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https://www.chessgames.com/puzzle.html Anonymous Dec 15 2025 7:41:13 AM No.20416 [View All]

Black to play
A Budo vs Taimanov
https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1137688&m=40.5

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⛵💻 Mar 27 2026 12:38:15 AM No.22649

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>>22113 I went
black: knight X C3
white: pawn X knight
black: bishop A3, check
white: king c2
black: pawn f4, check
white: king b3
black: bishop X h3
white: pawn X f4
from there I traded my bishop for the rook before pulling back the black bishop, ending up +2 in material, whereas Bluebaum pulled back the black bishop and lost a pawn before trading for the rook. Neither sequence was optimal.

Anonymous Mar 27 2026 8:27:23 PM No.22676

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>>22559
>>22649
... Rxf6+
g7xf6 Qxf6++
Rook sac to mate.

Anonymous Mar 30 2026 5:19:47 AM No.22772

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White to play
Y Sakharov vs K Lerner
https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=2362391&m=43

Anonymous Mar 31 2026 2:06:34 AM No.22790

>>22649
Admin:
Whites are racist.
That is all.

Anonymous Apr 06 2026 6:21:19 AM No.23007

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White to play
Sasikiran vs Shabalov
https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1804988&m=24

Anonymous Apr 07 2026 7:01:56 AM No.23035

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White to play
M Panelo vs S Foisor
https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1173083&m=30

⛵💻 Apr 09 2026 12:27:35 PM No.23106

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>>22141
White: rook f1
Black: rook f8
White: rook X pawn
Black: rook X rook d6
White: rook X rook
from there it goes off the rails because Black/Aravindh didn't take the optimal move rook b6, not that I would have found it anyway.

I really dislike these open-ended puzzles.

Anonymous Apr 14 2026 1:50:33 AM No.23231

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White to play and Mate in 4

Anonymous Apr 14 2026 4:40:30 AM No.23236

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White to play
Mackenzie vs S R Dill
https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=2926443&m=23

Moony Apr 14 2026 5:29:11 AM No.23237

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Chess is not a game of deception. It is a game of memory. How do we know this? Well if it's the deception guy vs the memory guy the memory guy always wins.
Since I'm having trouble remembering things because I don't link emotions to memories very well one of my nurses has suggested I pick up chess. It has the guise of deception. Tricking your opponent to make a faulty move but it has memory as its core. In other words you can get pass novice level by being deceptive in chess but it is in no way near as limitless as having a good memory.
Deception will eventually lead to cheating. While there is no point in cheating in chess it's fun to learn and how to mirror engines against engines and pick the best of those engines and mirror it against a player. It's pretty boring once you know how to do it though because you're just doing what a machine tells you to do. Nothing else.
Is mankind's memory limited to never reach the trillion possible moves in chess? Well ofc it is and if it came down to two players having enough memory to fill out the entire game, maybe deception would play a role. Probably not though. It would probably turn into a discussion of how unbalanced chess is since white always starts.

Anonymous Apr 14 2026 9:01:41 AM No.23239

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Daily Chess Puzzle
Black to play
NN vs A Fritz
https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1336203&m=14.5

Moony Apr 16 2026 7:24:17 AM No.23282

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there are two colors in my head
there are two colors in my head

Anonymous Apr 20 2026 7:52:34 AM No.23364

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Black to play
T Georgadze vs A Kuindzhy
https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1272300&m=48.5

Anonymous Apr 21 2026 7:47:39 AM No.23392

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Black to play
A Jones vs J Gallagher
https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=2233537&m=26.5

Anonymous Apr 27 2026 6:08:19 AM No.23528

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Black to play
Karjakin vs X Bu
https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1489124&m=36.5

Anonymous Apr 28 2026 5:34:40 AM No.23547

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White to play
Blatny vs L Kotan
https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1340902&m=29

⛵💻 May 04 2026 12:06:06 AM No.23890

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>>22270
Black: rook X bishop, check
White: pawn X rook
Black: pawn h5, check
White: king moves away from white queen
Black: queen X queen

See, now this is the type of puzzle I can get behind... a distinct tactic with a clear endpoint that isn't 5-7 moves for a +0.5 advantage.

>>22676 That's correct. I hadn't gotten to that one yet.

