Here are the last 6 puzzles. Remember, the winning time was about 6.5 minutes including filling out the name and rating.
If you want to see the full size puzzles, click on the picture and it will enlarge.
Monday, July 30, 2007
SP Puzzle Solving Championship (part 2)
Here are the last 6 puzzles. Remember, the winning time was about 6.5 minutes including filling out the name and rating.
If you want to see the full size puzzles, click on the picture and it will enlarge.
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This is too hard for me. I resign.
Too easy! LOL
I got it in under 10 minutes. I recognized the patterns from a combination book I've been studying.
Number 9 was probably the hardest for me, since (if I have the right solution) one of the moves did not involve a check, and those seemingly non-forcing moves are hard for m to find.
I got it about 2-4 minutes and I'm a weak expert player :-D
Isn't number 9 after a famous Capablanca game (before 1st trip to Europe, against some US player other than Marshall)?
My brain is too fried to try these. Lost a piece to a mine year old tonight. Dang kids should pick on people their own age. :-)
Aha! Capablanca-Raubitschek, NY 1906.
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1458859
I'm not even smart enough to know whose turn it is. Can someone help me?
I got them all in about 11 minutes, though it would have been more than twice as fast if I hadn't had to write the darn things down! Often I would come to a problem, see the solution instantly, then have to spend valuable time painstakingly writing it all out.
Number 9 is very hard, I think it took me more time than all the others combined!
BTW, to anon 3:14, it's White to move in all positions.
I'm in the upper 2100s and it took me 6 min, 5 sec to write everything out. Question: was it required to write out every variation? I did (pretty much: on #9, I gave 2...Rb7 but not all of the other legal, losing moves), and it definitely slowed me down.
I'm 1600 and I got it in 6 minutes. The problem is doing it under pressure like those girls did instead of with no pressure like I did. I'm pretty sure some of them panick just like kids panic on their SATs. That's something a good teacher needs to instill: don't panic. Of course finding a combination in an actual game is much tougher than finding a combination when you know there is one to be found.
O there is a part 1 also. So add 2 minutes to that. So it took me 8 minutes. Those girls are good: I knew something must be wrong.
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