The chess topic! (with problem to resolve! and game to play!)

[isatis]

face it every forum need one!

(just in case, please tell me atleast one guy play chess at a decent level)

so here's one problem I found interesting, a easy one but still funny:

white play and mate in two (no mate in three, that's the problem)
sam loyd 1889

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enjoy.

I also want to play some correspondence chess, if interested: post here or pm me.

[Anal Bleeding]

move queen to the right put king in check.
black king has to move right.
then move rook down to put king in checkmate.

[Paul]

No, it's

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bishop to f8. If then Black's bishop takes b2, move white bishop from f8 to h6. Checkmate. If he moves his black king from c1 to b2 instead to kill the then exposed white tower, move white queen from a3 to a2. Checkmate. Instead Black could try moving his knight from e1 to c2 to threaten a1 and keep it queen-free, but then white queen could wipe the knight from c2 and checkmate too. Any other Black move and White can go for standard queen&tower KO.

[SixThumbs]

Move the rook on the left down and the bishop on the left diagonally up and right.

[Anal Bleeding]

yes i see my mistake.
i guess there are a few solutions?

[isatis]

no other solution than Paul one.

(I don't know why I knew paul was a chess player)

move queen to the right put king in check.
black king has to move right.
then move rook down to put king in checkmate.

problem is it's mate in more move than 2, black put piece to death destroying your dream of mate in two

Move the rook on the left down and the bishop on the left diagonally up and right.

black put his bishop in between your and his king (Bg7-c3) and you mate in three with Qd1#

also, please put your response into spoiler so we can keep drama about it.

ps: if you could use algebraic notation so I can understand a bit.

pps what is algebraic notation:

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K-king
Q-queen
R-rook
B-bishop
N-knight
 - pawn
you put the sign of piece + case of start and final case. if capture put an x if check put an + if checkmate put an # other sign such as ! or ? can be use to express the quality of move.

ex:  a game
the famous Legal's mate
starting:
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1. e2-e4(pawn from e2 to e4)  1... e7-e5
2. Bc4 (Bishop to c4, not obligated to put Bf1-Bc4)   2... d4
3. Ng1-f3      3... Bc8-g4 ?!(express somewhat imprecise move)
4.Nb1-c3       4... g6 ? (really black should start developing)
5. Nxe5!!(beautiful! queen sacrifice or a pawn up + good position if black take knigth)   5... BxQe1 ?? (oups queen seem too good now, but after...)
6.Bxf7+  6... Ke7
7. Nd5# (checkmate and one of the most know finish of chess)

here's a diagram to see what happen

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[isatis]

another problem, classic but this is THE problem that helped me in finale so go on !

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white move and win

(please put complete sequence until queening.)

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bishop move

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bishop move is strange and followed by king move

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blocade!

[Anal Bleeding]

how many moves does it take

[isatis]

you will queen, against the best play, in 9 move (10 white and 9 black)
objectively you could queen in 10, but that's not best play in human point of view.

move count doesn't really manner as there is only one possible way to win if black play well.
i'll show the winning sequence tomorrow. 

[Paul]

Without going further into detail I'd say I would put the white bishop on A7, offering the piece to the black bishop. It seems to be a sacrifice without gain at first but it also kinda forces the black pawn to stay put, blocking black bishops field of action and so Black can't threaten white pawn's conversion field H8 easily.

[isatis]

Without going further into detail I'd say I would put the white bishop on A7, offering the piece to the black bishop. It seems to be a sacrifice without gain at first but it also kinda forces the black pawn to stay put, blocking black bishops field of action and so Black can't threaten white pawn's conversion field H8 easily.

what if black play correctly and just don,t take your bishop playing Ba1 instead?

(go Paul go! you got first move!)

[Paul]

Well, white bishop is still suicidal, so Bd4. Then Black would either take the white bishop with his pawn or his own bishop, with the first option being more clever. Anyway I don't think he can prevent the white pawn from converting after that because the white king can block the way of Black's pawn conversion while black king can't catch up with the white pawn.

[isatis]

got it

Paul again!

(I think crpg don't have alot of chessplayer)

humm gonna think about more difficult one for you paul...

[isatis]

polka mania!

yet another problem!

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in four move black win!

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no, first move is not Ne2+

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rook move is first move

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you finish with the quality up

enjoy! (and I hope someone else than paul will got this one!)

 

[Anal Bleeding]

first move rook e4?