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Oct-09-09
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| SwitchingQuylthulg: OK another puzzle - this one could well be one of the Think Like Kramnik!™ series that once ran at <Tactic101>'s forum...
click for larger viewWhite has plenty of compensation for the two pawn deficit. What is the simplest way to draw? |
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Oct-09-09
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| ahmadov: Have I seen that before? I will come up with a solution later... |
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Oct-09-09
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| SwitchingQuylthulg: <ahmadov: Have I seen that before?> I've found that proving things to your satisfaction is very, very difficult so I won't even try in this instance. Anyway, I'll be the first to admit there are a great many things going on I know nothing about; I suppose one of them could have resulted in your coming across this position. Indeed, stranger things have happened, and some of them haven't even involved any as yet poorly understood quantum effects. So I can't prove it even to my own satisfaction. However, based on the data I have easy access to, I consider the probabilities to be heavily against. The relevant game was played just this morning so - while quite aware you might, say, have a rare medical condition eating at your short-term memory that I have somehow never heard about, so I by any means cannot try and offer this as any kind of clinching proof - I can't help feeling you'd sound just a little bit more certain if you had indeed come across the position somehow. And, in case the question you asked was merely rhetorical or otherwise not meant to be answered and you in fact had perfect recall of the position and all or at least most of the events - this is to say all the chains, trees and branches of causality relevant - that, step by step and leap by leap, eventually led to you seeing it I cannot help but think you would have been able to produce the solution or enough of it in quite a short time so as not to need to include the bit about "later". Now, I could be wrong. |
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Oct-13-09
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| ahmadov: <And, in case the question you asked was merely rhetorical or otherwise not meant to be answered and you in fact had perfect recall of the position and all or at least most of the events - this is to say all the chains, trees and branches of causality relevant - that, step by step and leap by leap, eventually led to you seeing it I cannot help but think you would have been able to produce the solution or enough of it in quite a short time so as not to need to include the bit about "later".>
Now this sentence and the position are equally difficult for me :-) I need some time to look at the position more carefully... Maybe then I can remember it... |
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| Oct-18-09 |
| 13stitches: Hello Zahir!
Have you heard form Branko? |
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Oct-19-09
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| ahmadov: Hello Rich! How are you?
I am afraid I have had no contact with our common friend for a long time now... See if you can somehow solve <Switch>'s puzzle above... |
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| Oct-19-09 |
| 13stitches: Thanks <Zahir>. The last time I visited his forum, you were talking about his mushroom searching. :) Ahh the puzzle? Ok I will copy the position and try to solve it while I tend my store. I am quite well though I've lost 10 lbs in the past two months. I should be happy I lost weight but I looked like I just came from a war. :) |
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| Oct-20-09 |
| 13stitches: Zahir!
About the Kramnik puzzle:
I don't care if White draws or not but the idea of 1.Bxc6 is fun! 1...bxc6 2.Rxc6 Ba6 3.Rxa6 Rxa6 4.Qb8+ Nxb8 5.Rc8+ Rf8 6.Rxf8#. See? Chess should be fun! |
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Oct-21-09
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| ahmadov: I guess your key move is the correct one... But you never know <Switch>, he may have different views ;-) |
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Oct-21-09
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| SwitchingQuylthulg: Well done <13stitches> - I was actually thinking the simplest draw would be with 4.Rc8+ Nf8 5.Qb8 h5! 6.Bxf8 Kh7 7.Bxg7! 
click for larger view7...Kxg7 8.Rh8 Qh7! 9.Rxh7+ Kxh7 10.Qb5 and White should always get a perpetual in somehow if Black tries to walk the a-pawn down the board (since that requires both rooks to leave the kingside). But 4.Qb8+!? Rf8 5.Rc8 h6 6.Qb7! is also probably drawn (while 4...Nf8 transposes to 4.Rc8+ above), so if you trust your ability to play the finish out accurately there, count a solution point :) |
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Oct-21-09
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| SwitchingQuylthulg: <ahmadov> Now, given that judging from the lack of any response from you to the drawing puzzle presented by me above beyond suggestions of an attempt at some unspecified occasion in the future - this is to say the complete and entire absence of a solution, a partial solution or indeed even any attempt at a solution in your posts - it is altogether too easy maybe for an observer of the type to draw conclusions from such things to draw the conclusion that the problem in question may have been, in difficulty, at a level beyond what you could, in as much or little time as you would feel inspired to devote, be trusted to solve; and even considering that it is often said it's only through inspecting and exploring the areas that cause problems and difficulty to us and developing them by careful and methodical further work and study that we can make any progress of significance and notability and that puzzles such as the one presented and analysed above do, by the very virtue of not being easy to you, fall into that category and that while they undoubtedly do provide a most splendid opportunity to help you develop your game if approached in the right way, the fact that chess and chess study should - at least for us non-professionals - be enjoyable first and most of all must not be forgotten or ignored and the other equally indisputable fact that in general it's those puzzles and problems we are able to overcome that produce the most enjoyment and delight and that, at least judging by my own experience, you are no exception to the rule and this very much applies, it occurs to me that maybe a slightly easier and simpler problem would be a welcome source of confidence and inspiration at this point in time and therefore I now present one that would, on the ChessGames scale, most probably fall on a Monday - indeed, so easy it is that it could fall on the day before were that not Sunday and deserved for altogether much more difficult puzzles - on the basis that it is nevertheless a most useful little tactic to be able to spot and recognize and it would truly be a pity if, on one day, you were given the opportunity to actually play it over the board and you'd fail to spot it; and of course more still if you would allow an enemy and opponent to pull it off against you.
