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way too obvious and straitforward. Also a small hint for Kingdawar: using of full names (with patronymics) is very formal in Russian and limited to very special situations, game titles are usually written like "Sax - Salov" or "G. Sax - V. Salov". "Gyula Sax - Valery Salov" is also acceptable, but including "Borisovich" is just plain ridiculous.
No offence intended whatsoever. Well, everyone on GK agrees that you're by far the best contributor to Puzzles section

Patronymics sounds like a very formal word to me. I had to look it up.

hi, i just wanted to say: that using ´´ridiculous´´ it might be offensive

have a nice day

... is saying that a puzzle, classified as "easy" and meant to encourage beginners, is "too obvious and straightforward"
... is criticizing someone because he spells out the players full names

Well I think it was more or less as follows: first I realized writing "Bobby Fischer" is not providing the correct information, his name is "Robert James Fischer", not his popular nickname (similar to "Billy" or "Bill" instead of "William"). I also intend to provide the same information for the same player for every puzzle. So I looked up all my Fischer puzzles and changed it into Robert James Fischer. Then I realized Sam Lloyd is neither that nor Sam Loyd but actually Samuel Loyd. So I changed every Loyd entry for uniformity considerations. There are many other composers of whom second names are known. There are players of whom the name is given as "Tigran L. Petrosian", then why not take some time to find out what's behind this initial? (Levonovich) Then I also knew that Max Euwe is not actually Max Euwe but Machgielis Euwe. So I changed that too. And then there were guys such as Kasparov of which I knew, that like Fischer, they had second names (Garry Kimovich Kasparov).

Now I know most won't care one way or the other, and that it does seem a bit over the top at times and probably I do make mistakes as the only source I have is the Internet. I do this mainly for my own archiving purposes, i.e. it is more convenient for myself to retrieve GameKnot puzzles this way. But I am not entirely consistent either, "Miroslav Havel" (today's other frontpage puzzle) is actually also a pseudonym (for Miroslav Kostal) which a short search reveals.

On a final note, I agree this puzzle is "too easy" (and less enjoyable because of the Qxf2+/Rxf2+ choice) but the game shows how one 2600+ grandmaster wracked another 2600's kingside. The solver, who would never have thought himself of being strong enough to defeat such renown players, happily joins in to deliver the final punches. (naturally it remains a question how solidly the leading-up play would have been conducted by the solver, but provided with the full game information it is easy enough to copy/paste this into your favorite search engine and replay and think through the entire game)

*disclaimer: quite probably this recap is not chronologically nor factually correct (I have always added Max Euwe as Machgielis), basically none of my memories of thoughts are, but I believe this provides some considerations I made.

How long did it take you to type out that comment?

According to chessgames entry www.chessgames.com the position in this puzzle is not correct as there should be an extra black pawn on e4 making it a mate in 4 since the white Queen cannot interpose itself on e2.

I see your point Kingdawar, I was just pointing out (as a native Russian speaker) that it looks really weird and (imho) necessary once in one hundred thousand cases to differentiate Tigran Vartanovich Petrosyan and Tigran Leonovich Petrosyan. And I don't agree it improves googling experience - quite the opposite in fact, as most sources do not include this thingy (which some incorrectly call "second name") - just try to google for ""Valery Salov" chess" and ""Valery Borisovich Salov" chess".

It's OK. I just realized you wrote "based on..." in your description, so it's all true.

... made me encounter the words "way too obvious and straitforward" and "ridiculous". That is plain criticism. But i stop reacting to this because first of all i think this whole point of names is not worthwhile, and secondly i think this is a nice puzzle for beginners and for them it is neither "obvious" nor "straightforward"

Yes according to my search engine I get a lot more matches for Valery Salov chess than I do for Valery Borisovich Salov chess but then on the other hand I get even more matches for Valery Borisovich chess! So how to know which name to search under! Better the longer name for a more refined and relevant search?

Very well for your privacy concerns. I recommend also www.duckduckgo.com, I don't use Google search engine any more. It's an unethical company.

It seems to me that we are facing a very complex problem after all...

I try to get the full names of my puzzles from games ( now I do.) cause kingdawar is my mentor, I'll listen to his suggestions and try to do what he says. he his the king of puzzles (at least on GK   )