Chess Puzzle #4609

CHESS PUZZLE, FEN 6k1/pp4p1/6np/2P5/PrP3B1/3Pr1BK/6PP/R2Q2R1 b - -

Added by:	willikizz
Added on:	04-Jun-08
Description:
Difficulty:	chess puzzle 6k1/pp4p1/6np/2P5/PrP3B1/3Pr1BK/6PP/R2Q2R1 b - -
Attempts:	1611
Solved:	1507 (93%)


Black to move, mate in 2

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chessikins
04-Oct-12, 01:08

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Again...

Yet another easy puzzle that starts with check..one day someone will get creative,put some effort in,and set a puzzle that remains available to all but doesn't take the easy way out..

gustacq
04-Oct-12, 05:00

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To chessikins

Why don't you propose us something more clever chessikins ?

shardik
04-Oct-12, 08:40

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It is SUPPOSED to be easy

I've said it before and I'll probably say it again, there are people on here with a rating of much less than 1000 who genuinely will miss an easy mate like this one. They need practice too. People with a rating of over 1700 should be doing the hard puzzle and accepting that the easy one is for beginners.

I normally do both and find the difficult puzzle - well, difficult (mostly) !

shardik
04-Oct-12, 08:42

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Note the percentage

Note - 8% of people did not solve this. Not everyone finds it easy.

yadasampati
04-Oct-12, 09:00

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@chessikins

With all respect, i only read complaints of you when easy puzzles are too easy for you, but never a compliment when they are not. And i totally agree with gustacq and rockgod1965.

fezzik
04-Oct-12, 09:28

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Easy puzzle

This was an easy puzzle. I have no problem at all with easy puzzles in the easy section.

I think of easy puzzles as tactics training exercises, much like the puzzles in Laszlo Polgar's book of combinations. I don't mind whether such puzzles begin with checks. For specialists in composed puzzles, the more advanced puzzles will always be more satisfying.

I liked this one better than many we've seen because it was optically attractive. However, to say that because 8% didn't solve the puzzle it's not too easy doesn't make sense. Even in positions where there's only one legal move there's not a 100% solve rate. This was pretty easy, but it wasn't a back-rank mate or a Philidor's mate, so I gave it two stars.

Difficulty: 2 Stars
Aesthetics: 1.5 Stars

kiwisouth
04-Oct-12, 12:21

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Use the easy puzzle as a training tool

I use the easy puzzle as a blitz training tool to solve as fast as possible

puzzler77
04-Oct-12, 13:16

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The odds...

could be even worse. See

puzzle #77216

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