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I’m an idiot, but why doesn’t the black rook at F7 take the white knight at E7? I don’t see where that move leaves black vulnerable?
@LuFins-Dad said in Great move:
I’m an idiot, but why doesn’t the black rook at F7 take the white knight at E7? I don’t see where that move leaves black vulnerable?
RxE7 is forced. Then white moves his rook to D8. That forces KxD8. Then white rook goes to B8 which is check and mate.
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Hmmm,
Black castle takes white queen
Ahhh, then white horse moves to F7, correct?
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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.
Education is extremely important.
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Hmmm,
Black castle takes white queen
Ahhh, then white horse moves to F7, correct?
@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.
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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.
@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.
I was only joking
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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.
@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.
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@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.
@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.
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@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.
@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
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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.
Education is extremely important.
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@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
@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.
I was only joking
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@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
@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.
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@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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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.
@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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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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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?
@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
