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| Mar-24-18 | | ChessHigherCat: So it was a little trickier than I thought but it's still easy to win because if 58. Rb8 b5! and either cxb5 or Kd8 are followed by c6-c7 with die-er consequences for black |
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| Mar-24-18 | | ChessHigherCat: I guess that's how you can tell who has you on ignore: <Al Wazir>: 54 Rh7+ Rg7 55. Rh8 Rg8 56. Rf6 Rg6, with a romantic evening of dancing the 2-step ahead of you. |
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| Mar-24-18 | | Granny O Doul: Nice to see Myag on a good day. Makes me hopeful for my other favorites, people like Dufresne, Von Bardeleben, or the Three Swedish Amateurs. |
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| Mar-24-18 | | Big Pawn: <al-wazir: After 54. Rh7+ K any 55. Rxb7, there's no way to prevent promotion. Black's goose is cooked, and so is the puzzle.> Not only is he laughably wrong but he’s arrogant about it too. |
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| Mar-24-18 | | stst: Quite easy, strategy is clear: R-sac to exchange for a P, then march down the left side P:
54.Rxc6 bxR
55.b7 Rb8
56.Kxa6 Ke7
57.Ka7 Rd8 (R can't get closer)
58.b8=Q RxQ
59.KxR Kd7 (K has to stay away too)
60.Kb7 Zuwzewag? K any legal move
61.Kxc6 and the two P can't be stopped.
see if the game proceeds in other ways.... |
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| Mar-24-18 | | stst: <..After 54. Rh7+ K any..> "any" is too obvious to some, but not really "any" for others. How about R intercept, "any" not for the K, but Rg7, then White's unilateral thought is by itself "any" (i.e., any, too loose!!) |
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| Mar-24-18 | | wtpy: Easiest Saturday puzzle ever. After 54 Rc6 bc6 either 55 Ka6 or b7 win handily. Agree with Chesshighercat that 54.. Rb8 is best met by 55 b5.
It is Friday night so perhaps aL wazir overindulged in his favorite intoxicant thus explaining both the error and the attitude of his post. Nothing a good night's sleep won't cure. |
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| Mar-24-18 | | ChessHigherCat: <wtpy> Easiest Saturday puzzle ever following the hardest Friday puzzle ever. The proof that two wrongs make two wrongs :-) I agree with your intoxicants theory [hic!] I mean [sic!] |
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Mar-24-18
 | | An Englishman: Good Evening: Too easy for Saturday, esp. after yesterday's, but what impresses me consists of how White saw the potential for a c6 sacrifice on move 41 and proceeded to move his King from h2 to a5 over the next 9 moves. By no means inevitable that he would win as he did, but he gave himself the extra chance, just in case Black let it happen. |
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Mar-24-18
 | | perfidious: <blathering pretentiousness....Not only is he laughably wrong but he’s arrogant about it too.> Y'all mean in the same inimitable style as you?
Mote 'n the beam, <boy>! Probably <wazir> put the king on the wrong square in his analysis: no big deal there. Happens to even players as great as you believe you are, same as those whom you style as being 'just another egg in the carton'. |
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| Mar-24-18 | | Gregor Samsa Mendel: I think CG occasionally tosses in unusually easy puzzles on Saturdays and Sundays to give patzers like me hope. "Hey! I solved a Saturday puzzle! I must be getting better!" |
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| Mar-24-18 | | saturn2: First two moves seen.
Black has to give back the rook for one pawn and then it is a won pawn ending. |
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| Mar-24-18 | | WorstPlayerEver: Whoa already Monday again?! |
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| Mar-24-18 | | agb2002: I've seen this ending before. |
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| Mar-24-18 | | gofer: I don't see this as <Very Difficult>. The only move to avoid is 54 Rh7+ which looks like a draw. <54 Rxc6 bxc6>
<55 b7 ...>
At this point any rook move loses immediately and any king move loses
quite quickly.
