Karel Prucha vs Jan Foltys (1943)

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Karel Prucha vs Jan Foltys
Zlin (1943), rd 1
Semi-Slav Defense: Accelerated Meran Variation (D45) · 0-1

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Apr-03-06		yataturk: QxR allows the pawn to advance.

Apr-03-06		chesstoplay: This was the easiest puzzle I've ever seen on this site. It is nice to know that my basic tactical and endgame skills were instantaneously accurate. Thanks to chessgames.com for giving us intuitive puzzles as well as calculating puzzles over the course of a week.

Apr-03-06		dzechiel: No more than a second to solve this one. Pretty darn easy.

Apr-03-06		goldenbear: <chesstoplay> I agree. That's the easiest I've seen too. I think the puzzle should start a move earlier.

Apr-03-06		midknightblue: I got the puzzle and it is still Sunday in Hawaii! I rock!

Apr-03-06		OhioChessFan: White's exchanges on moves 20 and 21 leave him in a much more passive position. His 23rd move pushes the Knight where it was going anyway, so was a total waste of time. Black's pawn push is the culmination of those errors.

Apr-03-06		blingice: What's important here is not that any of you got this puzzle, it's that <yataturk> posted first, and that he stated the obvious point that was the entire basis of the puzzle, and something that not even a child wouldn't understand.

Apr-03-06		Infohunter: The winning idea at the finish of this game is essentially the same as that of Capablanca vs B H Villegas, 1914, with colors reversed.

Apr-03-06		yataturk: < blingice: What's important here is not that any of you got this puzzle, it's that <yataturk> posted first, and that he stated the obvious point that was the entire basis of the puzzle, and something that not even a child wouldn't understand. > keep'm coming..

Apr-03-06		Dim Weasel: Got it. It is easy to see with so few pieces and no other tactical themes available.

Apr-03-06		snowie1: Thanks <Infohunter>, I enjoyed them both. After 33...c3 it's over...just like in Capa's game after 31...Rd6 and black was finished.

Apr-03-06		notyetagm: <Infohunter: The winning idea at the finish of this game is essentially the same as that of Capablanca vs B H Villegas, 1914, with colors reversed.> I was going to post a link to that famous Capablanca game since that was one of the first games that taught me the tactical theme <Blockaders do not defend, they blockade>. Here the White c2-queen must <blockade> the advance of the passed Black c3-pawn, which is supported by the Black c8-rook. Hence the White queen cannot also <defend> the White a2-rook from the threat of capture from the Black b3-queen. The White c2-queen is simply <overworked> and 34 ... ♕x♖! 35 ♕x♕ <deflects> her from her other task of <blockading> the passed c3-pawn. After 35 ... c2 Black will get his queen back next move and be up a whole rook. So White resigns.

Apr-03-06		Ger7ry: Did you notice that after move 16 the position is almost perfectly symmetrical? Impressive how Black gets so much out of such an even position.

Apr-03-06		khense: Q X a2 obvious move in a diagram. I HOPE I would have seen it in a game (add time pressure)

Apr-03-06		Zaius: Thank you chessgames.com for giving an easy puzzle for monday. Don't let them pressure you into making mondays harder.

Apr-03-06		VargPOD: Easiest puzzle I have seen in this site. Maybe even too easy, but the theme is instructive.

Apr-03-06		WarmasterKron: Very simple. After a few seconds looking around the board, I worked it out.

Apr-03-06		WannaBe: I love mondays, I love mondays... "Monday Monday, so good to me, Monday Monday, it was all I hoped it would be" Apologies to The Mamas and Papas. :-)

Apr-03-06		twinlark: Aesthetically pleasing.

Apr-03-06		trumbull0042: Please keep the Monday puzzles easy. I've got a romantic attachment to the easy Monday puzzle from Chessgames, that goes back at least a year and a half now.

Apr-03-06		OhioChessFan: <"Monday Monday, so good to me, Monday Monday, it was all I hoped it would be" Apologies to The Mamas and Papas. > <Wannabe> Is it already time for another round of American Idol parodies?

Apr-03-06		cuendillar: This would have been more challenging if it came later in the week, simply because everyone would waste time trying to figure out why it doesn't work...

Apr-03-06		prinsallan: Mondays always make me feel ooh so great. ^^

Apr-03-06		NotABanker: Too easy!

Apr-03-06		dakgootje: Nah ive seen easier puzzles. Easier?!? Yes! Ow... but fortunate for all of us that dear <yataturk> enlighted us with 3 wonderful, well-written and above all profound posts, which will be helpful for all of us if we want to have only a slight notion about this game because of the brilliant contents.

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