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| Sep-17-19 | | Walter Glattke: I am back after computer repair, possible was still C) 41.Qe3 Rxe3+ 42.Rxe3 Qf1+ 43.Ke4 Qc4+ 44.Kf3 Qxc5 45.Re8+ Kg7 46.Rd8 Qxa5 |
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| Sep-17-19 | | whiteshark: It took me a minute or two to calculate it to the very end. |
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| Sep-17-19 | | JimNorCal: <sfm>: "It is my duty to oppose supporters of this, and so my membership will not be renewed when it expires." Can't argue with your logic. Not sure that non-members get in without ID though |
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| Sep-17-19 | | ajile: lol I got 39..Qf5+ but was thinking I would get a perp not an actual win. :o) |
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| Jan-16-21 | | areknames: "Very difficult"?? 39...Qf5+ and White will get mated losing decisive material in the process. |
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| Jan-16-21 | | areknames: Ok, I now see this was once a Tuesday puzzle. Nice little combination anyway. |
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| Jan-16-21 | | KevinDenelsbeck: Really pretty little net there! Black looked hopelessly down in material but the Queen steals 2nd, then 3rd, then slides home with the win! |
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Jan-16-21
 | | al wazir: Not so hard. There's nothing remotely promising except 39...Qf5+, after which black has to at least recover a rook. In fact black wins by just doing what comes naturally. |
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| Jan-16-21 | | Transfinite Cardinal: Stunning check what a move, black's position was so perilous. |
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| Jan-16-21 | | Walter Glattke: 39.-Qh1+ 40.Rg2 Qf1+ 41.Rf2 get draw only, 39.-Qf5+ 40.Qf4 Qxd3+ 41.Qe3 Rxe3+ 42.Rxe3 Qd5+ 43.Kf2 Qxd6 44.d7 Qf5+ (same position by Mel Gibson with 41.-Qd5+) 45.Rf3 Qxd7 46.Ke2 Qa4 getting several queens, perhaps five of them. |
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| Jan-16-21 | | stacase: Way too easy for a Saturday. |
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| Jan-16-21 | | agb2002: Level 2: 18...?
Kotov vs Smyslov, 1940
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| Jan-16-21 | | Brenin: Another easy one, 39 ... Qf5+ is fairly (Tuesday?) obvious. After 39 Qf4 Qxd3+ White needed 41 Qe3 to avoid the rather pretty mate, but then 41 ... Qd5+ 42 Kf2 Rxe3 Rxe3 43 Qxc5 is a win for Black. |
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| Jan-16-21 | | goodevans: A Tuesday puzzle repeated on a Saturday?
Maybe they intended to start the puzzle at <37...?> black to play as per <An Englishman>'s suggestion on page 1 of the comments. Another woefully missed opportunity. |
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Jan-16-21
 | | Korora: <Another "Ring Around The Rosie" mate.> Given how in Xiangqi checkmate patterns have names like "Iron Bolt" or "Scooping Moon", this fits that sort of nomenclature. |
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Jan-16-21
 | | chrisowen: Thinks agains toker Qf5 gotcha accommodate jacky a flusher photon beam thinks copout jamb thinks marbled agains bequeath daiquiri gentles think-sikh within fluxvary its poke gates thinks agains jilly jilt runny agains maw it hidz totadd flubbs foilable thinks agains hatchet goofy Qf5 blusher? |
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| Jan-16-21 | | belgradegambit: Makes me feel smart to solve a Saturday puzzle. Chessgames.com is kind of an amateur site compared to chess24, chess.com or lichess. Maybe one of many retired here on this site could volunteer
to run the POTD. |
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| Jan-16-21 | | messachess: A number of ways to move around. You have to get the geometry right. |
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| Jan-16-21 | | dhotts: The puzzle should start a couple moves earlier to be considered a 3 and half stars. Black's interesting mate threats for what appears at first glance as White being ahead with a passed pawn. |
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| Jan-16-21 | | King.Arthur.Brazil: To escape this terrible trick, White must not allow Black to invade the 2nd rank. Therefore, going back to 33...cxd5, the answer must be 34. ♖xd5 For example, A)♕e7 35. ♖xd8 ♖xd8 36. ♖xd8 ♕xd8 37. ♕d5 ±, or B)34. ♖xd5 ♖xd5 35. exd5 ♖e2+ 36. ♔f3 and now 36...♕e7? loses the ♖ with 37. ♕xe2 or 36...♕e5 36. ♕d4... or 36...♕e7 36. ♖f1... I think that White underestimated the Black counter-attack, and lost the game by precipitation. |
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Jan-16-21
 | | Jimfromprovidence: <belgrdegambit> <Makes me feel smart to solve a Saturday puzzle. Chessgames.com is kind of an amateur site compared to chess24, chess.com or lichess. Maybe one of many retired here on this site could volunteer to run the POTD.> This is not a Saturday puzzle. CG has been running recycled puzzles from the week of September 15, 2019 the past three days at least. So we have seen the puzzle from Sunday September 15 this past Thursday, Monday September 16 yesterday and Tuesday September 17 today. it's not the first time this has happened. |
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| Jan-16-21 | | Nullifidian: The fact that this was a Tuesday puzzle explains it, because that's the actual level of difficulty. After 39... ♕f5+ 40. ♕f4 ♕xe3+, there are no good moves. 41. ♖e3 mates in 1, as in the game, 41. ♔g2 loses the rook to ♖xe2+, 41. ♔f2 is mate in 6 (41... ♕xe2+ 42. ♔g1 ♕e1+ 43. ♕f1 (♔g2/h2 ♖e2+ 44. ♕f2 ♕xf2+ with mate next move) ♕xg3+ 44. ♔h1 ♖e4 and now if the queen moves, then ♖e1+ leads to mate the next move, and if the queen stays put then ♖xh4+ does), and 41. ♕e3, which seems like the most robust defense, loses the queen for a rook immediately. So how is this supposed to be "very difficult"? |
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| Jan-16-21 | | Refused: 39...Qf5+
a)40.Qf4 Qxd3+ 41.Re3 Qf1#
a1) 41.Qe3 Rxe3 presumably relatively best, but after 42.Rxe3 Qd5+ this is just -+
b)40.Kg2 Rxe2+ 0-1
difficulty seems a bit off this week. |
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Jan-16-21
 | | Breunor: It was hard because they told us it was a Saturday puzzle! I saw Qf5ch right away and was looking and looking, and saying 'There has to be more to it than that.' So this is a philosophical issue - it was hard because they told me it was hard! |
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| Jan-17-21 | | Brenin: <Breunor>: For the time being, at least, I think one should forget the traditional POTD Monday to Sunday progression of difficulty, and treat each puzzle as it comes, without any preconceptions concerning its likely difficulty. |
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sac: 38...Qh3