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| thatsmate: "syracrophy: <Milo: 1.d5 Qxd5 2.Bg2 maybe?> 1.d5? Bxd5!"
I am afraid this is incorrect- if Bxd5, Bc4 wins. However, 1. d5? loses to ...Qxd5 2. Bg2 (or Bc4) Qxd2! with mate in one. The answer is very simple and elegant:
1. Bc4! Qxc4
2. Rh1!! Qg8
3. Rh8 Ke1
4. Rxg8+ Kf7
4. Rf8+ Kxg7
5. Rxf2
And black cannot hold. |
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| Jun-29-07 |
| gauer: Composed by Samuel Loyd, La Strategie, 1867, seven men vs three men:
click for larger viewWhite plays, Checkmating in two moves.
A hint is the idea behind the related theme:
click for larger viewFor other ideas of what I like to think of as the Red Rover theme, see: Kudrin vs R Douven, 1989 |
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| Jul-13-07 |
| pferd: <gauer> Qg4+ and if f5 then gxf6++.
Only Loyd could get away with such a key move (giving check!) Now for something easy:
click for larger view
White to win |
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Jul-18-07
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| BishopBerkeley: Was Sam Loyd indirectly responsible for the management slogan, "Think outside the box"? It appears that the famous "nine dots" puzzle which appeared in his 1914 "Cyclopedia of Puzzles" is widely regarded as the origin of this familiar exhortation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thinki... (:  Bishop Berkeley :)
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Jul-18-07
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| ahmadov: I think Sam should have refrained from playing chess in order to save a better image as a person involved in this game... |
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Nov-24-07
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| whiteshark: One day a patzer claimed to draw easily against Loyd only by copying his moves.
Here's the game Loyd-N.N. that followed:
<1.d4 d5 2.Qd3 Qd6 3.Qh3 Qh6 4.Qc8#> |
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Nov-24-07
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| alexmagnus: <whiteshark> It is even possible to win by copying moves: <1.e4 e5 2.Ke2 Ke7 3.Ke3 Ke6 4.Qf3 Qf6 5.Ne2 Ne7 6.b3 b6 7.Ba3 Ba6 8.Nd4+ and black has no way out - 8...exd4#> |
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Nov-24-07
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| whiteshark: <alexmagnus> Nice finding! It looks like the first serious win with a <WannaBe>Gambit (1.e4 e5 2.Ke2) ;D. |
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Jan-12-08
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| ahmadov: <A piece in the hand is worth a mate in the bush.>
A very well rephrased proverb... |
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| Jan-12-08 |
| goldenbear: <admadov> Without getting too crude, I'd like to say that I profoundly disagree with that quote. |
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Jan-13-08
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| ahmadov: <goldenbear: <admadov> Without getting too crude, I'd like to say that I profoundly disagree with that quote.> You do not sound any rude, but do you not get a mate by winning more pieces... Does <a mate in the bush> mean we could be far from reaching it? Anyway, your point provokes me to challenge you to a game on gameknot.com :-) |
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Feb-23-08
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| Knight13: He drew a picture of Henry Edward Bird, which can be viewed by clicking on that link. |
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Jun-16-08
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| whiteshark: Quote of the Day
"My theory of a key-move was always to make it just the reverse of what a player in 999 cases out of 1000 would look for." -- Sam Loyd |
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Jun-16-08
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| Sneaky: <Knight13: He drew a picture of Henry Edward Bird, which can be viewed by clicking on that link.> And what a great sketch it is! On top of everything else, the guy is even handy with pen & ink. What an incredible talent Loyd was--a true genius. |
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| Jul-09-08 |
| SBC: <syracrophy: <<T Ciddasselepoh>: Did Sam Loyd ever meet Paul Morphy?> I don't know. I don't think so, because Paul Morphy was an avid player of tournaments and Sam Loyd just appeared in a few tournaments. But I don't really know> Morphy and 16 yr. old Sam Loyd met at the 1st American Chess Congress of 1857 (Morphy's ONLY tournament). Morphy gave Sam Loyd Queen Knight odds (and won) on Oct. 10, 1860 while they both worked for the Chess Monthly, however the score doesn't exist. They possibly played other games besides. Morphy was anything BUT an avid tournament player, believing that match play was the ONLY true test of skill and that tournaments left too much to chance. |
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Aug-17-08
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| vonKrolock: Alain C. White, circa 1911: <"Morphy and Loyd alike first tried their spurs against any powerfull corps of adversaries in the lists of the First American Chess Congress. Morphy readily carried off the First Prize from all comers in the Grand Tournament; but in the Problem Tourney Loyd was only placed third. For this there were, I think, several reasons. His opponents, notably Rudolf Willmers and Conrad Bayer , who defeated him, were relativelly stronger than the opponents of Morphy, with the exception of Paulsen" -< to be continued - for Willmers, have a look on> Schumann |
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| Jan-02-09 |
| zzzzzzzzzzzz: i've seen one of his awesome puzzles |
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| Jan-02-09 |
| YJGYJ: I played the 15 puzzle as a kid. I love now knowing where it came from. Banning it during work hours in the 1800's reminds me of workplaces trying to ban Soduko and Solitaire! |
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| Jan-02-09 |
| YJGYJ: But Wikipedia says he didn't INVENT the puzzle at all, but popularized it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiftee... |
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| Jan-02-09 |
| WhiteRook48: Loyd also composed the shortest stalemate |
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Jan-02-09
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| sleepyirv: <YJGYJ> But then Sam Loyd's wiki entry says he MIGHT have- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Loyd But that's what you get with wikipedia |
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| Mar-02-09 |
| MrMelad: Sam Loyd loved 8x8 boards...
http://www.cut-the-knot.org/Curricu... |
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Jun-14-09
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| vonKrolock: article on-line by G. K. Ware <"Mr. Postman, Have You Got A Letter For Me? "> http://main.uschess.org/content/vie...
on this genre of 'alphabetic chess problems' - Loyd make some notorious incursions in this field, but the names that comes to mind immediatelly are Charles Gilberg and Mrs. Baird for the ancients, and the newers Pal Benkö, Anthony Taffts and the portuguese Rui Nascimento (born 14-vi-1914 - 95 today!) |
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| Jun-15-09 |
| chesssantosh: great man sam loyd |
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Aug-08-09
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| BishopBerkeley: Some phrases are fresh and meaningful when they are first used, but overuse often reduces them to cliches. Perhaps one of the most overused phrases among management folk is "(to) think outside the box". I think the phrase itself has worked its way INTO the box: the hum-drum, uncreative pronouncements that we sometimes make without thinking much about them. Animator Joseph Pelling has a bit of fun with this one -- two pseudo-visionary consultant-types trying to out-clever one another with this tired phrase. Fun viewing! (Best viewed on full screen.) http://www.vimeo.com/5225011
Incidentally, I think there is general agreement that the phrase originated with the famous "nine dots" puzzle of 19th century puzzle maestro Sam Loyd. The goal of the puzzle is to link all 9 dots using four straight lines or less, without lifting the pen: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:N...
Of course, most people try this for awhile, come to believe it cannot be done, and then give up. It CAN be done, IF and ONLY IF we are willing to wander outside the unreal boundaries of the box that the mind (typically) places around it: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped... All rather amusing....
(: Bishop Berkeley :) |
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