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| Jul-22-16 | | Patriot: Above, sorry I meant Bxe4 (not Bxf4), Rd8, and f5. |
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| Jul-22-16 | | psmith: Like some others my choice was 30...f5.
in the game continuation, 30...Bxe4 31. Rb2 Ne2+! leads to mate. (Stockfish) |
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| Jul-22-16 | | morfishine: I have been on vacation and lost track of time somehow thinking this was Monday. After a few minutes pondering, I was musing "Wow, this is a really hard Monday problem". Once I gathered myself and realized what day it is, I then re-energized myself for a Friday level problem I still didn't get it but could care less, I'm sill on vacation Privacy Please
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Jul-22-16
 | | AylerKupp: <penguincw> Happy Pi Approximation Day (22/7).> That reminds me of a story. My 8th grade math teacher indicated that pi = 22/7, without the approximation caveat. Being the skeptic that I am even then, I told him that I didn't think so. Unfortunately for him he was so sure of himself that he went to the chalkboard and wrote 22/7 = 3.14285 ... oops! And he didn't have an answer as to why 22/7 was not = pi. I felt sorry for him since he was one of my all time favorite teachers. So, Mr. Triplett, if you're still around, I'm sorry for challenging you. But that's a good story to remember in the USA's presidential race. Challenge everything that both main candidates say. |
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| Jul-22-16 | | posoo: WAT ever hapnuned to DOZOKIEL??? |
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| Jul-22-16 | | Patriot: <morf> LOL! Yeah it's definitely not a Monday problem. <AylerKupp> Oooh I would feel bad about that also. Sometimes being right isn't the only thing important--it's a question of what it's worth. <posoo> I neva saw anyone by dat name. |
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| Jul-22-16 | | greenfield67: 31...Ne2+ is such a lost opportunity. After 32.Rxe2 Ra1+, White can interpose with any of his six pieces, and on any of the five intervening squares, but cannot escape mate. |
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| Jul-22-16 | | Virgil A: That Rook reminds me of that Super Mario game. Just gobbling up anything on the way. That may be a good pun. Super Mario |
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| Jul-22-16 | | Virgil A: Super Marc |
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| Jul-23-16 | | nalinw: Yes 31. .... ? would also be a great puzzle - perhaps for a Tuesday? |
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| Jul-23-16 | | Moszkowski012273: Well played! |
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| Jul-23-16 | | Dirkster: Hey, <Patriot> - years before Lurch there was Maynard G. Krebs (played by Bob Denver) on "The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis". He was the first TV character to use the phrase "You rang?" (Who knew Lurch was a Dobie Gillis fan?!?) Anyway, this is an awesome game - ya gotta love that Rat! |
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| Jul-24-16 | | posoo: PUTROOT, yes u HAVE. There was a man named DOZOKIEL who wod always com on da puzzul of da day. He wod lay out da problem and then TYPE IT IN to da kibbitzing and be very thoroo. I suspected dat he wod actually cheat somtimes becus he was usually RIGHT. His AVATAR was a picture of him looking VERY INTENSE at a pon. |
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| Jul-25-16 | | Patriot: <Dirkster> I didn't know that! I used to watch the Addams Family but never watched Dobie Gillis. <posoo> There was a <dzechiel> by your description, but I don't think he ever cheated. He was thorough and I always enjoyed the way he analyzed. He would pull up Word or Notepad and type everything he wanted to say and without changing anything, he would copy and paste it into a post on the game puzzle--very honest. |
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| Jul-26-16 | | posoo: yes DATS da man. OK maybe he WS NOT cheating but WHERE DID HE GO i liked him. |
