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

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

⛵ Dec 15 2025 1:11:06 PM No.20424

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>>20416 I went Qa1+, forcing Kxg2, then Ra2+, and then chasing down the king in various ways. which turned out to be what happened in the actual game, except white resigned after the second check.

Clarity!EGL9GiOd9k Dec 15 2025 10:35:25 PM No.20433

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>>20424
It's what I did as well... didn't think that was actually the solution.

Easy Anonymous Dec 17 2025 6:09:43 AM No.20465

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Black to play
I Ivanov vs E Gausel
https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1061438&m=12.5

⛵ Dec 17 2025 1:37:33 PM No.20483

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>>20465
black: g5 forces the white bishop to retreat, either way it goes isn't really great.
white: bishop retreats.
black: g4 threatens the white knight. if it moves to a spot defended by the white bishop, white loses 2 for 1, else it just loses the knight for a pawn.

and.... looks like in the actual game, white resigned after g5.

Anonymous Dec 22 2025 4:36:34 AM No.20563

>>20483
Sometimes it’s positional; other times is it material advantage ie. sacrificing a pawn to capture a Queen.

Anonymous Dec 22 2025 5:09:51 AM No.20564

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Black to play
K Cottrell vs Lenderman
https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1399013&m=19.5

⛵ Dec 22 2025 1:43:24 PM No.20572

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>>20564 took me a while to get this one...
black rook h1 check. forces white king X rook.
black knight X f2 check. white moves the king then loses the queen.

Anonymous Dec 23 2025 7:52:35 AM No.20576

I can beat anyone at chess

Anonymous Dec 26 2025 8:55:51 PM No.20626

>>20576
Is that a challenge?

Anonymous Jan 03 2026 4:44:42 AM No.20754

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Black to play
Zherebukh vs Shirov
https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=2062849&m=23.5

Anonymous Jan 05 2026 2:32:30 AM No.20798

I love chest….eh…chess

⛵ Jan 06 2026 2:33:42 AM No.20812

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>>20754 I couldn't get that one.

Anonymous Jan 06 2026 3:09:04 AM No.20821

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Black to play
P Acs vs S Cao
https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=2820825&m=33.5

⛵ Jan 06 2026 10:22:58 PM No.20839

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>>20821
black queen X white rook, check
forces white knight X queen
black rook X white knight on f7 threatening white queen
white queen retreats to guard the white knight
black rook X white knight, check w/ queen fork
white queen X black rook
black bishop X white queen
white king X black bishop
black to move, up a bishop, for an easy victory

in the actual game, white resigned after black rook X white knight on f7
unfortunate.

Anonymous Jan 12 2026 3:27:20 AM No.20966

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Black to play
Carlsen vs Dubov
https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=2025547&m=25.5

⛵️☎️ Jan 12 2026 10:34:53 AM No.20973

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>>20966 Black rook X white pawn. After that I'm assuming white resigns...

Yep!

Anonymous Jan 13 2026 7:44:22 AM No.20979

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White to play
S Tatai vs E Paoli
https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1379253&m=24

Anonymous Jan 17 2026 4:02:18 AM No.21048

I prefer poker; hidden info makes it more chaotic and fun.

⛵ Jan 18 2026 4:49:54 AM No.21070

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>>20979
white pawn g6 threatens rook.
black can't move rook because doing so would lead to checkmate, wherever it happens to move. so black bishop f6 protecting the black pawn on g7.
white pawn X black rook on f7
black queen X white pawn on f7
white's now up a rook and black would probably resign....

In the actual game, black pawn X white knight rather than bishop defending the pawn on g2, sort of a throwaway move by black, and then black resigned after check by white.

Anonymous Jan 19 2026 5:59:57 AM No.21095

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White to play
R Toran vs M Valls Tona
https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=2966235&m=29

⛵️☎️ Jan 19 2026 11:11:59 AM No.21110

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>>21095 White rook d8
Whatever black does, white either checkmates with queen on g7 or g8, or simply takes the black queen of it tries to get in the way

In the actual game, white moved the other rook to rank 8, to e8, which has the same effect.

