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hmm Kamikaze style chess eh?

Surely someone needs to screen this, it is almost an advert for their site and this "puzzle" is not a good advert.
Fair play to chesskingdeluxe (no longer a member), it must have taken them quite a bit longer for them to make this than it has for any one to solve it.
This is not a puzzle, more of an demonstration of how not to make a puzzle.
Anyone get the feeling the feeling we are not happy about this "puzzle" (my son likes it though, he´s finished a puzzle).

a caveman can solve it, and that is probably insulting to cavemen. Still, about 3% failed to solve it...??? Wonder who those folks are?

a caveman can solve this, and that is basically an insult to cavemen

I gave this puzzle negative 3 stars.

Even a zero star rating is too much.

I liked it!!!

For some, this is a good puzzle.
Like macheide said, don't be so rude. I'll add, don't be so arrogant.

It's called an easy puzzle for a reason. It's ok to have an easy "easy puzzle" as far as I'm concerned. It's even called an easy puzzle. If you were expecting a hard puzzle, you should have chosen the daily "hard puzzle".

To those who complain about us complainers ...

One reason many people complain about the puzzle is that it is too easy.

Not just easy - but too easy.

It does not teach any tactics. It does not provide insight into understanding chess. It has no subtlety. I've seen some good 6 move easy puzzles, but this is not one of them.

I think this puzzle is just an easy and funny one. Maybe, it's not a puzzle at all, just something else...Today, I'm in a good mood, so I liked it !

blackmonkey, granted that not every puzzle teaches a tactic, and some can be entertaining. Some impossible puzzles (i.e. - can't occur in a real game) are quite entertaining, but I didn't find this particular puzzle entertaining either. If others did, then more power to them, but after looking over all the comments about how the puzzle is easy, stupid, or ugly, then it's clear that this puzzle is too easy and not entertaining for most people. I'll stick with the majority opinion on this one.

hcajg77, whether people call this too easy or just easy probably depends on their skill level. Maybe instead of rating puzzles from 1 to 5 stars (which is subjective since what I call 4 stars, some 2200 level player might call 2 stars), let's consider if GameKnot rated puzzles by the level of whomever solves them. Gameknot does that for tactics. A puzzle like this might get an 800 rating since the majority of 800 level players should be able to solve this one blindfolded. Another puzzle may deserve a 2100 level if it stumps most people less than 2100.

That way instead of seeing lots of complaints that the puzzle is stupid, too easy, or ugly, anybody over 800 would just skip it as not worth their time. If I could magically refactor GameKnot to rate puzzles by level, I'd only deal with puzzles rated 1500 or higher.

No but you can see by the star rating 97% of over 1500 attempts solved with less than three wrong moves and it is rated 1 star, I´m pretty sure there are very few 1 stars as that is an average and you cant vote less than 1
You can see Rich speaks sense on the rating and in this little gameknot community etc etc

What is the rook on f1 for?



Distraction?