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A few puzzles

Submitted by oginschile on Thu, 09/04/2008 at 2:22am.

I recently finished the Twilight series by Stephenie Meyer. And SURPRISE... my Male superego is still intact.

An excellent series if you get the chance. The movie for the first book "Twilight" is coming out this December I believe. Definitely leans more toward the female Genre (Love story), but with a very interesting twist that A man like me can... sink his teeth into.

I haven't been blogging, I haven't been playing very much, I've been busy reading this damned series of books and being me in general.

So I figure I haven't posted any puzzles for a while... here's a few from my recent games. None to be taken too seriously of course.

Enjoy...

A mate in 4

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Force mate!

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Take advantage.

» posted in oginschile's Blog

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Comments:

by lubo - 14 months ago
Sofia Bulgaria

Member Since: Sep 2007
Member Points: 453

I absolutely agree! 4.Qxc5# (mate) is gaining material... pawn in this case ;)

by oginschile - 14 months ago
Salt Lake City, UT United States

Member Since: Aug 2007
Member Points: 1048

Yes yes, a plethera of mating choices, but for reasons that only a genius like me could understand... Qc5# is clearly superior.

I mean Qa4# just doesn't read as well in pgn format does it now. And Ra4#... lets not even go there. Qc5# is simply the sexiest move available.

by lubo - 14 months ago
Sofia Bulgaria

Member Since: Sep 2007
Member Points: 453

so is 4.Ra4# ;)

by Spinatai - 14 months ago
Vilnius Lithuania

Member Since: Aug 2008
Member Points: 89

Qa4 is also mate for the first puzzle

by Darrin - 14 months ago
United States

Member Since: Sep 2007
Member Points: 291

You read the Twilight Series? heh heh- what a girl- that explains why I can never beat you, I'm always playing against 2 Queens instead of one.

For those of you who want to report me for mental cruelty or can't take a joke, I'm just messin' with Ogie.

by jaronkovich - 14 months ago
qld Australia

Member Since: Aug 2008
Member Points: 397

good ones,Thank you

by shuttlechess92 - 14 months ago
California United States

Member Since: Jul 2008
Member Points: 1849

good, and easy enough to do. thanks!

by batgirl - 14 months ago
NC United States

Member Since: Jun 2007
Member Points: 4313

Nice little puzzles. Thanks.

by oginschile - 14 months ago
Salt Lake City, UT United States

Member Since: Aug 2007
Member Points: 1048

Ah yes, thanks Lubo, correcting me as always... haha. And in the last puzzle 3... Kc8 also allows the game to go on. Me and my analysis.. sheesh.

Thanks for the comments.

by lubo - 14 months ago
Sofia Bulgaria

Member Since: Sep 2007
Member Points: 453

Nice stuff Jay! :)

Where you've been? Nice to see you bloggin'.

Btw, on the second puzzle it's f3 (not g3)

by sankha - 14 months ago
Kolkata India

Member Since: Mar 2008
Member Points: 101

Interesting and entertaining!

by Dozy - 14 months ago
Blue Mountains Australia

Member Since: Aug 2007
Member Points: 2097

Entertaining stuff. As always, they're a lot easier to see when you know they're there than to find in play. Well done...

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