I have been reading (and getting PM's ) about the the blog being unreadable
and the PGN's not working on older 'not so smart' phones and laptops.
I try to cater for my weakest reader in blogs so in future I will do an alternative
blog with a no gimmicks option (no pictures, cartoons etc.) and post it as a
normal post in the forum as well as a normal blog (I enjoy doing the cartoons and
the pictures cheer up the page but if it is causing problems then I'll do both.)
The alternative blog, will look like this. (see below) It is very easy
to do, all I have to day is chop up the original.
I'll resurrect some old blogs from 10-15 years ago in this format, there is some
good stuff there. (I bet those who I made suffer all those years ago are now cursing me.)
It is that time of year when once again we feast on merriment.
***Puzzles***
What famous chess player had to cycle to a chess
tournament so he would not lose on a time forfeit.
Answer Q.1
What famous chess player got in trouble for wearing a pair of jeans.
Answer Q.2
What famous chess player had their unbeaten streak
of 124 games broken on the 10th of October 2020
Russ; "Greenpawn are the answer to all the questions 'Magnus Carlsen?'
...er...let me check...
Answer Q.3
Answer Q.4
Answer Q.5
Yes!
Russ; "You are a dipstick Greenpawn, do something else."
***Puzzles (part 2) ***
Where we see a White pawn sliding along the 7th rank.
White to play and deliver checkmate in two moves.
White to play and deliver checkmate in two moves.
White to play and deliver checkmate in two moves.
White to play and deliver checkmate in two moves.
Finally try this one. White to play and win.
Clue Moonwalk
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***Caruana's Pencil***
As is well known Fabiano Caruana takes a packet of new pencils
with him every time he enters a chess tournament. If he does not
win the game, then he leaves the pencil behind next to the chess board.
However if he wins, he keeps that pencil until that pencil runs out of luck.
I went down to London to see the 2018 Carlsen - Caruana match.
The match was drawn 12 - 12 (12 pencils) and Carlsen won the tie break.
After game 4 and when the players had left the arena I noticed Caruana s
pencil still at the side of the board, nobody was looking so I pinched it.
I then ran across the road to Ladbrokes and using the pencil I wrote out
a bet. $4.00 on dog number 4 in the 4th race at 4 o clock....
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In the puzzles section we saw a pawn on the 7th rank under promoting to a Knight.
In RHP and OTB games it is very rare to see a Knight promotion as the only move.
But I have found a good RHP example. Playagainstme - kenny campbell RHP 2014.
A Black under promotion dragonslayer - bowizard RHP 2018
White did not play 1.Qc3 mating in a few moves.
1.Kxa3 b1=N+ followed by 2...Nxd2 a draw.
j2nx - zorro2008 RHP 2008