Dec-17-18 | | tjshann: Monday. Hmm...no Queen Sac possible. Guess it means I have to Sac the Rook |
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Dec-17-18 | | lost in space: I love Mondays!
47.Rxe8+ Kxe8 48.Nd6+ K(any legal move) 49.Nxb7 and 1:0 (piece plus pawn up) |
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Dec-17-18 | | ChessHigherCat: <tjshann>: that's exactly what I was going to say :-) |
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Dec-17-18 | | patzer2: Knight fork Monday was easy today with 47. Rxe8+ +-. For a Black improvement, I slightly prefer the popular move 2...Nf6 = to ⩲ as in Black's win in the blitz game Ding Liren vs Caruana, 2018. |
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Dec-17-18
 | | An Englishman: Good Evening: Personally, would have played 6...Bxc3+ just for the sake of consistency. Kasparov surely would have had a good laugh. |
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Dec-17-18 | | Cheapo by the Dozen: The old sac-and-fork trick. |
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Dec-17-18 | | agb2002: White has an extra pawn.
The knight is trapped after 47.Rxe8+ Kxe8 48.Nd6+ Kf8 49.Nxb7 Be7 but the white king can march to d5 to play Nd6 and Black can't stop it. |
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Dec-17-18 | | Cheapo by the Dozen: The puzzle would have been a little better if it started one move earlier. |
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Dec-17-18 | | saturn2: I saw 47. Rxe8+ Kxe8 48. Nd6+ Ke7
49. Nxb7
Black can hamper the knight by
49...Bc7
But the black king cannot cross the d file. White can procede on the kingside. |
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Dec-17-18 | | OrangeTulip: The most basic tactics there is.
You have to see this in one (or two) seconds, if not time to start training your tactics! |
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Dec-17-18 | | mel gibson: Took me 5 seconds - easy one. |
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Dec-17-18 | | stacase: More than 5 seconds here, and afterward it might be sticky to get the knight out of the corner. But Black dumped his king so it doesn't matter. |
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Dec-17-18 | | Walter Glattke: Knight fork, we love Mondays. 49.-Bc7 50.Kf3 could go to c6. |
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Dec-17-18 | | cocker: After taking the rook, White's knight is stuck on b7, but this doesn't seem to matter. |
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Dec-17-18 | | Lambda: Needs a little thought after you see the tactic, the knight is trapped on b7, and opposite coloured bishops speak against just taking a pawn with it and accepting a two pawn advantage. But the black king is trapped in a box, the white king can march up to c6 and attack the all-important b6 pawn, and all black can do is counterattack the white kingside pawns, which isn't going to be enough against the piece advantage with a collapsing black queenside. |
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Dec-17-18 | | whiteshark: After I lost yesterday in a team match my won game and thus the competition, I am glad not to have lost all my chess knowledge... |
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Dec-17-18 | | zb2cr: White wins a piece by 47. Rxe8+, Kxe8; 48. Nd6+ forking the Black Rook at b7. |
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Dec-17-18 | | Ceri: <mel gibson:
I don't know how to set the hash table.
I have 16 Gig of RAM but Stockfish 10 is only using a tiny part of it. I can't seem to make it use more RAM.
I have an i7 2600k quad core.>
From yesterday.
I use a Shredder GUI and when I change the engine, it asks me to input the amount of hash. Mine is a Dell 7700 all-in-one with an AMD Ryzen 1700 CPU and 16 Gig of RAM. That benches at 10% faster than yours in single thread and 2.3 x as fast as yours in multi-thread. Cheers,
Ceri |
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Dec-17-18
 | | Penguincw: Yay, easy Monday puzzle to start the week.
Normally Mondays have queen sac, but there is no queen, so you sacrifice the next most valuable piece - the rook. |
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Dec-17-18 | | mel gibson: <From yesterday.
I use a Shredder GUI and when I change the engine, it asks me to input the amount of hash. Mine is a Dell 7700 all-in-one with an AMD Ryzen 1700 CPU and 16 Gig of RAM. That benches at 10% faster than yours in single thread and 2.3 x as fast as yours in multi-thread. Cheers,
Ceri>
I'll check it out.
I'm using the Arena interface.
I had another look and it just can't be forced to use more RAM.
I could be doing something wrong. |
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Dec-17-18 | | boringplayer: White's bishop and knight form a barrier, preventing the Black king from attacking the knight. |
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Dec-18-18
 | | Check It Out: <whiteshark> argh, the agony of defeat. |
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Dec-21-18 | | mel gibson: <I'll check it out.
I'm using the Arena interface.
I had another look and it just can't be forced to use more RAM. I could be doing something wrong.> you're right - I can increase the hash table & use more RAM. |
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