The Great Chess Puzzles Thread

Post your favorite puzzels here. Any level of puzzle is acceptable. I'll start:



White to play and win.

Any level? Do you mean any type? Any stipulation?

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any chess puzzle you want so long as it involves the pieces moving

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Originally posted by Ropespierre
any chess puzzle you want so long as it involves the pieces moving

Originally posted by heinzkat
This is why you should have excluded retros 😠

I don't get the first one. Everyone's posting mythical solutions with people capturing empty squares.

Originally posted by dzirilli
I don't get the first one. Everyone's posting mythical solutions with people capturing empty squares.

Originally posted by dzirilli
I don't get the first one. Everyone's posting mythical solutions with people capturing empty squares.

Originally posted by SwissGambit
Or exclude pansies and whiners. 😛

Originally posted by SwissGambit
[hidden]G.Donati, Springaren 2001[/hidden]
[fen]r1R2Bnk/ppp2ppp/4pR2/2pB4/N1PP4/1PP1KPP1/5PP1/1N6 w - - 0 24[/fen]
Proof Game in 23.0 moves
[position after Black's 23rd move. How did the game go?]

Originally posted by heinzkat
Well, nice puzzle, thank you. Good thing that the thread starter didn't request others to actually solve the problems shown 🙄

I must admit I find it rather unreasonable that you expect me to sit down with a chess board and work out the 500 gazillion positions that could be reached in 23 moves. 😛

I don't really know how to go about solving such a problem.

Here's another one for us mortals:

White to move and win.

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