Coolest Chess Puzzle You've Seen This Year - Chess and Board Game Strategy

First off let me just say that I am very happy that this Chess forum was created. When my friend first pulled my arm to start the chess thread in OOT, I thought that it would die down after 50 or 60 posts.

Much to my surprise it went nearly 1800 posts and 65,000 views before getting locked because this forum was opened. Bringing the game of chess to so many new people because of that thread is awesome.

Okay guys enjoy this puzzle:

This one is White to play and win.

All I can say is that the solution is very interesting and that this puzzle is probably the coolest chess puzzle you've seen so far this year.

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03-10-2009 , 03:38 AM

YouKnowWho

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Definitely a cool puzzle, though not the coolest I've seen this year. Some of the compositions from solving competitions that were posted on Chessbase were completely insane. Ok, here goes my solution:

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03-10-2009 , 04:13 AM

All-inMcLovin

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Gotta love those spoilers. YouKnowWho you are correct. Good job.

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03-10-2009 , 09:14 AM

PyramidScheme

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this game didnt actually occur did it?

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03-10-2009 , 09:38 AM

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Originally Posted by PyramidScheme

this game didnt actually occur did it?

No, this was a variation that white evaluated and discarded, missing the tactic in this position. He deviated earlier and I think the game was drawn.

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OP - this thread OP is a perfect example of why I called you self-aggrandizing in the chess thread. You don't just post a tactic. You congratulate yourself on starting the OOT thread, take credit for bringing chess to many and are cocky enough to believe that this is the coolest chess tactic other people have seen this year (wtf is with that qualifier?). I'm not posting this just to rag on you. It'd be great if you could consider how your post might come across.

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03-10-2009 , 07:06 PM

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Spoiler:

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03-10-2009 , 07:10 PM

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Originally Posted by spaceman Bryce

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I gave all the lines in my first post!

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03-10-2009 , 07:13 PM

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Originally Posted by YouKnowWho

I gave all the lines in my first post!

Spoiler:

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03-10-2009 , 07:18 PM

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Originally Posted by spaceman Bryce

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03-10-2009 , 07:33 PM

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Originally Posted by RoundTower

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03-10-2009 , 10:05 PM

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Originally Posted by swingdoc

No, this was a variation that white evaluated and discarded, missing the tactic in this position. He deviated earlier and I think the game was drawn.

Spoiler:

I think you take yourself a little too seriously.

I can't be happy that the thread became huge and developed into its own forum? Thanks for policing my happiness.

Coolest Chess Puzzle You've Seen This Year -- is debatable and I just put it cuz it sounds like a fun title. It's probably not true but then again I'm just trying to make it sound fun.

You are posting to rag on me. It'd be great how you should consider ragging on people when they're just trying to contribute.

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03-11-2009 , 11:30 AM

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Neat puzzle, but I got the right move in like 30 seconds so I can't call it the coolest I've seen all year. The coolest would have to be something with beautifully simple logic to it that is still incredibly difficult to solve.

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03-11-2009 , 03:25 PM

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Originally Posted by YouKnowWho

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03-11-2009 , 04:08 PM

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03-11-2009 , 05:19 PM

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btw its true, cmon AllinMclovin, for someone of your level who would beat me like 35% of the time, to think this is anything more than the most simple position ever (took me under 2-3 seconds to solve I think), is insane!

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03-11-2009 , 07:11 PM

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curtains you left out the dash in my name.

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03-11-2009 , 10:01 PM

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curtains you left out the dash in my name.

Damn wish I caught the non-edited version. I'm not sure when I'm going to stop harrassing you, probably soon

Sorry!

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03-11-2009 , 10:18 PM

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Lmao you can harass me, I don't mind.

You were fairly nice to me IRL a few years back.

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03-11-2009 , 10:33 PM

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curtains is All-inMcLovin an egomaniac IRL?

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03-11-2009 , 10:37 PM

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curtains is All-inMcLovin an egomaniac IRL?

no idea who he is.

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03-11-2009 , 11:24 PM

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no idea who he is.

Neither do I.

I say a bunch of things tongue in cheek (i.e. not serious). Don't get the wrong idea. I'm not that good at chess. Most of the time I win, it's by accident.

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03-11-2009 , 11:56 PM

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Originally Posted by All-inMcLovin

Most of the time I win, it's by accident.

yeah me too bro

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03-12-2009 , 09:25 PM

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Most of the time I lose, it's on accident. I must be playing All-in on FICS all the time.

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03-13-2009 , 08:48 PM

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not likely chief.

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03-13-2009 , 09:07 PM

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Chief? lol

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