55 ... Rb8
56 Kxa6 Ke7
57 Ka7 +-
<55 ... Ke7>
<56 Kxa6 Kd7>
<57 Kb6 ...>
The black king has no access to the pawn and white simply has to bring another
pawn up to help out (and he has two!).
57 ... Any king move
58 Kxc6 +-
57 ... Rg7/Rg6
58 b8=Q +-
57 ... Rb8/Rd8/Re8/Rf8/Rh8
58 b5 cxb5
59 c6+ Kd6/Ke7
60 c7 +-
57 ...
58 b5 cxb5
59 c6+ Kd6
60 c7 +-
~~~
Yep, a bit easy for a <Saturday> |
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| Mar-24-18 | | mel gibson: Looks easy to me -
I saw the first move straight away.
Stockfish 8 says:
54. Rxc6
(54. Rxc6 (♖h6xc6 b7xc6 b6-b7 ♖g8-e8 ♔a5xa6 ♖e8-d8 ♔a6-a7 ♖d8-d7 ♔a7-a8
g5-g4 f3xg4 ♖d7-d1 b7-b8♕ f4-f3 g2xf3 ♖d1-b1 ♔a8-a7 ♖b1-h1 ♕b8xe5 ♖h1-b1
♕e5-c7+ ♔f7-f6 ♕c7xc6+ ♔f6-g5 ♕c6-c7 ♔g5-f6 ♕c7-f4+ ♔f6-e7 ♕f4-d6+ ♔e7-f7
c5-c6 ♖b1-h1 ♕d6-d5+ ♔f7-g6 c6-c7 ♖h1-f1 ♕d5-h5+ ♔g6-f6 ♕h5-f5+ ♔f6-e7
♕f5-e5+ ♔e7-d7 ♔a7-b7 ♖f1-c1) +M32/36 )
score for White Mate in 32 |
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| Mar-24-18 | | patzer2: Not exactly Monday level for me, but easy enough because I'm given the clue it's a puzzle. And, at a glance, 54. Rxc6 bxc6 55. b7 +- is the only move I can find to offer winning chances. In the final position, 57...Rb8 is obviously met with 58. b5 +-. P.S.: One interesting aspect to the game for me was the moves leading up to today's Saturday (54. ?) puzzle position. The real difficulty I found in the game was in recognizing 51. Qd6+! +- (+4.00 @ 47 ply, Stockfish 9) is a forced win. |
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| Mar-24-18 | | Timi: Unusually easy for a Saturday Puzzle |
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| Mar-24-18 | | Whitehat1963: I never solve Friday puzzles, and yet I saw the basic idea here immediately. |
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| Mar-24-18 | | morfishine: <54.Rxc6> 54...bxc6 <55.Kxa6> looks hopeless for Black ***** |
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| Mar-24-18 | | Clemens Scheitz: <Big Pawn's "laughably wrong and arrogant about it too" > <perfidious, ...you mean in the same inimitably style as you? > Thanks <perfidious>, you really made my day. What a beautiful example of hitting the nail in the head. |
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| Mar-24-18 | | jrredfield: Like others have said, this definitely was the easiest Saturday puzzle ever for me. I was actually on the phone taking care of something and decided to go to this page and be ready to solve it after my call was done, but it was so easy that I got it in about 5 seconds even while on the phone. 54.Rxc6 is the only way to break the pawn deadlock, and Black's king is too far away. |
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| Mar-24-18 | | SEVEN: Oh boy! I love pawn chains. |
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Mar-24-18
 | | Jimfromprovidence: Let's see what happens if we re-purpose the puzzle. If the king is on a4, below, with white to move. does he still win?
click for larger view |
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| Mar-24-18 | | Andrew Chapman: 'After 54. Rh7+ K any 55. Rxb7, there's no way to prevent promotion. Black's goose is cooked, and so is the puzzle.' 54Rh7+ Rg8. Which explains 53...Kf7
Andrew |
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