Magnificent Puzzles (10)

Submitted by Phobetor on Mon, 02/02/2009 at 12:24pm.

There are many places where you can find simple tactical puzzles (for example Chess.com's Tactics Trainer or Daily Puzzle) or more complicated puzzles with highly unlikely positions, where the key move is a totally unexpected move. There are only few places however where you'll find puzzles which are complicated but yet simple. Puzzles with few pieces on the board, but with a very elegant solution. In the Magnificent Puzzles I'll try to entertain you with such puzzles.

Below is the 10th puzzle, composed by A. Stavritzky, in 1990. This time you don't have to come up with the stalemate trap, but you have to avoid it! It's white to play and win! Good luck!

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Comments:

by GeoffreyBernardo - 9 months ago
Pretoria South Africa
Member Since: Aug 2008
Member Points: 145

a thing of beauty is a joy forever.

by lubo - 9 months ago
Sofia Bulgaria
Member Since: Sep 2007
Member Points: 458

I like your puzzles! Thank you very much!

by dimitriosg2002 - 9 months ago
Kalamata Greece
Member Since: Dec 2007
Member Points: 202

Not so difficult to understand but btw it's really a great puzzle! :)

I really appreciate it.

 

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