Anonymous May 04 2026 7:33:49 AM No.23926

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White to play
Anderssen vs E Schallopp
https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1284232&m=13

Anonymous May 04 2026 4:53:51 PM No.23944

I still suck at chess

Anonymous May 05 2026 5:19:58 AM No.23990

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>>23944
You just need to practise more, dude.

Anonymous May 05 2026 6:27:44 AM No.23994

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White to play
Kasparov vs S Tatai
https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1070198&m=40

⛵️☎️ May 07 2026 4:28:02 PM No.24146

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>>22385
White: Queen X Bishop, check
Black: Queen X Queen
White: Bishop g2
Black: Queen X Bishop, check
Wow: King X Queen

Actual game: black resigned after Queen X Bishop

Anonymous May 11 2026 8:37:09 AM No.24233

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White to play
Lutikov vs J Klavins
https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=2263796&m=37

⛵️☎️ May 11 2026 3:45:12 PM No.24242

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>>22403
White: rook X g6
Black: queen X rook
White: bishop h5
Black: queen X bishop
White: queen X queen, check

Actual game: black resigned after 2 additional moves

⛵️☎️ May 12 2026 2:06:37 AM No.24249

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>>22534
Black: b3, check
White: king X rook
Black: knight b4, check
White: ?
Black: knight X queen

Yeah I fucked it up. No wonder...

The actual game: yet another puzzle where not even the grandmasters played the optimal moves. Bad puzzle.

Anonymous May 12 2026 7:07:03 AM No.24254

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White to play
R Ziatdinov vs Tseshkovsky
https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1387081&m=32

⛵️☎️ May 15 2026 6:45:56 AM No.24330

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>>22606 That was a really interesting game.

>>22772 I can already tell I'm going to fuck this one up.
...
Ok, after trying a bunch of different lines, this puzzle seems to rely on black blundering to make anything significant happen.
The safest line starts with bishop b5 but black has plenty of options.
I expect the "correct" line starts with rook x e6 and relies on black blundering with rook x rook. Aside from that I expect there are too many unforced moves to have a definitive solution.

And then in the actual game.... black blunders with rook x rook and then surrenders after white's next move. Unfortunately this is yet another flawed puzzle.
To clarify, white is ahead, and rook X e6 is the correct starting move. But winning from that point as white requires perfect play in a ridiculously complex situation that can turn around easily, since black has the initiative and white must respond perfectly to any number of viable moves that are not at all obvious. nightmare puzzle.

Anonymous May 17 2026 2:06:00 AM No.24354

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>>24330
>And then in the actual game.... black blunders with rook x rook
It's not so much "blunders" as a forced move. If black doesn't take the rook, the white rook will take the black rook which leads to threatening the queen, being up one pawn and be closer to a check-mate anyways.
Chess is as much forcing a move as making one of your own.

⛵️☎️ May 17 2026 4:52:17 AM No.24355

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>>24354 It's not a forced move though is the thing. It just looks like it is. Leaving it in place is just objectively better. Taking it screws you on the row whereas leaving it complicates things for white and puts black in the driver's seat. I encourage you to load the game into your chess engine of choice and play against the computer and see what you come up with. I did a few times after reasoning through it and was, like i described, immediately thrown into precarious positions from which i couldn't recover, because even though it might technically be something like a mate in 17, I'm just not that good and will blunder my way to a loss. I suppose the puzzle is valuable in that sense even if it is incredibly annoying.

Anonymous May 18 2026 6:02:37 AM No.24382

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White to play
H Schussler vs D de Lange
https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=2710138&m=61

Anonymous May 19 2026 9:19:51 AM No.24421

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White to play
J Fedorowicz vs J Rizzitano
https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1266687&m=22

Anonymous May 25 2026 5:04:32 AM No.24538

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White to play
Nakamura vs Duda
https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1945728&m=37

Anonymous Jun 01 2026 6:21:23 AM No.24658

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White to play
Bachmann vs L Coro
https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=2903287&m=39

Anonymous Jun 15 2026 8:35:12 AM No.24792

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Black to play
H Casagrande vs O Staudner
https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1220022&m=35.5

⛵ Jun 16 2026 2:30:39 AM No.24798

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>>23007
White: d5
Black: bishop d4, check
White rook X bishop

actual game: black resigned after d5

>>23035
It's a forced checkmate in 8, but I missed the white queen h5>h6>h7 move series, which honestly seemed ridiculous when I looked at it, so I went with
rook h3 to start, followed by the knight X g5 sacrifice, and then moved my queen in

actual game: black blundered into checkmate

Anonymous Jun 16 2026 5:05:37 AM No.24802

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White to play
C Lutz vs Lobron
https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=2194213&m=32

⛵ Jun 18 2026 9:03:48 PM No.24838

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>>23231 the second move is very unintuitive.

