Showing posts with label chess. Show all posts
Showing posts with label chess. Show all posts

Tuesday, November 02, 2010

Fatal Attraction

Well,
don't get any ideas from the title. This title is given to an incredible chess game that happened between Edward Lasker and George Alan Thomas. Here is the link. Observe, how every move after the Queen sacrifice is forced :-)

Saturday, September 26, 2009

One of the greatest chess puzzle

Lately, I have grown a bit of interest in chess, thanks to Ramprasad. He pointed to this page. Truely, an amazing puzzle indeed. Holy Grail!!!!

Just copying the positions in FEN here for those out there who are curious to solve it first :-).

Bq1B1K2/3PpN2/P3Pp2/P1p2P2/2Pk1b1R/1p6/pN1P1P2/QR6 w - - 0 1

White to move and mate in 4.