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Endgame Puzzle: August 27, 2009
"If you like the puzzles . . . track me :-)."
These are not your typical endgame puzzles
Can you name this great endgame player?
Hint: Israel's Highest Ranked GM. Eight highest ranked chess player in the world.
Quote: "My opinion is probably too radical, but I have no illusion about the complete incompetence of FIDE and its unwillingness to work"
*Disclaimer - Some of the problems have multiple solutions. However, I will give the solution that I feel is an easier pattern to recognize or better technique. Further, depending on the level of difficulty, sometimes I will not give the optimal response to try to imitate human play. If you click the move list and solution, sometimes I will insert alternate moves and explanations (check and see). I welcome discussion and feel free to ask or answer a person's question on the message boards! I would highly recommend to practice the problems at a board too! Unfortunately, all of the puzzles before july 13, 2009 were deleted by chess.com. I believe some forum topics expire at some point. I started the blog july 13, 2009 and you can check out older problems through the links below.*
Hope you enjoy!
Pete
Level: Easy
"Trebuchet"
Level: Intermediate
"Pawns"
The Man Himself
Musical Dedication: Sex Pistols - God Save the Queen
Play Like Him
The Whole Game
JULY
August
To dragondella's humble "please explain", I should say that "I hate these things, I am no good at them, and I want to die incompetent". However, the idea is that bishop pawns on the 7th tend to draw, (depending on location of kings etc) as the "loser" can force a stalemate. Such prevents white from whacking the h first.
A good link for experimenting is:
http://www.k4it.de/index.php?topic=egtb&lang=en
Will attempt to demo in following post
edit: note "following post"s are above, not below, on blogs.
For puzzle #2, 1. a6 also wins easily: (a) 1...b6 2. cxb6 axb6 3. a7; (b) 1...bxa6 2. bxa6 (2. b6 works as well) Kc8 3. Kc6 Kb8 4. Kd7 Ka8 5. c6 Kb8 6. c7+; (c) 1...Kc8 2. axb7+ Kxb7 3. Kd7.
Also, I have to agree the Q vs 2P ending is flawed. There are a ton of ways to win this. Now, that's not to say there aren't also a ton of ways to blow it. On move 3, for example, innocent little moves like 3. Qxh5?, 3. Qh4?, 3. Qe4?, and 3. Qd1+? throw away the win.
thats gelfand
nice work political music
can someone explain the queen vs two pawns puzzle? thanks
avneet said
"boris Gelfand's pic"
Tell me about it. It looks like he is trying really hard to take a crap.
God the interview mexico! mexico mexic, God! I mean Mexico what the hell is plain about Mexico!
Geeze, the guy in the Gelfand interview asked some awfully dumb questions. "Hey Boris, soo like, what just happened? O.K. Soo like, how did you feel about that?" ha. I could rock that job twice over.
Excellent work politicalmusic. I am new to tracking you but I simply love the material you post.
god save the queen! yeah!!
good puzzles
Testing Testing Testing
Q vs 2p puzzle isn't good. There are so many ways to win, I gave up finding the optimal solution although I could win it in my sleep.
lol
This is a thing i saw
Note no.24 it says by lycan148,woo hoo,i made that puzzlle!
(maybe you should add an extra solved
boris Gelfand's pic
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