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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.

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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