White to play and mate in 4 moves.
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What is white’s best move?
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What is white’s best move?
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White to play and mate in three moves (two correct move orders.)
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What is black’s best move?
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White to move and mate in two.
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Black to move and mate in 4
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Sometimes a draw feels better than a win!
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“Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response.” – Amos Bronson Alcott After much deliberation, I chose Bxd5! After which, my opponent’s rook gobbled up my queen.
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If you look at checks, captures and threats, this should be a piece of cake.
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The solution to this puzzle is a simple but useful concept.
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Target practice!
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Shakespeare once wrote that, “All that glisters is not gold.” Here, white has just played a tempting fork that looks quite profitable at first glance. Does white’s fork really win material?
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Tonight I started a combination with intuition and finished it with victory. But, as Mark Zuckerberg said, “In a world that’s changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.” Good advice for chess and life.
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Tonight we see a classic example of the King’s Gambit gone wrong via a common blunder by white in the Falkbeer Counter-Gambit. [Event “SocialChess”] [Site “Internet”] [Date “2016.05.10”] [White “@o@ (1507)”] [Black “Chris Torres”] [Result “0-1”] 1.e4 e5 2.f4 d5 3.fxe5 Qh4+ 4.Ke2 Qxe4+ 5.Kf2 Bc5+ 6.Kg3 Qxe5+ 7.Kf3 Qf5+ 8.Ke2 Qe4# 0-1 *