click for larger viewWhite to move. :) |
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Oct-21-09
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| ahmadov: Is my forum the only place you are prcticing your complecated English? :-) I will read your posts and after understanding them I will try to see what you meant with the new diagramme and if it is another puzzle, then I will try to solve it as well... All this may take some time though... ;-) |
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Oct-21-09
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| SwitchingQuylthulg: <ahmadov: Is my forum the only place you are prcticing your complecated English? :-)> I already cut down on the number of sentences and full stops and you still say it's complicated? Well, okay, if really necessary I guess I can simplify further by cutting out most commas, hyphens and brackets too... |
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| Oct-22-09 |
| 13stitches: <Is my forum the only place you are prcticing your complicated English? :-)> The puzzles are less complicated, Zahir. Concentrate on them, instead. :) |
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| Oct-22-09 |
| 13stitches: Well done <13stitches> You call that "well" when in fact, I can't see that move OTB. |
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| Nov-01-09 |
| AbhinavAsthana: I slept three times trying to figure out what <SwitchingQuylthulg> means. !!No offence!! ---
How is it going <ahmadov>!? I am just wandering here and there in India, but I like it. |
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Nov-01-09
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| virginmind: congratulations for your country winning the european team championship in novi sad, <ahmadov>! i take it <SwitchingQuylthulg> had a complicated sense of humour with that long post of his - the issue at hand being puzzle solving he probably wanted to offer a written one too...:) |
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Nov-01-09
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| ahmadov: <virginmind> Thanks a lot indeed! That victory means a lot for the chess community and the country in general... I guess this is one of the goals that our chess players achieved. |
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Nov-01-09
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| ahmadov: <AbhinavAsthana> I have already sent you a letter through email...
BTW, thanks for dropping by from time to time... |
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Nov-01-09
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| ahmadov: <13stitches><The puzzles are less complicated, Zahir. Concentrate on them, instead. :)> Hi Rich! I have been so busy that I have not replied to your post on facebook yet, let alone solving puzzles to that degree of difficulty... Please, do not hesitate to post your solutions if you have any... |
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| Nov-03-09 |
| Jafar219: Salam Zahir, şükür hər şey yaxşıdır.Sən necəsən? O ermənilərə aid fikrinlə razıyam.
Zahir mümkünsə mənə chessbase.com da yazdığın məqalənin linkini verə bilərsən? Nədənsə tapa bilmirəm. |
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Nov-05-09
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| ahmadov: Salam, Jafar, sen hansi meqaleni sorusursan? Sadece, web site-da "zahir", "ahmadov" ya da "Baku" yaz, hemin meqaleler cixacaq. Men isteyirdim bu qelebe munasibetile de bir meqale hazirlayim, amma isim heddinden artiq cox olduguna gore buna vaxt ayira bilmirem... |
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| Nov-05-09 |
| Jafar219: Salam Zahir,Bakıda keçirilən Fide Grand Prix ə aid məqaləni və Women in Chess aid məqaləni tapmaq mümkündür.Mənim istədiyim sizin Faiq Həsənovla olan müsahibənizin də yer aldığı məqaləni nəzərdə tuturam. |
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| Nov-06-09 |
| AbhinavAsthana: Hello <ahmadov>, received your wonderful email. Thanks for the wishes. Through this website, I have found so many good people and you are the best amongst them! I would have never known the Azeri cultures and about Azerbaijan if I had not met you. I really appreciate the good friendship from all of you. Thanks. |
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| Nov-10-09 |
| 13stitches: Will do so <Zahir>. You must be a great dancer based on those pictures, eh? :) |
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