From my facebook feed. I managed to solve both of these, but they took FAR longer than I think they should have. Mate in 2 should be easy, I think, if you are sure mate in 2 can be assured, even if it is something you would never find if you didn’t know it existed.
But my question for all of you is: is there something I can click on in these puzzles to see the solution, if I can’t find it for myself? (I was already in the process of posting the first one here, asking for the solution, when I found the solution). URL below is a link to the reel on facebook, I believe.
This is a good plugin to your phone or browser if you want to go that route https://chessvision.ai/
The more manual route is to go to lichess.org, click on board editor and input the pieces, then click analyze.
answer to the first
And the second
i just read the arguments and figure out which i agree with
Decent puzzles. Found both fairly quickly. But the first was a similar, there’s no way there is a mate in two here, and would not have found it if I didn’t know that. Also wouldn’t have needed to find it in an actual game.
As others have said, if I give up, I’ll read the comments and verify myself.
Consider that the Rook is currently blocked by a pawn that could be promoted.
got it
was thinking there were 3 possible moves to avoid a Stalemate
missed 5 other possible moves
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in addition to moving the rook, anywhere
OK, now really stuck on today’s. Here is how the puzzle appeared on Facebook:
Here I have input the board into Lichess.org
But I don’t see any “Analyze” button to click. Am I doing something wrong in Lichess?
I watch a lot of chess videos, even though I stink at the game.
But a hint for many many chess puzzles is to figure out when, where, and why a Queen sac is the best move.
I like these chess youtubers:
I like the NY guy that goes by Gotham Chess. He’s high energy and just funny to watch.
The Botez sisters are cute, but I find them conceited and annoying.
A guy called King’s Bishop has good puzzles-of-the-day.
I like Anna Cramling. She’s kinda adorable.
But there’s an Indian guy called Sadistic Tushi that is hysterical with all his own made-up jargon for pieces and moves… “Hop out the pony, bring in the juicer, chase the chicken, give him the candy, sac the fatty queen, and smother the chicken!”
It appears the website is slightly different than the app, but the grayed out x on the right, that says SF 16 NNUE is the engine. Click on that to turn it on for the answer.
The other thing though- this puzzle has the board upside down even though its whites move, so you’d have to flip the coordinates
I don’t necessarily understand. What do you mean “upside down”? Perhaps that’s why I can’t find the solution on my own. Consider the white pawn in H3 of the diagram (the original diagram, not the Lichess one). If I wanted to move that pawn, could I move it to H2 or H4? I was assuming H2 (I think; or maybe not. But in any case if you clarify what the problem is supposed to be I’ll have a better shot at answering it.)
And in Lichess, without changing the diagram, it tells me to move the white king to B2 (in the Lichess labeling). If I wanted to Lichess to tell me black’s response to that (mainly for curiosity about how Lichess works, since the board is wrong), what would I do?
White starts on the “1” side and black on the “8” side. So indeed, in your problem, white is moving down. This is (likely) the reason you can’t find the solution.
Summary
There are 5 (I think) ways you can put the king in check and also restrict the remaining open square. One is illegal (currently) and the other four can be captured, but combining two of them will do the trick.
There is 1 move that forces which piece Black must move in response.
The hint here is that KnF7 will result in checkmate
