When I am hungry

nice

That first one by shoopi reminds me of a variation in one of Nigel Short's games:

There is a very interesting puzzle on shoopi's blog :

http://www.chess.com/forum/view/more-puzzles/a-very-hard-tactic

For puzzle 368a does the order of moves 4 and 5 matter?

The puzzle is in post #8 on the first page of this thread.

Why not 59. Qd3+ Ka1 

Then white can no longer check and black can promote his pawn to a queen. -Im probably missing something as I am a noob with chess. But Im curious why its not possible.

Lovely puzzles

60) Qd1 or Qf1 would still be mate because the black queen is blocking a2 unless I am misunderstanding what you are saying.

59. Qd3+ Ka1 60. Qd1(orQf1) b1 (promotes to queen)

Then the king is on a1 with a queen on a2 and b1 protecting him.

The computers at work dont support a chessboarddiagram, so I just made a picture:

The puzzle suggests 59. Qd3+ Kc1.

But why not Ka1? Then Qd1 or Qf1, but then the pawn can promote to a queen.

dekaleaas, you are right, it is my mistake, i made entering the moves.

59.Qd3+ is mistake, white must play 59.Qf1 mate .Thanks for pointing it. :)

Hurray!! I said something sensible about chess :D

dekaleaas, i see, you invented new chessvariant:

     Economy Chess :

http://www.chess.com/download/view/economy-chess

Yes, I enjoy chess. To watch, to think about it and to read about it. My play however is very bad. The game has so much depth that it would cost me a looong time to get somewhere. But may be I am learning a bit on the go and who knows I will play a bit more in the future.

Some time soon I will play a game of Economy Chess against Boletus_CZ . I played him before and lost hopelessly. But next time I will be supported by houdini :D (and he will use databases). I think its going to be an interesting game!

Here is a nice drawing puzzle I came across.

It was in the book The Fireside Book of Chess (1949).

White to play and win

This is a tough one.

The most I could find was a draw.