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| May-07-08 | | YoungEd: Nice ending! |
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| Jun-25-12 | | ZeejDonnelly: Wow, a real fireworks finish from today's player of the day. Has anyone viewed his training DVDs? |
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| Jun-25-14 | | SpiritedReposte: Shots and counter-shots. Thought Lobron had that. |
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| May-02-15 | | mahaprabhu krishna: Lovely opening and a decent finish.
Roman played well. |
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Apr-17-18
 | | fredthebear: Spectacular! |
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| Nov-07-22 | | Brenin: Is this a Monday POTD? It took me a while to realise that the only way forward for Black was via Rd2 and Qh6-h2 in some order, but I didn't see very far into the game or the alternatives: certainly not the promotion of the e-pawn. |
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| Nov-07-22 | | Mayankk: Thinking its a Monday puzzle, I wanted to initially sac Rook via 30 ... Rxe3 but I struggled to find a continuation justifying this sac, since White can take via fxe3 instead of Kxe3 and then there are no easy checks for Black. I was also unable to bring the Bishop into play while moving the f4 Knight meant White King could sneak out via the crucial e2 square. After all the above confusion, I could only think of 30 .... Qh6 as a potential strong move - idea being to mate via Qh2 and Qg2# unless White takes the offered Knight via 31 gxf4 after which the Queen can start harassing it. However I didn't know if 31 ... Qxf4# had any merits and I certainly didn't know all the possible defences White could muster. |
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| Nov-07-22 | | Philidor Attack: How come these puzzles are wrong half the time? This is not "very easy". |
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Nov-07-22
 | | OhioChessFan: Ummm. Monday? |
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Nov-07-22
 | | whittaker: Great puzzle, though certainly not easy. I looked at 30 ... Qh6 31. gxf4 but missed the strong follow-up 31 ... Rd2! Amazingly, "crafty" also missed it, assuming Black would recapture with 31 ... exf4 when the evaluation is roughly -0.9. Only when I forced it to play 31 ... Rd2 did it see a clear win for Black with an eval of about -5. |
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| Nov-07-22 | | Chessius the Messius: Can't say I scored any points today. |
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| Nov-07-22 | | jrredfield: I think they got Sunday and Monday mixed up. This was far more difficult for me than yesterday's POTD. I looked at 30 ... Rxe3+ but quickly saw that it would fall flat. I tried to make something work with the Knight but no dice. I never considered the text move. Oh well, maybe easy Tuesday will be more to my liking. |
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| Nov-07-22 | | thegoodanarchist: Woke up to find it's Saturday in chess puzzle land. |
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| Dec-19-22 | | Brenin: Is this a Monday POTD? This position looked familiar, so I immediately thought of 30 ... Qh6. I didn't get the puzzle back in November, and I'm not sure that I completely understand it now. |
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| Dec-19-22 | | jrredfield: Recycled and no easier than the last time. Not sure what's going on here. |
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| Dec-19-22 | | mel gibson: I failed today.
I notice that today's puzzle has even been posted before on a Saturday and other days.Stockfish 15 says:
30... Qh6
(30. .. Qh6
(♕g5-h6 ♕b3-f7 ♖d3-d2 ♖a1-f1 ♘f4-e6 ♘e3-f5 ♕h6-h3 ♔f3-e3 ♖d2-d8 ♕f7-h5+
♕h3xh5 g4xh5 ♘e6-c5 f2-f3 ♘c5xa4 ♖f1-b1 ♖d8-d7 f3-f4 ♘a4-c5 b2-b4 a5xb4
c3xb4 ♘c5-e6 ♖b1-f1 e5xf4+ g3xf4 ♖d7-f7 ♖f1-f3 ♗c7-b6+ ♔e3-d3 ♖f7-d7+
♔d3-c4 ♗b6-c7 b4-b5 c6xb5+ ♔c4xb5 ♗c7xf4 ♖f3-f1 ♗f4-e5 ♔b5-b6 ♘e6-g5 ♖f1-e1
♗e5-d4+ ♘f5xd4 ♖d7xd4 e4-e5 ♖d4-d7 e5-e6 ♖d7-d6+ ♔b6xb7 ♖d6xe6 ♖e1-f1
♔h7-h6 ♔b7-c7 ♘g5-f3 ♔c7-d7 ♖e6-e1 ♖f1xf3 ♔h6xh5) +5.91/43 333) score for Black +5.91 depth 43. |
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| Dec-19-22 | | Mayankk: Keeping aside the mystery on why chessgames thinks this is 'very easy', 32... exf4 is a beautiful move in a very interesting game. Black wilfully allows his Queen to be pinned against his King, calculating that he can chalk an e5-f4-e3-e2-e1 pawn promotion sequence before White can make his extra Queen count. Maybe this puzzle can start on move 32 ... Black to play. Although that still won't qualify as easy in my books. |
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| Dec-19-22 | | King.Arthur.Brazil: I was in doubt about this move 30...♕h6 or 30...b6, although the first seemed better. White has lost a piece, but as capturing it back with 31. gxf4 ♖d2 the ♔ situation became very risky. For example, 32. ♖g1 ♕h3+ 33. ♖g3 ♕h1+ 36. ♖g2 exf4 or 34. ♘g2 exf4. Another possibility was 32. ♘f1 ♕xf4+ 33. ♔g2 ♕xf2+ 34. ♔h1 ♕g2#. Therefore, 31...♖d2 avoid the ♘ capturing. The only move to continue without check-mate seems to be: 31. ♕xb7 because now 31...♖d2 has the answer 32. ♕xc7. In this line, 32...♗d6 32. ♕f7. The position is unclear yet. The final combination (33.♖xf2+) is very unexpected and pretty surely. |
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Dec-19-22
 | | An Englishman: Good Evening: Have never encountered an impossible Monday puzzle before. Feels more Sunday-ish. That said, this must rank among Dzindzichashvili's greatest games. |
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Dec-19-22
 | | Dionysius1: I've had years of fun from the POTD but it's clear to me the feature is broken. Too many times over the last year it's been clear the assessment of the difficulty has been wrong - this is just the most recent one. Come on chessgames.com - it's your flagship and if it sinks, why should newbies become regulars and frequenters? |
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| Dec-19-22 | | Cibator: A Monday puzzle-setting*, rather than a Monday-puzzle setting. * People sometimes talk about "Monday cars" - ones made on that day, when workers may still be a bit woozy after the week-end's excesses, hence likelier to contain faults. ("Friday cars", made when everyone's about ready to drop, are said to have similar problems.) |
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Dec-19-22
 | | perfidious: Clever finish by Dzin, but in terms of difficulty, far from Monday POTD material, under the guise of which this has twice been submitted. |
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| Dec-19-22 | | hoodrobin: Very Easy for Dzindzichashvili. |
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Dec-19-22
 | | HeMateMe: Zindzi! |
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| Dec-19-22 | | mel gibson: OK -
the Monday puzzle was changed - it's here:
J F Cubas vs D Mastrovasilis, 2014 |
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