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| jaime gallegos: and 20. Ne7+ , winning the queen |
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| Oct-04-04 |
| Sadgrinner: Well, wouldn't black move the rook to e8 to prevent the queen-king fork? Nevertheless, white wins a piece and maintains a tremendous spatial advantage. I wonder, is the theme of the week going to be 'Removing the Defender'? |
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Oct-04-04
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| cu8sfan: I saw the  -fork right away, now the only thing to do was to get rid of the  covering e7. Nice one! |
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| Oct-04-04 |
| Dudley: The play was more or less forced from 15.b4, based on the black queen not having any safe squares. The opening transposed into a Maroczy bind sicilian and black achieved a losing position without appearing to do anything particularly wrong. It's not a good system to be on the wrong side of-you have to know some theory to survive it. |
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| Oct-04-04 |
| Dudley: I think 13...Rfd8 is the culprit here, 13...Rfe8 would have been much better. Still an uncomfortable position for black though. |
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| Oct-04-04 |
| guitar2001: i know it's monday and the quizzes start out easy, but this is just pathetic. |
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| Oct-04-04 |
| santhosh achar: very easy problem today |
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| Oct-04-04 |
| Marco65: 10...Be6 seems week to me, and maybe also the exchange 9...Nxd4 is dubious. But I only rely on the main line I'm prepared to face when I play against the accelerated dragon with White. Any dragon expert here? |
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| Oct-04-04 |
| greystar69: Even if black remains materially equal by playing 17....Qb8 he is at such a spatial disadvantage that his pieces are practically falling off the board into his lap! |
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Oct-04-04
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| Willem Wallekers: <10...Be6 seems week to me> I don't like it either, though it is accepted theory. Bd7 + Bc6 looks sounder to me. |
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Oct-04-04
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| cu8sfan: <I wonder, is the theme of the week going to be 'Removing the Defender'?> Either this or else it might be -fork week. |
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| Oct-04-04 |
| CavaleiroNegro: this is very easy!!! |
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| Oct-04-04 |
| Chesspatch: less than 30 secs!!! beat that, homies!!! erm... yea. |
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Oct-04-04
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| kevin86: Puzzle easy-lesson strong. Chop off defender to set up fork-white wins a piece |
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| Oct-04-04 |
| Calculon: <Cu8sfan> Are you still a fan after what happened this last week? |
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Oct-04-04
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| cu8sfan: <Are you still a fan> I wouldn't be a fan if I wasn't a fan anymore but it hurts, losing 7 in the last 10... Can you believe this is the Cubs' first back-to-back winning season since 1973! Maybe next year... Just for the record: For the playoffs I'm rooting for the Red Sox now. |
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| Oct-04-04 |
| Stonewaller2: Whatever curses the Cubs were laboring under must have been renewed indefinitely by the Demiurges of Baseball after they installed lights at Wrigley Field. Now the Minnesota Twins, "el equipo de Venezuela," have had a critical game called on account of football; the college eleven needed the field Saturday afternoon so the 12th inning was played yesterday. Twins won with a close play at the plate but lost the game that was supposed to be played on Sunday and so face the dreaded pinstripe squad instead of the Bostons. The Demiurges are not mocked! "We struggle against the Yankees, the enemies of humanity." -- Nicaraguan Sandinista Party anthem. And hey, what's wrong with a little "family fork" to start the week? |
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Oct-04-04
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| Knight13: Exactly as what I got. |
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| Oct-04-04 |
| square dance: <stonewaller2> <el equipo de venezuala> could i get a translation on that? |
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| Oct-04-04 |
| square dance: <stonewaller2> actually thanks to the handy spanish to english translator available online ive now got it. |
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| Oct-04-04 |
| Whitehat1963: I saw Rxf6 instinctively, but I have to admit that I didn't see the fork on the queen at all. |
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| Oct-04-04 |
| Stonewaller2: "Venzuela's team;" five Twins hail from Venezuela including AL Cy Young candidate Johan Santana, most in the majors. |
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Oct-04-04
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| notyetagm: Nice easy <REMOVAL OF THE GUARD> problem to start the week: 19  xf6! destroys the defender of the e7 forking square, winning a piece and threatening the royal fork 20 e7+ and 21 x if the rook is taken. |
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| Oct-04-04 |
| dac1990: A problem very much worthy of Monday. |
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| Oct-04-04 |
| mynameisrandy: Can we stop with the "too easy even for Monday" crap? Yeah, it was easy. That's the point of Mondays. They're puzzles for beginners to puzzle over and for more experienced players to check how quickly they pick up on themes they know. Harder puzzles are only days away! |
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