>>23236 White: mate in 3 via bishop c4

actual game: White initiated a mate in 4 via rook d8
not every day I do better than the 19th century masters...

>>23239 starts as a mate in 11
Black: rook x g3, start of mate in 11
White: f4 x e5, check
Black: rook x rook, mate in 10
White: bishop h6, check
Black: queen x bishop, mate in 9
White: knight d2
Black: queen x knight, mate in 8
and then I went for a queen trade and got off the line, after a -2 to +9 material swing

actual game: White blundered rook X rook on his first move, making a mate in 11 into a mate in 3.

>>23364
Black: rook h5, check
White: bishop x rook
Black: g5, checkmate

actual game: White surrendered after rook h5

>>23392
Black: knight x bishop. theoretical mate in 9
White: queen x rook
Black: queen x queen. mi7
White: pawn x knight
Black: c3. mi6
White: rook c4
Black: queen b3. mi5
White: rook h2
Black: pawn x b2, check. mi4
White: king b1
Black: pawn x rook, queen promotion, check. mi4
White: king x queen
and then chased down the king

actual game: mate in 4 via rook x a3.
I missed the 3rd move and thus didn't choose that line.

⛵ Jun 19 2026 1:37:12 AM No.24869

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>>23528
Black: pawn d3
White: king f1
Black: rook a1, check
and then another dozen moves chasing down the white king

It starts as a mate in 5, but I missed it because I thought queen x rook was too obvious to be the solution since you can take it at any time (and I did, on the following turn).

actual game: white resigned after pawn d3, so I guess my strategy would have worked anyway.

>>23547 this is another one of those: there's one right move and everything else fucks you. and I didn't find the right move.

actual game: it's a mate in 10 but black blundered into a mate in 5.

>>23926 this feels like a trick... like the "puzzle" relies on black blundering to work. let's try it...

White: bishop x f7, check
Black: king x bishop
White: queen c4, check
Black: king e8 (the blunder)
White: queen e6, checkmate

actual game:

White: queen x e4, check
Black: knight x queen (Holy shit I was right. Black blundered the fuck out of it.)
White: bishop f7, checkmate

>>23994 finally one that's unambiguous...
White: queen g7, check
Black: king x knight
White: queen f8, check
Black: king does whatever
White: queen x queen.

actual game: black resigned after queen f8

>>24233 mate in 3
White: rook e7, check
Black: king to rank 8
White: queen to g5 or h6, check
Black: king moves
White: queen g7, checkmate

actual game: black blundered and lost in 2

Anonymous Jun 22 2026 5:32:50 PM No.24976

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Black to play
Z Franco Ocampos vs C Guimard

https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1590769&m=25.5

Anonymous Jun 23 2026 5:13:52 AM No.25001

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White to play
R Hovhannisyan vs A Shuraev
https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1733623&m=20

Anonymous Jun 26 2026 10:22:40 PM No.25063

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Your move.

Anonymous Jun 29 2026 7:16:44 AM No.25112

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White to play
I Madl vs D Summermatter
https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1470676&m=21

Anonymous Aug 01 2026 2:10:06 AM No.25238

Anonymous Aug 03 2026 4:37:24 AM No.25289

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White to play
D Anagnostopoulos vs F T Naes
https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=2283898&m=42

Anonymous Aug 11 2026 6:47:18 AM No.25625

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Black to play
R Bergstrom vs K Bischoff
https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1894764&m=34.5

Anonymous Aug 17 2026 7:25:00 AM No.26013

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White to play
Oll vs A Wojtkiewicz
https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1286333&m=35

Anonymous Aug 18 2026 6:30:25 AM No.26033

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White to play
S Vibbert vs R Goletiani
https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1664462&m=37

Anonymous Aug 25 2026 8:06:08 AM No.26432

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White to play
B Finegold vs R Ciemniak
https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=2581090&m=44

Anonymous Sep 02 2026 3:00:04 AM No.26936

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Black to play
D Malla vs W Kobese

Anonymous Sep 02 2026 3:07:49 AM No.26937

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>>26432
https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1415170&m=30.5
Angled Q sac for the win?

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