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  • H Horace
    26 Nov 2024, 16:22

    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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    Doctor Phibes
    wrote on 26 Nov 2024, 17:35 last edited by
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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 Phibes
      wrote on 27 Nov 2024, 15:04 last edited by
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      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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        Mik
        wrote on 27 Nov 2024, 17:36 last edited by
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        White's only move is rook to E1.

        "The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell." Simone Weil

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          Klaus
          wrote on 27 Nov 2024, 21:08 last edited by
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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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          • K Klaus
            27 Nov 2024, 21:08

            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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            Doctor Phibes
            wrote on 27 Nov 2024, 23:23 last edited by
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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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              jon-nyc
              wrote on 28 Nov 2024, 20:24 last edited by
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                jon-nyc
                wrote on 28 Nov 2024, 21:24 last edited by
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                • D Doctor Phibes
                  27 Nov 2024, 23:23

                  @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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                  Axtremus
                  wrote on 28 Nov 2024, 23:09 last edited by
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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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                    Copper
                    wrote on 29 Nov 2024, 00:58 last edited by
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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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                      jon-nyc
                      wrote on 30 Nov 2024, 02:31 last edited by jon-nyc
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                      Kasparov 1981. Mate in 3 if QxR. White avoids mate if QxN but still loses queen.

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                        jon-nyc
                        wrote on 7 Dec 2024, 03:25 last edited by
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                        White to move. Mate in ?

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