Following on from a previous Blog about Caruana’s Pencil I delve deeper into
chess players good luck rituals with a brief tail (sic) about my pre-game ritual
Puzzles were I borrow the idea of @Wyn-Davies using one diagram to make
two puzzles, White to play and mate in two or Black to play and mate in three.
These two are fairly easy, I do another with a tougher solutions.
Then two positions with a RHP player and a top 10 GM playing a selfmate.
We end with an RHP game containing a trap that White thinks they have avoided.
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@greenpawn34
The 2-way puzzles! You claim the first one is simple. It is simple to solve, but I imagine it was very challenging to create.
The second puzzle on the other hand is an act of genius!
Well done Sir! I am extremely impressed.
@Wyn-Davies
Would not call it genius. It is basically a mate on the Queenside
and a mate on the Kingside. Two different games.
Ideally you should have duel mates with all the pieces on both sides involved.
For instance a mate in two with white to play but remove any black piece
and it does not work and a mate in two with black to play that will not work
if any white piece is removed. That would be a harder composition.
@greenpawn34 saidThey can be easily missed if one is not looking the game over carefully. As you said an easy mate on both sides.
@Wyn-Davies
Would not call it genius. It is basically a mate on the Queenside
and a mate on the Kingside. Two different games.
Ideally you should have duel mates with all the pieces on both sides involved.
For instance a mate in two with white to play but remove any black piece
and it does not work and a mate in two with black to play that will not work
if any white piece is removed. That would be a harder composition.
-VR