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  1. e4
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    28 Mar '24 11:09
    The candidates to find a challenger to play Ding Liren in December starts soon.

    There is another chess coincidence in the making. Ding won the world title because
    Carlsen did not want to play in the final. (Ding came 2nd in the 2022 candidates)
    And Abasov is in the candidates because Carlsen did not want to play.
    Carlsen qualified for the candidates by winning the world cup. Carlsen beat Abasov
    in the semi-final of the world cup. Abasov took his qualifying spot.
    The coincidence markers are they there...
  2. e4
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    28 Mar '24 09:13
    At last!

  3. e4
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    27 Mar '24 17:121 edit
    Ahh..the a-pawn promotes, my first thought was a promotion but I missed
    that one completely because I was getting so close my way. Good fun though.
    (please no more for a week or two.)
  4. e4
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    27 Mar '24 15:58
    This is best I can do, I am probably being stupid missing something obvious.
    I've given up.

  5. e4
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    26 Mar '24 21:42
    Hi BigDogg

    I'll figure it out...eventually. I was trying to do it whilst watching the football and now
    I have to prepare a lecture for tomorrow. I'll give them this. 🙂
  6. e4
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    26 Mar '24 20:11
    This is the best I can do so far.

  7. e4
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    26 Mar '24 08:08
    Had a look last night.



    Working on a theory the b-pawn takes on a2, b1 Knight off taking things, the
    h8 Rook, the e7 pawn and c8 Bishop. a1 rook moves to b1, black pawn on a2
    promotes to Rook, that Rook goes to b5 or c6, white b1 Rook goes back to a1
    to vacate b1 for Knight to return home. (or something like that.)
  8. e4
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    25 Mar '24 22:04
    Just noticed this, I'll give it a shot.
  9. e4
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    23 Mar '24 10:05
    @BigDogg

    Yes that looks much better. I think the original was did that way for effect.
  10. e4
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    22 Mar '24 17:152 edits
    Hi mchill,

    For years, certainly from the mid 70's to early 80's I rarely left the house without a
    book of chess puzzles and Reinfeld's 1,000 combinations was a favourite. when I done
    the last one I started again.. I probably went through that book, every diagram,
    about 4-5 times. About 10 years ago, my last job enabled me to sit and do puzzles
    again all day. Again it was the Reinfeld book, a new copy, the first copy had fallen to bits.
    I know for a fact I went through the new one twice. Some I recognised, but some not.
  11. e4
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    22 Mar '24 10:43
    Hi BigDogg,

    I'd be interested as well. I saw it in a solutions section to a previous CHESS magazines
    Quiz (which I do not have, or I do have but mislaid it)
    So maybe the composer's name and other details were given in the original magazine.
    If it is sound please post the game.
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    22 Mar '24 00:271 edit

    Chess Coincidences No.314.is a picture of
    me wearing a red polo shirt with No.3 on it.
    (all is explained in the blog. think ‘Roulette.’ )

    A cartoon, A chess site recommendation, A mini book review,
    two puzzles, an RHP game with an very good OTB sister game.

    Another lone which Bishop mate which should have inspired me
    to find the same idea in a game I was playing against a computer.
    This was chess coincidence No.315 (think chess playing idiot...me. )


    White, as usual playing up the board, to play and win. (mate in 7.)

    Blog Post 599
  13. e4
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    18 Mar '24 19:361 edit
    HI BigDogg,

    It sounds like the code you would have on your luggage. It was in a house safe
    and a gun was stolen and used. Because it was so tragic I could not use it though
    it's still rolling around my mind with a cartoon (Carlsen has been robbed, he is
    standing by empty an safe, two police officers talking 'He says the combination was '0-0-0' )
    The problem is I cannot draw!
  14. e4
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    18 Mar '24 08:551 edit
    @bigdogg said
    Splendid. Time to go pad my bank account with some 0-0-0's! 🤩
    A while back one of my blog Ideas team sent me a link about a house robbery
    that was proved to be an inside job because the villain knew the combination
    of the wall safe; it was '0-0-0'
  15. e4
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    17 Mar '24 11:221 edit
    Ha-Ha.

    I've done a classic. I never knew they had a puzzle page at the bottom of the page.
    I thought you were talking about this site;

    https://www.wtharvey.com/index.html

    What a fool, I bet you lot think I'm a nutter.

    That site is on my favorites and I thought Russ had linked to it that is why I started
    going on about OTB chess.. Of course I do not try two or three of those set mate puzzles a day.

    The site I linked too (by WTHarvey aka William Harvey) is the best puzzle site on the net.

    OTB problems, set mate problems,...all kind of things. Give it a go.
    I'll mention it in the next blog. (I might forget to mention my forum blunder.)
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