two VERY hard puzzles

if you used fritz, please don't post or else you will ruin the beauty of it...

first one:

find white's bestest move

second one:

white to move and draw

Originally posted by Von Bardeleben
if you used fritz, please don't post or else you will ruin the beauty of it...

first one:
[fen]2kr4/K1pp4/P2Q4/3R4/8/8/8/8 w - - 0 1[/fen]
find white's bestest move

this is the correct one

Originally posted by Von Bardeleben
second one:
[fen]8/8/8/8/p7/5P1k/8/K7 w 0 1[/fen]
white to move and draw

Easy: play any legal move.

Originally posted by Von Bardeleben
[fen]2kr4/K1pp4/P2QR3/8/8/8/8/8 w - - 0 1[/fen]
this is the correct one

qe7

Originally posted by Von Bardeleben
[fen]2kr4/K1pp4/P2QR3/8/8/8/8/8 w - - 0 1[/fen]
this is the correct one

1.Re4(e3, e2, e1) R~ 2.Qb4 d6 3.Qb8+ wins the Rook.

2. Rook to the c file wins by force

Dear Von B,

Get lost and stop cross-posting your crappy puzzles.

Originally posted by XanthosNZ
Dear Von B,

Get lost and stop cross-posting your crappy puzzles.

Dear XanthosNZ, turn your hate into a sword and shove it up ur @ss

Originally posted by BigDoggProblem
Easy: play any legal move.

the board is reversed

Originally posted by Von Bardeleben
the board is reversed

Kg7-f6-e5 draw

Originally posted by Von Bardeleben
the board is reversed

well maybe you should have mentioned it. how the hell could we know that you go reverse those poor boards...

Originally posted by Von Bardeleben
the board is reversed

Then you should have made another post with the correct board.

Originally posted by hakaman
qe7

Sorry don't know chess notation, but pulling the rook back a few squares, letting the queen be taken and then moving the rook over onto the king's file looks like mate to me.

edit: or is white coming down the board?
edit2: if white is going down the rook up one square- black has to move his rook then queen takes pawn- mate

nice puzzle, stumped on the other one- haven't really done puzzles before, except in games!

Originally posted by Von Bardeleben
if you used fritz, please don't post or else you will ruin the beauty of it...

first one:
[fen]2kr4/K1pp4/P2Q4/3R4/8/8/8/8 w - - 0 1[/fen]
find white's bestest move

smells to me like R-c5 is pretty nasty. But just Qxd7+ wins as well,
RXQ, RXR, KXR, Wh K-b7, how does black stop the pawn from Queening?
Oops, didn't see that was an incorrect position.