Chess

btr_fan87, 1 month ago in Puzzle from one of my 3+2 games. Black to play and win.

That was a fun one!

z34, 1 month ago in Puzzle from one of my 3+2 games. Black to play and win.

Link to analysis bord

z34, 2 months ago in Puzzle from one of my 3+2 games. White to play and win.

Solution here

ZeroGravitas, 2 months ago

::: Spoiler alert

Is it Kf3?

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Lifecoach5000, 5 months ago in Puzzle from one of my 3+2 games. Black to play and win.

I feel like it has to start with Bxh3

z34, 5 months ago in Puzzle from one of my 3+2 games. Black to play and win.

Solution here

sanya, 6 months ago in Puzzle from one of my 3+2 games. Black is down a rook. Can you find the best move? Black to play.

Q-a3

jws_shadotak, 6 months ago in Puzzle from one of my 3+2 games. Black is down a rook. Can you find the best move? Black to play.

Black queen to A3 and then B2 for checkmate.

White can check with the queen but as soon as black gets a free move it’s over

xeekei, 6 months ago in Puzzle from one of my 3+2 games. Black is down a rook. Can you find the best move? Black to play.

Queen from F8 to A3? Then from A3 to B2?

I dunno, my chess ain’t good.

z34, 6 months ago in Puzzle from one of my 3+2 games. Black is down a rook. Can you find the best move? Black to play.

FEN of the position

ShaunaTheDead, 6 months ago in Puzzle from one of my 3+2 games. Mate in 3. Black to play

It's actually possible to mate in 2 in this position. Black moves Knight to f3, White has to move King to h1, Black moves Rook to h7 and checkmate.

I'm not actually sure what the "correct" solution is, but mating in 2 is obviously better than mating in 3.

Edit: Ohh I see it. White has to move their Knight to h4 to block Black's rook on h7. Then black takes the knight on h4 for checkmate.

vettnerk, 7 months ago in Puzzle from one of my 3+2 games. Only one move conserves black's advantage. Black to play

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z34, 7 months ago

If rook A8 them pawn C6

You can click on the FEN I linked to one comment below if you want to try a move.

z34, 7 months ago in Puzzle from one of my 3+2 games. Only one move conserves black's advantage. Black to play

FEN of the position to lichess

Lifecoach5000, 7 months ago in Puzzle from one of my 3+2 games. Only one move conserves white's advantage. White to play

f5 is all I got

themeatbridge, 7 months ago

That’s my vote, too, but I dont know for sure.

ShaunaTheDead, 7 months ago

Yeah it has to be f5. The reason it's the right move is that at this stage in the game the goal is to get your king in a position where it can block the opposing king from taking your pawns.

If black takes the pawn on f5, then white can move the king to f5. If black moves to e2 to try to protect that side then white can just switch back to controlling the left side by going to e5.

If black doesn't take the pawn, if they try to move their king to e2 to control the right, white can move the pawn to f3 to check the king and force the king to take it leaving the left side wide open for white. And of course, if black doesn't move their king to the right then white can just take the pawn and have completely control of the right side anyway.

So eventually, barring any kind of blunder, white will be able to promote a pawn, but black will never be able to with this setup as long as white plays f5 here.

maggio, 7 months ago in Puzzle from one of my 3+2 games. Only one move conserves white's advantage. White to play

Managed to guess the right move, but shows that even endgames are really hard to judge

morphballganon, 7 months ago in Puzzle from one of my 3+2 games. Only one move conserves white's advantage. White to play

G3-g4?