Originally posted by chessicleStrange that someone who came within a whisker of drawing with the great Weyerfritz (*) would consider this artificial and easy-to-solve puzzle to be "moderate".
Straightforward variation on Philidor's theme.
(*) Game 6698090 It's illuminating to play through the last twenty or so moves of this one on a tablebase server such as http://www.lokasoft.nl/tbweb.aspx.
14 May 11
Originally posted by Fat Ladyyeah took me all of 1 sec to see the smothered mate
Strange that someone who came within a whisker of drawing with the great Weyerfritz (*) would consider this artificial and easy-to-solve puzzle to be "moderate".
(*) Game 6698090 It's illuminating to play through the last twenty or so moves of this one on a tablebase server such as http://www.lokasoft.nl/tbweb.aspx.