Magnificent Puzzles (7)

Submitted by Phobetor on Fri, 01/30/2009 at 6:28am.

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.

We have come to puzzle number 7 now. This one is composed by A.P. Gulayev and was published in 1940. The position after white's 5th move is just incredible! But you have to solve it first to see it :) White to play and win - Good luck!

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Comments:

by apocalypse74 - 8 months ago
Israel
Member Since: Aug 2008
Member Points: 70

i love thows pazels..

by kerver73 - 8 months ago
Thessaloniki Greece
Member Since: Feb 2009
Member Points: 1133

Yeah,it's truly the best puzzle i have ever seen!

Well done, Gulayev!

by nqi - 9 months ago
Southland New Zealand
Member Since: Jul 2008
Member Points: 445

These puzzles are amazing, thank you!

by lubo - 9 months ago
Sofia Bulgaria
Member Since: Sep 2007
Member Points: 453

very nice! I wasn't even close

by santiR - 9 months ago
outside Washington D.C. United States
Member Since: Apr 2008
Member Points: 1004

that's gotta be one of the best puzzles i have ever seen.

by SabreKarte - 9 months ago
United States
Member Since: Jan 2009
Member Points: 7

Great puzzle, I have seen this before

 

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