a puzzle should be more than one move...
Etienne, I saw some VERY hard "mate in 1" puzzles, so don't think that every "mate in 1" puzzle is bad.
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Kingskiller wrote: Etienne wrote:
...Also a puzzle should be more than one move...
Etienne, I saw some VERY hard "mate in 1" puzzles, so don't think that every "mate in 1" puzzle is bad.
Yeah I retract myself, such puzzles can be useful to beginners, I just had never seen one and never felt the need for mate in one puzzles... I'd like however to see VERY hard mate in one puzzles... I can only see them for very beginners... I might be mistaken though.
I'd like however to see VERY hard mate in one puzzles...
Here's a mate-in-one puzzle I found entertaining:
Keep making puzzles, it can and will improve your game. Sure it was easy and all but really what should people expect if you're just learning. No big deal keep making them share them if you will. :D
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