Great move

[jon-nyc]

This wasn’t obvious to me at all at first. But it’s mate in 2 or 3.

[taiwan_girl]

Hmmm,

Black castle takes white queen

Ahhh, then white horse moves to F7, correct?

[Horace]

I am sure there are millions of chess positions that have non-obvious best moves. I'm not sure we need to make threads about them, but I don't judge. I never judge.

[Doctor Phibes]

@taiwan_girl said in Great move:

Hmmm,

Black castle takes white queen

Ahhh, then white horse moves to F7, correct?

Also, King takes Queen, Bxh7 check, K-h8, N-g6 checkmate, which is very nice.

[Doctor Phibes]

@Horace said in Great move:

I am sure there are millions of chess positions that have non-obvious best moves. I'm not sure we need to make threads about them, but I don't judge. I never judge.

They're all non-obvious if you're shit at chess.

[Aqua Letifer]

@Horace said in Great move:

I am sure there are millions of chess positions that have non-obvious best moves. I'm not sure we need to make threads about them, but I don't judge. I never judge.

As opposed to what? What's better*?

*that we're capable of.

[Horace]

@Aqua-Letifer said in Great move:

@Horace said in Great move:

I am sure there are millions of chess positions that have non-obvious best moves. I'm not sure we need to make threads about them, but I don't judge. I never judge.

As opposed to what? What's better*?

*that we're capable of.

Gratuitous posts about how fascinating a chess position is, might serve certain purposes other than to have interesting conversation about how fascinating a chess position is. But I don't judge. I like threads that are unambiguously about having interesting conversations, or at least the potential for them.

[taiwan_girl]

@Doctor-Phibes said in Great move:

They're all non-obvious if you're shit at chess.

Thats me!!!

I have the Magnus Carlson app on my phone and one of the options is to play against him at various ages.

I think he beats me when he turns 7 years old. LOL

[Horace]

I bought a bobby fisher biography many decades ago and it had a bunch of his games in an appendix. I would play them out on a chess board, to see genius in action. But I wasn't good enough at chess to appreciate any of the genius.

[Doctor Phibes]

@taiwan_girl said in Great move:

@Doctor-Phibes said in Great move:

They're all non-obvious if you're shit at chess.

Thats me!!!

I have the Magnus Carlson app on my phone and one of the options is to play against him at various ages.

I think he beats me when he turns 7 years old. LOL

In my twenties, I used to play for my town's chess club and read books about it and everything, and I regularly got beat by a kid who was about 10 years old. Of course, he didn't look so clever when I punched him in the face.

[jon-nyc]

@taiwan_girl said in Great move:

I have the Magnus Carlson app on my phone and one of the options is to play against him at various ages.

I think he beats me when he turns 7 years old. LOL

I doubt anyone here would make it past 9 or 10. He was a grandmaster at 13.

[jon-nyc]

I think this site is racist. White is always beating black.

[taiwan_girl]

@Doctor-Phibes

[Doctor Phibes]

@Horace said in Great move:

I bought a bobby fisher biography many decades ago and it had a bunch of his games in an appendix. I would play them out on a chess board, to see genius in action. But I wasn't good enough at chess to appreciate any of the genius.

[Doctor Phibes]

OK, one last position for anybody who's interested, since I thought this was wonderful, and very unusual. White can take the Queen with check, but he gets mated.

[Mik]

White's only move is rook to E1.

[Klaus]

Rook to E1 wouldn't help. After ..RE8 and RE2 and then RxE2 the situation would be worse than before.

D3 might be a move, no?

[Doctor Phibes]

@Klaus said in Great move:

Rook to E1 wouldn't help. After ..RE8 and RE2 and then RxE2 the situation would be worse than before.

D3 might be a move, no?

D3 just loses the Queen, and in compensation white has a totally lost position

[jon-nyc]

[jon-nyc]