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Originally Posted by MarkD
mangler - did you see that without ever moving the pieces? That is pretty deep... what is your rating?
I can't believe how strong you guys are, it's very impressive.
I don't have a chessboard, so without moving the pieces, but that's not very impressive when just about any IM/GM can too.
It's actually not that deep since the main ideas ought to be found in the line: 1. fxg6+ Qxg6 2. Bc2 ( seems like an obvious candidate ) Rxf4+! 3. Kg1 Rf6!. I also mentioned that it took awhile;
~ two hours, so that's not exactly something to "write home about!". For me, the difficulty was finding Qg5 ( which isn't hard in retrospect since ...Kxh6 is a threat ).
I'm not even a titled player, but in my younger days ( more than a decade ago ) I did have a peak blitz rating on ICC between 2600 and 2700. I've obviously lost some ability, but having looked at thousands of endgame studies ( went through a lot of Kasparyan's studies ) helps.
RoundTower was close to finding the solution and IIRC, he is not a titled player either. I suppose that someone who is ~2000+ should have some reasonable chance of finding the solution in less time than 2 hours.
Last edited by mangler241; 02-12-2014 at 08:23 PM.