Daily Chess Puzzles

[Leo Gura]

3 hours ago, integral said:

Puzzle 10: The Quiet move

The counter intuitive moves in chess are the quiet moves

So quiet that we don't even know whose turn it is and which side we are playing.

[LambdaDelta]

24 minutes ago, integral said:

I can make a meta chess site for us to play with.

I just need help figuring out the game play.

There's an idea 

https://www.infinitechess.org/

https://mchess.io/

[integral]

 

[integral]

30 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

So quiet that we don't even know whose turn it is and which side we are playing.

lmao 

Black to move and win. 

[Jannes]

4 hours ago, integral said:

Puzzle 10: The Quiet move

Black to move and win. 

The counter intuitive moves in chess are the quiet moves, this is were chess really shines. Its the beginner that believes sacrificing the queen is counter intuitive, the problem with it is sacrifices are forceful and forceful moves are the first thing everyone learns to calculate.

Its the quiet moves that take time to learn and master and are the heart of chess. 

The Hand of God are the quiet moves.

The numbers and letters are missing as well. 

Black: Very left pawn h2 checking the King.

White: King to h1 going out of check and blocking the Pawn. 

Black: Pawn to e4, blocking the diagonal to the white King for the white Queen and threatening checkmate with Black Queen on f3 the following turn. White needs to trade Queen for Rook and looses off that. 

Edited Sunday at 02:11 AM by Jannes

[AtmanIsBrahman]

Tricky puzzle.
The main line I calculated is e4 f3 Qg5 g4 Qd2 (Qe3+ might also work, couldn’t find a difference) Qxe4+ Kh6 g6. White is out of checks and back will get mated

[integral]

Puzzle 11

Black to Play and win.

Warning this is not strictly a puzzle. This is a famous game between (white) Mikhail Botvinnik vs (black) Mikhail Tal

See if you can play like Tal, black to play. 

[LambdaDelta]

I don't know... The only certainty is that we need to break the structure at center-left, there's nothing to do on the right side. Either push pawn to e4 attacking the knight with bishop and opening up the diagonal for potential future check. Or sac the knight at f4 to force king's g3 pawn to take & move; that seems like something Tal would do. Or perhaps the right move is completely different, like moving a piece back to set up some crazy positional play. In any case there's a long way to go whatever is chosen, probably 15 more moves at least. That's why I'm no good in real games, can't see that far ahead. Wanted to check the actual game, but there's a playlist of like 20 matches between them, ain't got time to sift through all that.

I like that there's no more square labeling and the board is flipped, forces the brain to adapt and learn. Chess notation is its own language, similar to musical notes. It's always impressive when GMs play out entire games in their mind simply through that, or how composers hear the music from a sheet. Amazing visualization/abstraction abilities, goes to show how poor we are at it; gotta train this faculty of mind much more. 

[LastThursday]

With my lowly 1000 rated brain, white does have a pawn fork on the next move, probably worth moving either the Knight or Bishop to avoid. So move the black Knight backwards (f6). White does whatever. Then black Bishop e4 and it's well protected. Then exchange frenzy.

My only other plan would be to weaken white's pawns covering their King, by saccing first the Knight (to avoid fork) and then the Bishop. I don't know where to go from there though.