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Apr-14-08 | | UdayanOwen: And <Johnlspouge> is on the right track.... Most of the .00037 seconds was the reaction time, after completing the puzzle, for my brain to send a message to my thumb and and for my thumb to stop the clock. |
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Apr-14-08 | | eblunt: Too slow <UdayanOwen> I got this one even before I click on the page. |
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Apr-14-08 | | lost in space: 18. Dxh7 Kxh7 19. hxg6# |
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Apr-14-08 | | DarthStapler: Got it |
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Apr-14-08 | | dzechiel: <A.G. Argent: <dzechiel:... You big bully, you. (Nudge, nudge.)> Sometimes it does feel that way. But then I suffer an embarrassing defeat at the hands of a different unknown guest player and I realize that what goes around comes around. |
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Apr-14-08 | | wals: Static Evaluation: White is down a pawn. Has a Knight for a dark diagonal bishop.
Black is underdeveloped.
Dynamic Evaluation: White has more mobility. The black King is immobile.
The white Queen is en prise.
Abstract Assessment: If the Queen takes h7+, the King must tale the Queen,
ph5xg6+ and the King is rooked to death (a ghastly fate) by Rh2, unable to take g6
because of Bd3.
Reasonable moves, Qxh7, ph5xg6
Candidate Move:
18.Qxh7+ ...Kxh7 19.h5xg6#
PM=
Result is exactly by the script |
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Apr-14-08 | | TrueBlue: I found this one rather difficult because of all the variations. More difficult than the typical Monday. |
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Apr-14-08 | | patzer2: For today's easy Monday puzzle solution, 18. Qxh7+! initiates a mate-in-two with double discovered check and mate after 18...Kxh7 19. h5xg6#. |
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Apr-14-08 | | GannonKnight: TB -- Glad to see it was a bit of a struggle for you as well. A clever solution, but it took a tad longer than the usual Monday. |
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Apr-14-08 | | grasser: Austin needs lessons. He resigns this game because he thinks he is going a piece down. All he loses is a pawn.
M Raizman vs A De Burca, 1935 |
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Mar-09-09 | | WhiteRook48: Austin is a bad player |
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Jul-27-21
 | | jessicafischerqueen:
<Steve Austin> however was a fast runner. |
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Jul-16-24
 | | Korora: You know Henny Youngman's famous one-liner. |
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Jul-16-24 | | Mayankk: Pretty solution. 18 Qxh7+ Kxh7 19 hxg6#. Its a double check and King has no squares to move. |
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Jul-16-24 | | King.Arthur.Brazil: Beautiful mate: 18. Qxh7+ Kxh7 19. hxg6#. |
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Jul-16-24
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Jul-16-24 | | Allderdice83: The losing move is 16 ... Kh8. Before that, Black is holding on, just barely, with 16 ... g5. Black starts to go wrong with 10 ... c6?! (10 ... Rb8 or 10 ... f5). 11 ... Nf6?! was the second mistake (11 ... h6). 13 ... h5 would have been an improvement over 13 ... g6. It's a series of errors that dooms Black. |
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Jul-16-24 | | mel gibson: Easy Tuesday. |
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Jul-16-24 | | Damenlaeuferbauer: After long thinking, the strong American Arthur Dake, who beat the reigning world champion Alexander Alekhine 3 years earlier in Pasadena/California, finally found the mate in 2 moves with the nice queen sacrifice 18.Qxh7+,Kxh7 19.hxg6#. I love Tuesdays! |
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Jul-16-24 | | saturn2: 18. Qxh7 drags the king into a doublecheck which is also mate. |
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Jul-16-24 | | TheaN: <18.Qxh7+ Kxh7 19.hxg6#> freebie because yesterday wasn't two move mate? I'll take it. |
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Jul-16-24 | | cocker: 17 ... Bg7 was very obliging - a help mate. |
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Jul-16-24
 | | chrisowen: Hq full we raid joy Qxh7+ affect pack eel aad dank aoc jack Qxh7+ gab; |
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Jul-16-24 | | Lambda: Note that this can be a good way of starting a king hunt even without the bishop. For instance, if we tweak the position to this, the idea still works:  click for larger view |
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Jul-16-24 | | TheaN: <Lambda> that is absolutely ridiculous, in hindsight: White would be mating with two rooks and a knight with decent space for the Black king: 18.Qxh7+ Kxh7 19.hxg6+ Kxg6 20.Nh4+ Kh5 (Kh6/7 21.Nf5+ Kg6 (Bh6, if after Kh7, 22.Rxh6#) 22.Ne7#) 21.Nf5+ Kg4 (Kg6 22.Ne7#) 22.Ne3+ Kg3 23.Rh3#:
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Ouch. |
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