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| Dec-03-14 | | agb2002: Black is one pawn ahead.
Black can deliver mate in four with 35... Rxd3+ 36.Kxd3 Rc3+ 37.Kd4 c5+ 38.Kd5 Rd3#. |
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| Dec-03-14 | | gofer: Boo Hoo, another simple forced mate...
<35 ... Rxd3+ 36 Kxd3 Rc3+ 37 Kd4 c5+ 38 Kd5 Rd3#> ...back to work then! |
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| Dec-03-14 | | whiteshark: ♔♖♘♘♙♙ made a perfect team here. |
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| Dec-03-14 | | dick50: Poor white pawn on c4. It was a Queen pawn opening. White c pawn was looking for early retirement after customary encounter with its foe Black d pawn, but d pawn never came on d5. At the end this pawn was embarrassed as it contributed to checkmate of his own King |
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| Dec-03-14 | | morfishine: Nice corridor mate
***** |
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| Dec-03-14 | | gars: "Medium/Easy"? More easy than medium I'd say, because it's been a long time since I last solved a Wednesday POTD. |
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| Dec-03-14 | | zb2cr: Got the first move, missed the correct follow-up! |
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| Dec-03-14 | | CHESSTTCAMPS: Black's active pieces are all better than the corresponding white pieces, with the attacking rook on c2 separating the white king from protection. With the WK having only one legal move, it makes sense to look for a mate. 35... Rxd3+! does the trick and the result is a forced mate with no branching lines: 36.Kxd3 Rc3+ 37.Kd4 c5+ 38.Kd5 Rd3# And the extra pawn on b7 can claim full credit for the win. |
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| Dec-03-14 | | patzer2: Maybe my middle of the board mate visualization is improving as evidenced by a quick 35...Rxd3+! 36. Kxd3 Rc3+ 37. Kd4 c5+ 38. Kd5 Rd3# mate-in-four solution to today's Wednesday puzzle. |
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| Dec-03-14 | | TheaN: Wednesday 3 December 2014 <35....?> Two knights around your king is always extremely risky. Knights shine because they take such a distinct space compared to the abstract pieces taking a file, rank and/or diagonal. Black makes her knights count by sacrificing an abstract major piece: <35....Rxd3+> and here white probably realized she should have taken the other knight more into the defense. After <36.Kxd3 Rc3+ 37.Kd4 c5+ 38.Kd5 Rd3# 0-1> the coordination of the black pieces is pure. |
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| Dec-03-14 | | patzer2: For my taste, there's too many pieces moved too many times in the opening for White. Instead of 8. Qa4 Nbd7 9. Qa3 e5!  , I like 9. Nc3  to  . |
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Dec-03-14
 | | Bubo bubo: 35...Rxd3+ 36.Kxd3 Rc3+ 37.Kd4 c5+ 38.Kd5 Rd3# Interesting mating pattern! |
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Dec-03-14
 | | Penguincw: Damn it! I thought I got this puzzle. I got as far as 35...Rxd3+ 36.Kxd3 Rc3+ 37.Kd4 (36...Rd2+, and the king sneaks through c3) and that's it <but>, show me the position after 37.Kd4 and I would've gotten the mate (couldn't quite visualize all of this in my head). |
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| Dec-03-14 | | TheaN: For what it's worth, in my opinion after Bosboom decides to take the rook on move 36, she should have allowed the whole mate combination. Resign on the combination trigger or play on till mate. |
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Dec-03-14
 | | paulalbert: Surprisingly found the Rxd3+ and forced mate very quickly. My first instinct was to try to divert white's R on e1 to get black's Rc2 to e2 for mate, but no sensible way to divert Re1, so fortunately didn't waste time on that. Saw I could drive white's K naked into black's territory and the weak P on b7 ( backward on an open file) kept the mating net closed deep in my own territory, so it worked. |
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| Dec-03-14 | | Castleinthesky: CG's most difficult puzzle ever and I solved it, whoo hoo! (I have to do something to boost my ego on a Wednesday) |
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| Dec-03-14 | | Cheapo by the Dozen: I looked at a number of other possibilities first. Cool problem. (I'm back, after two weeks off grandparenting ...) |
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| Dec-03-14 | | TheTamale: I saw 35)... Rxd3+ as the likely first move, but for some reason I could only see 36)... Rd2+ as the follow-up instead of 36)... Rc3+. I probably don't need to mention that I'm not a very good chess player. |
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| Dec-03-14 | | kevin86: I saw a quick mate, but not exactly how. It's nice how the black pieces chase white up into the cul-de-sac. |
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| Dec-03-14 | | dfcx: 35...Rxd3+ seems to be the only move
36.Kxd3 Rc3+ (not Rc2+)
37.Kd4 c5+
38.Kd5 Rd3# |
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| Dec-03-14 | | YetAnotherAmateur: I thoroughly enjoyed this one.
35. ... Rxd3+ is by far the most forcing move on the board, because white has no choice from here on out. Specifically: 36. Kxd3 Rc3+
37. Kd4 c5+
38. Kd5 Rd3#
That Ne4 in particular puts in some great work controlling where the white king goes. |
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| Dec-03-14 | | Errrrrrr: White's opening is confusing |
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Dec-03-14
 | | chrisowen: A hip rook d8 crashes in d3 and wins the knight:
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| Dec-03-14 | | Bobsterman3000: So I guess having locked knights isn't always so bad after all ;-) |
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| Dec-03-14 | | patzer2: <Errrrrrr: White's opening is confusing> White's trying to confuse and outmaneuver a Leningrad Dutch player, hoping to get her out of her opening preparation and gain an advantage. However, the strategy of moving Knights and Queens more than once in the first 10 moves backfires as Black easily equalizes in 8 moves and has the advantage after 9 moves. For improvements in the opening I like 3. Bg2, 4. Bg2, 5. Nc3, 6. Nc3, 7. Nc3 and 8. Nc3. After 9. Qa3?! e5! Black has a lasting advantage with an initiative.. |
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sac: 35...Rxd3+