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  • Doctor PhibesD 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.

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    @Doctor-Phibes 😳 😂

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    • HoraceH 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.

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      @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.

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      I was only joking

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      • Doctor PhibesD Offline
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        #21

        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.

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        I was only joking

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        • MikM Away
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          Mik
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          #22

          White's only move is rook to E1.

          “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

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            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?

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            • KlausK 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?

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              @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

              I was only joking

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                Only non-witches get due process.

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                  Only non-witches get due process.

                  • Cotton Mather, Salem Massachusetts, 1692
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                  • Doctor PhibesD 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

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                    @Doctor-Phibes said in Great move:

                    @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

                    White Queen to F3.
                    Still loses the Queen, but at least taking a black Bishop with it.

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                      You guys might like this book.

                      The problem on one page, the solution on the next x 1,000, simple.

                      Open to any page and figure it out

                      https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07FPBLJL8/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_d_asin_title_351_o02?ie=UTF8&psc=1

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                        Kasparov 1981. Mate in 3 if QxR. White avoids mate if QxN but still loses queen.

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                        Only non-witches get due process.

                        • Cotton Mather, Salem Massachusetts, 1692
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                          White to move. Mate in ?

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                          Only non-witches get due process.

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