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The Hunt for a 1990 Chess Magazine

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Having a massive clear out of junk after looking for one chess magazine.

A puzzle with a chess theme which I found whilst hunting for the magazine.

Also found an old pamphlet sent to me by Fat Lady which I used in a old blog.
I looked back at the 2011 blog and thought I’d redo it with some 2019 games.

In the lost/found magazine was a Sam Loyd puzzle (White to play and mate in 3)


The catch being someone who could not find the solution thought the diagram
was wrong and so swapped over the Kings. It turns out there is also a mate in 3


White to play and mate in 3.

A game where I get to play a sacrifice that has been seen more than 7,500+ times
on Red Hot Pawn. Results from both White and Black indicate chances are even.

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Thank you again for your constant Blogging which I enjoy regularly.

I had found a mate in four:

1.Kc2 Kf1
2.Ne4 Kg2
3.Qf2+ Kh3
4.Qg3#

was quite proud and only the realized that three moves were wanted 🙁

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It would be good if the White moves after the Kings were swapped were exactly the same.

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@greenpawn34

I mean, I love an active king.... and I've succeeeded in having my king himself keep the fort against a player 300-ish points higher than myself twice now... but those kings in your Petrov lines - nah, that's a bit too active even for me.

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@greenpawn34

Also, in the Loyd (ouch, should be Lloyd, Merkins are weiurd) mate, black can also play Kd1 or Ke1. The end result is exactly the same, though, which Sam probably considered a plus. Not sure he wouldn't have been right, either.

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Hi Shallow-Blue.

It is Loyd, not Lloyd, a common slip which I made a few times in the past.

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@greenpawn34 said
Hi Shallow-Blue.

It is Loyd, not Lloyd, a common slip which I made a few times in the past.
Yes, I know he spelt his name wrong. But the name really has to be Lloyd, not Loyd, no matter what illiterate colonials may think. It's also spelt Denise, not Deniece; and Nienhuis, not Neenhuse.

In other words, calling Sam Loyd Sam Loyd is not the (your) error. The (his or his ancestors' ) error is that Sam Loyd was called Sam *Loyd in the first place, rather than Sam Lloyd.

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Hi Shallow-Blue
I see your point now, it could have been one of the forerunners for the
trend of misspelling a common name in an effort to make it unique.

Carly: Carlee, Carleigh, Carley, Carlie, Karlee, Karlie....

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@greenpawn34 said
I see your point now, it could have been one of the forerunners for the
trend of misspelling a common name in an effort to make it unique.

Carly: Carlee, Carleigh, Carley, Carlie, Karlee, Karlie....
Yup. One shudders to think how something properly Germanic like Godfried would be misspelt...

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@shallow-blue said
Yes, I know he spelt his name wrong. But the name really has to be Lloyd, not Loyd, no matter what illiterate colonials may think.
lol

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