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| May-02-06 | | KeRvY: quite an easy find even for a tuesday, |
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| May-02-06 | | Alekhinelover: even easier than monday's |
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| May-02-06 | | CitricAcid13: Rxd6 it's a miracle! |
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| May-02-06 | | aazqua: Ridiculously easy and an embarrassingly bad game. Can't we limit the puzzles to 1800+ rated games? This is worse that fischer vs grennblatt |
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| May-02-06 | | Gregor Samsa Mendel: <aazqua>--If you are implying that Unzicker and/or Robatsch are rated below 1800, then you should look up the players and their ratings before you make such statements. |
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May-02-06
 | | cu8sfan: Unzicker memorial week, how thoughtful. Thank you, <chessgames.com>. |
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| May-02-06 | | n30: amazing. everybody adding a post here must be close to a gm/im level. 1800+... wow. very impressive.
I for once didn't find this one (sic!) Despite the fact I found last sunday's puzzle within 30 secs easily. so, what does that mean? ...probably nothing. ;o)~
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| May-02-06 | | pwrstick: Maybe more of a Monday puzzle, but I enjoyed it. I suck at chess though :-) It's funny, I didn't see it until I stopped looking at checks and started surveying which of white's pieces were threatened, and then I found it immediately. |
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| May-02-06 | | alphee: <pwrstick:I didn't see it until I stopped looking at checks > and as I did not stop looking at checks ... I did not find it. |
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| May-02-06 | | John Doe: The first move I looked at was Qf8 because it looked strong... of course there's that pesky knight and queen keeping me from mating. At that point I realized rook takes knight got rid of both my problems. Making the position you want come to be seems to be a common theme harped on by many chess books. Perhaps it's finally come to use...? |
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| May-02-06 | | dzechiel: Very close to time control, black must have been very low on time to miss 39 Rxd6, it jumps right off of the board. |
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| May-02-06 | | cuendillar: I too wanted to play 39.Qe8# and so made sure it was possible. The final line I came up with was 39.Rxd6 Qc8 40.Qe8+! Qxe8 41.Rxe8+ Kxe8 42.Rd8# |
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| May-02-06 | | ianD: Feeels like Moday...too easy |
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May-02-06
 | | Sneaky: The real combination started with 37.Ne7!, it's all forced from there. |
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| May-02-06 | | Marco65: It's not easy to see when Robatsch did his final mistake. Moves 35-38 seems rather forced to me. Notice how 37.Ne7 doesn't threaten to win only the exchange but a full rook, for instance (after 37...null move) 38.Nxg8 Rxg8 39.Qh6+ Rg7 40.Rxd6 or 38.Nxg8 Kxg8 39.Rxd6 Qxd6 40.Qxg5. Maybe 37...R8g6 "only" loses the exchange but it's understandable that Robatsch hopes his opponent doens't find the winning continuation rather than entering a lost endgame |
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| May-02-06 | | prinsallan: Very pretty. |
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| May-02-06 | | EmperorAtahualpa: I agree with the many others who say this puzzle is too easy. This should have been Monday's puzzle. I saw it in 1-2 seconds. |
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| May-02-06 | | AniamL: Free knight week!!!! |
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| May-02-06 | | Habalabam: I think the puzzles SHOULD vary in difficulty.
Regrettably, I go to "puzzle mode" when I'm looking at puzzles. I mentally sacrifice here and there and I explore forced combinations 6-7 moves deep, which is not how I play chess games. If you started standardizing chess puzzles even more, my blindspots would only increase. I could even vote for the "puzzle of the week" to have three (?) games. Most with a definite "best move", but only one with a killer combination. I hope to see chessmaster in the future analyzing my games, and then recognizing problematic "themes" which it could generate puzzles from using the included game database. |
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| May-02-06 | | TheKid: Nice to see chessgames making a tribute to Unzicker. He died April 20th. |
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| May-02-06 | | NotABanker: Very easy for Tuesday, I thought Monday was harder. |
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| May-02-06 | | pleasebequiet: Good lord. Stop with the comments about how easy the puzzles are. You come off as arrogant and obnoxious. I am a better player than most of you. Since this is a fact, I am not arrogant or obnoxious like you. I am simply stating fact. |
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| May-02-06 | | kErVy2: Come on now, I'm an idiot! |
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| May-02-06 | | Zplane: I appreciate having this database of games to review and these daily puzzles. (Sometimes I even appreciate the comments made on the games) Thanks for the work picking out these puzzles for our enjoyment/education. |
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| May-02-06 | | Fezzik: I agree with TheKid!
Thanks for selecting Unzicker's games this week! |
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