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| Feb-11-24 | | mel gibson: Didn't get this one today:
Stockfish 16 says:
29. .. Ra3
(29. .. Ra3 (1. ... Ra3 2.Rb3 Ra2 3.Rb2 Ra1 4.Rbb1 f5 5.Qd3 f4 6.Qf1 Rxb1 7.Bxb1 Qd7 8.h3 fxe3
9.Rxe3 Qe7 10.Nxf3 Nxf3+ 11.Kh1 Qxb4 12.Bd3 Qd2 13.Qg2 Qd1+ 14.Qf1 Qxf1+ ) +4.91/47 253) score for Black +4.91 depth 47. |
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| Feb-11-24 | | jffun1958: I didn't get this one today either. A thrilling game with many "2nd best moves" on both sides - as Stokfish reveals. |
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Feb-11-24
 | | chrisowen: Trouble its sap me its jug Ra3 flick its ho boo boa its et o take its goofball Ra3 v bb |
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| Feb-11-24 | | Messiah: Saw the main idea right away, making this Sunday even better than it already was. A very good day! |
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| Feb-12-24 | | Refused: 29...Ra3! is the obvious candidate. White's pieces lack coordination. The knight on e3 is needed to guard g2. That's the key theme here. The other problem is, that the other night on d2 needs to keep an eye on f3 in some lines a)30.Qxa3 Nxc2 is already disaster for white because e3 and a3 a forked. b)30.Qb2 Rxe3 and it's gone again
c)30.Nb3 Bh5 should be it (my starting point here was the idea of 30...Bh1 which looks very tempting but is unfortunately simply not working) d)30.Bb3 Bxe4 should be the end. As Black is once again threatening 31...Nf3+! 32.Nxf3 Qxf3 33.Kf1 Rd8 and this is just resignable. |
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| Feb-12-24 | | Allderdice83: Maybe it's because it's Monday morning after the Super Bowl and my brain wasn't fully awake yet, but I just got stumped completely on this one. Even after I saw the first move, I was thinking, what happens after 30. Qxa3 Nxc2 31. Qc3? I was thinking 31 ... Nxe1 32. Rxe1 when Black's still down a piece. It took a while for the light bulb to finally go on in the dark matter inside my head! The theme of the rook scouring the back rank, taking piece after piece as White can't take back or it's mate is quite chilling. If White hadn't resigned, the end might go like this: 34. Ndf1 Rxe1 35. Qxe1 Nf3+ 36. Kh1 Nxe1+ 37. f3 Nxf3 38. b5 b6 39. c5 bxc5 40. b6 cxb6 41. Nc4 Nd2+ 42. Kg1 Qg2#. White is reduced to just the two knights, which both are stuck in place, and after giving up both pawns, one of the knights must move, allowing a quick checkmate. |
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| Feb-12-24 | | whiteshark: this is considerably deeper |
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| Feb-12-24 | | TheaN: One of the first aspects my most prominent chess teacher learned me whilst attacking was to reload with pieces that aren't doing anything: we are sometimes way too keen to throw in sacrifices where they aren't warranted, and keeping the pressure up tends to be the hardest to defend against. Here, White has no defense against <29....Ra3! -+> but it otherwise upholds the reloading principle. The rooks are not doing anything, and this move throws one in with maximum force: 30.Qb2 Rxe3 -#1 taking out the defender, 30.Qxa3 Nxc2 -+ with an unconventional fork, 30.Nb3 Be2! -+ with a dazzling clearance. This leaves 30.Bb3 and 30.Rb3 as possible defenses, 30.Bb3 Bxe4 -+ and Black slowly breaks down White's position, 30.Rb3 requires 30....Ra2! -+ (not 30....Rea8? 31.Rxa3 Rxa3 32.Qxa3! Nxc2 33.Qa8+ +-), followed by Rea8 and White is helpless. |
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Feb-12-24
 | | Honza Cervenka: Instead of 19.f4 it was better to play 19.Nf6+! forcing 19...Bxf6 20.fxg4 Qxg4+ 21.Kh1 Qf3+ 22.Kg1 Qg4+ with perpetual. |
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Feb-13-24
 | | Sally Simpson: Sally Simpson: Good puzzle this highlighting a few deflecting the guard themes on g2 and e2 I got Ra3 quite quickly and thought that was it. White took the Rook and resigned after Black played Nxc2. But no. (I fell for the 'today is a Tuesday trap') and was treated to some nice wrap up play. |
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