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kingdawar 09-Jun-11, 06:48 » Report abuse |
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Lucky?My thoughts progressed as follows 1. The king is currently stalemated. I looked for ways to check. 2. The h4 rook is not doing much, but can check in 2 moves. 3. Black can queen the b-pawn. also providing luft for the king. 4. The a5 knight can go to c5 then a4 giving check and covering b2. 5. If Nc5 immediately, black can defend a4 with the bishop (1...d6). 6. So then I looked at blocking the b-pawn. Of the 3 choices, only the bishop block seemed reasonable since it maintains the stalemate and the rook and knight move do not. 7. The bishop block move also provides 2 ways to mate using the h4 rook. 8. I could find no defense against the rook mate threats that also stopped the knight mate threats. I confess, I did not look at every possible black first move choices. 9. So Bb1 must be the first move. 10. After black's response (in my case, the computer played Bf7) 2.Nc5-Na4 was obvious. 11. After solving and clicking on "OK", then clicking on "|<" I went through all the black defense options and saw that there were many different defenses that require different second moves by white that I had not analyzed before selecting 1.Bb1 as my solution. So as it turns out I did get lucky. |
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macheide 17-Jan-16, 14:12 » Report abuse |
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no_preguntes 29-May-22, 08:31 » Report abuse |
since when chess is a matter of luck?I think skills make the beauty of chess. I think, for example,that patience is one of the skills some people have to achieve a better ELO. And I believe that the will to develop them also it is ... But, opinions are like the nose: everyone has one Of course: nice puzzle. Thanks |
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luckIn this puzzle, I did not evaluate all the defensive tries. I was lucky in the sense that my first move was the correct solution. There is luck, so to speak, in chess as it is in life. I recently finished a game where I won the game. But In analyzing the game afterward, there were tow times where I had blundered and would have lost if my opponent had seen the correct response to my bad moves. Luck, as I define it, is not some outside force that drives a good outcome (or bad in the case of bad luck). It is just an element of chance that goes your way even when the odds are against you. |
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