The Box of Chocolates Thread (You never know what you're going to get!)
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So, I knew that Adidas was founded by a guy called Adi Dassler (although I didn't know that "Adi" was short for "Adolf"), but TIL that his brother Rudolf founded a competing company called "Ruda", which was soon re-branded to "Puma". I guess the whole family was pretty good at making shoes.
Interesting. And here I had always just assumed it was a one-olf situation. (ba dum tiss)
So, I knew that Adidas was founded by a guy called Adi Dassler (although I didn't know that "Adi" was short for "Adolf"), but TIL that his brother Rudolf founded a competing company called "Ruda", which was soon re-branded to "Puma". I guess the whole family was pretty good at making shoes.
Don't forget that both of them were Nazis and hated each other.
Adolph Coors
Wow, this was a good one.
White to move and win.
Which in this case, I believe is 8.
Edit: No, that's not right, either. I keep having to up it, LOL.
No, I see that now. I had it at 8, but that's stalemate. Not as simple as it first appeared. 😊
No, I see that now. I had it at 8, but that's stalemate. Not as simple as it first appeared. 😊
It's a good one. I posted it elsewhere and someone responded to say that the engine thinks it's a draw. No cheap tricks, there is definitely a forced mate here.
Hint: once you figure out the theme, the exact number of moves is not hugely relevant here.
It's getting out of that loop without a stalemate I can't find in my head. I look forward to trying this on an actual board when I get back in a bit.
A winning position is easy to find; getting there is the tricky part. :p
I found in three moves, black surrenders. Post?
edit.... er, maybe not
edit.... maybe I was correct. I think three moves until surrender
Is the theme
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to rotate the N between c2 and a3, using the spare move to get the K into the action along the b file and deliver mate somehow?
But without a board I can't see it all.
Is the theme
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to rotate the N between c2 and a3, using the spare move to get the K into the action along the b file and deliver mate somehow?
But without a board I can't see it all.
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You are kind of on the right track, but there is no "spare move" in your proposal (unless I am misunderstanding it). You need to find a way to generate some spare moves.
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The obvious bit plus get the king in front of the bishop so black can move his knight as the king advnaces
sorry i have now . You'll have to edit your reply
That's very clever.
This is how I solved it
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I played around with it on chess dot com and without asking it to it showed me the solution
chezlaw confirmed super- genius level, probably why no one can ever understand anything he writes and why his spelling is so bad.