Anonymous Jan 25 2026 11:16:23 PM No.21287

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White to play
H Lehmann vs V Ahmels
https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1413939&m=37

⛵ Jan 26 2026 5:56:34 AM No.21318

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>>21287
white: rook X g6 pawn, check
black: pawn h7 X g6 rook
white: queen X g6 pawn, check
black: king f8
white: queen X h5 rook
black: king e8
white: pawn e5
from here things diverge, but at the very least white has gained +2 material

in the actual game, white rook g1 instead of pawn e5, after which black resigned

checkmate was forcible from the very start in 14 turns or less.
that said, I wouldn't have been able to force the checkmate after this point. there are far too many innocuous-looking possible blunders along the way. pawn e5 was itself a possible blunder, but given the complexity of the position, it's likely that black would have blundered it right back.

Anonymous Jan 26 2026 4:48:59 PM No.21334

>>21318
Some of these puzzles, you win by material advantage instead of checkmate

Anonymous Jan 27 2026 4:00:06 AM No.21347

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Black to play
Robert Zieba vs V Plat
https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1900504&m=26.5

⛵ Jan 27 2026 7:14:25 AM No.21355

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>>21334 What I'm getting at is that the position has a sense of: this can either be a win or go horribly wrong, with little in between. And many of the moves that lead to a horrible ending seem reasonable on the surface. It's not the sort of position that opens up following a successful tactic. If you can't continue pressing, you end up losing regardless.

>>21347 I went
black: queen h4
white: queen g2
black: rook X h2, check
white: queen X rook
black: knight g3, check
white: king g1
black: queen X queen, check
white: king X queen
black: knight X rook, check

This was apparently not the correct sequence.
same sort of deal. what I did gained material, but resulted in a worse position.

Anonymous Jan 28 2026 4:56:53 AM No.21371

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>>21355
Black N forks the rook and king *check*

⛵ Jan 28 2026 12:58:42 PM No.21380

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>>21371 That also wasn't the best move. White misplayed in response to it in the actual game, since white could have brought back its queen to assist and delay the checkmate if the king had moved over instead. It still would have resulted in checkmate but with additional steps.

The correct move is black N to e3 blocks the white queen and leads to imminent checkmate, where all white can do is sacrifice pieces to delay it.

Anonymous Feb 02 2026 3:50:43 AM No.21475

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Black to play
Niemann vs Dubov
https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=2903468&m=30.5

Anonymous Feb 03 2026 4:49:19 AM No.21497

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White to play
Firouzja vs Q L Le
https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1985564&m=32

German thinking music
My 🌵Full Version #shorts

Anonymous Feb 17 2026 3:40:39 AM No.21803

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Chess is a 1v1 game with no RNG. It has only gotten more and more popular over time, primarily due to Chess.com and Lichess making the game more accessible (hint: improved product design). Chess has some structural advantages over fighting games: runs on a phone or as a board game, centuries of cultural inertia, rules that can be learned in 5 minutes. But chess also has no animations, no characters, no spectacle, and (almost) no physicality. This makes Chess.com’s 10 million daily active users a good baseline for the total addressable market of a gladiatorial video game, roughly 10x what fighting games currently have.

Anonymous Feb 17 2026 3:42:13 AM No.21804

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Black to play
M Davis vs A Nikitin
https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=3038327&m=36.5

⛵️☎️ Feb 20 2026 7:41:38 PM No.21850

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>>21475
Black: pawn d3, threatening white rook
White: rook X pawn
Black: bishop X rook
White: pawn b3 (zugzwang move)
Black: queen X pawn c2, check
White: queen X queen
Black: rook X queen, check
White: rook X rook
Black: bishop X rook
White: king X bishop
Black: king X pawn

Black now has a bishop and three passed pawns against 3 white pawns for an easy win.

