Jun-18-07 J Henningsen vs R Borik, 1979 
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| cjhasbrouck: This puzzle is about 5,000,000,000x too difficult for a monday I'm taking chessgames.com out of my bookmarks list and never visiting this site again |
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Apr-17-07 J Cukierman vs NN, 1934
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| cjhasbrouck: Is 5. Qf3 good enough to win? |
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Apr-04-07 M R Sangeetha vs S Dhar, 2001
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| cjhasbrouck: This one was incredibly frustrating for me
I perfectly identified the rook pin at f6 and the queen being stuck on the G and H files, then looked at every move to deflect the enemy queen OTHER THAN Bf5 No puzzle has ever made me feel this stupid |
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Apr-02-07 Kashdan vs Euwe, 1932
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| cjhasbrouck: I think this is the second- or third-easiest possible attacking idea for a mating puzzle Really really easy
I think Chessgames.com just wanted to see how many people would play the totally unnecessary Bxd7 first :) |
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Mar-27-07 S Lorenz vs Andrey Orlov, 2001
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| cjhasbrouck: Way too easy for a Tuesday
Come on Chessgames, this is just silly
You're making Chess seem like Candyland |
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Mar-06-07 R D Gillon-Ferguson vs Euwe, 1921
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| cjhasbrouck: Why was the puzzle changed?
This is the second puzzle I've seen for Tuesday this week |
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Feb-19-07 NN vs E J Diemer, 1978
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| cjhasbrouck: Excellent puzzle material, but of course I think it should've been saved for about a Wednesday. There are so many Chess lovers that have no chance of solving this, the easiest puzzle of the week Like everybody else I spent 5 minutes looking at discovered checks before finding ... |
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Feb-14-07 L Lederman vs K Pytel, 1977
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| cjhasbrouck: <dzechiel>, this puzzle would be completely over the head of most every casual Chess player. If the week started at this difficulty level then those players wouldn't get to enjoy any of the puzzles at all, so I definitely don't think this puzzle belongs any earlier in the ... |
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Feb-13-07 Pillsbury vs G Marco, 1896
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| cjhasbrouck: I think I might stop coming to this site if early-week puzzles keep turning up harder and harder like this. You're excluding a huge chunk of your audience from the puzzles. It'd be such a simple task to include very easy puzzles at the front and very difficult puzzles at the ... |
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Jan-31-07 G Daskalov vs N Padevsky, 1970
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| cjhasbrouck: This puzzle is not Mondayish, this puzzle is perfect for a Wednesday Furthermore this puzzle is easier than both this week's Monday and this week's Tuesday Everything is screwed up this week |
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