In the actual game, white resigned after d3.

⛵️☎️ Feb 21 2026 3:39:10 PM No.21866

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>>21497 not a fan. partially because my test board was inaccurate so i was trying to solve a puzzle while down a rook, and then once i fixed it, Firouzja didn't make the best possible move anyway. Lame.

Anonymous Feb 23 2026 5:08:05 AM No.21894

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Black to play
Bologan vs A Suleymenov
https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=2816678&m=40.5

Anonymous Feb 23 2026 9:34:43 AM No.21896

>>21894
If Be1, can't White just take with the Queen and avoid mate?

⛵️☎️ Feb 23 2026 8:36:04 PM No.21899

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>>21896 yes, which makes this another really bizarre "puzzle." Where even if black plays it right, white can force a stalemate pretty easily.

Anonymous Feb 23 2026 10:32:18 PM No.21902

>>21899
Black does have a back rank issue so he needs to be careful
But after the white pawns fall, black is simply better. I dont see a stalemate here, but it could lead to that if W is lucky enough

⛵️☎️ Feb 23 2026 10:43:53 PM No.21903

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>>21902 black can easily take out the f g and h white pawns. The problem is that if black tries to advance or do anything other than perpetual check, white can also advance and force perpetual check at the very least despite the back rank mate no longer being there. And oddly, if black trades queens, white suddenly has the better position despite being down in material due to its passed pawn.

Anonymous Feb 24 2026 7:20:12 AM No.21915

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White to play
G Timoscenko vs V E Kozlov
https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1299417&m=20

⛵️☎️ Feb 24 2026 10:24:40 AM No.21917

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>>21915 White: bishop X h6
Black: g7 X h6 bishop
White: knight f5
Black: queen X knight, to delay mate
White: queen X queen

In the actual game, black doesn't take the knight, white responds accordingly, and black resigns on the following move

Anonymous Feb 24 2026 11:06:08 AM No.21919

>>21915
after Bxh6, black has an interesting in-between move, Nxb3
If White recaptures with axb3, then after gxh6 Nf5, Qe6! is now possible because white's light-squared bishop is off the board. And black is fine, white can't easily make effective attacks.

Instead of axb3, white can go Bxg7!!, threatening mate, and black is in trouble if Kxg7 Nf5+. Either forced to throw away the queen or it's a mate

If black goes f6 instead of taking the bishop, trying to make an escape route for the king, then Qf8+ Kf7 Qh7 Qd8 Re3 and black is barely holding the game together. Good for white, but not an easy line

⛵️☎️ Feb 24 2026 2:10:59 PM No.21923

>>21919 N X b3 just seemed like a distraction. There's no need to capture it. That bishop isn't even really threatening anything since the pawn it targets is sufficiently defended by black. The same applies to the knight, if white does capture it. Taking it back just wastes a turn.

Anonymous Mar 02 2026 3:08:31 AM No.22113

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Black to play
Adams vs Bluebaum
https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=2947985&m=24.5

Anonymous Mar 03 2026 3:54:10 AM No.22141

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White to play
Sindarov vs C Aravindh
https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=2916957&m=34

Mmmmm Mar 09 2026 8:10:55 AM No.22270

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Black to play
M Warmerdam vs A Tabatabaei

https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=2601884&m=40.5

Anonymous Mar 16 2026 4:08:41 AM No.22385

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White to play
Xiong vs Shankland
https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=2070223&m=51

Anonymous Mar 17 2026 5:31:38 AM No.22403

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White to play
Z Sturua vs K Krivolapov
https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1202889&m=18

Anonymous Mar 23 2026 5:17:50 AM No.22534

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Black to play
J Mestel vs G Garcia
https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=2663718&m=35.5

Anonymous Mar 24 2026 4:27:09 AM No.22559

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Black to play
U Kuettner vs L Vogt
https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=2251769&m=35.5

Anonymous Mar 25 2026 9:15:47 PM No.22606

⛵💻 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.

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