Chris,
You are not on the right lines there. You really have to think a bit more abstractly.
Lateral Puzzle.
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Re: Lateral Puzzle.
Hi Chris,
It is a position that cannot be reached legally, sounds like you have it.
(Usually I set it up with no White King on the board - I gave 3 clues hinting it was odd, as well as saying ignore the White King.)
It is a position that cannot be reached legally, sounds like you have it.
(Usually I set it up with no White King on the board - I gave 3 clues hinting it was odd, as well as saying ignore the White King.)
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Re: Lateral Puzzle.
My bad, I didn't read Chris' last line, so in fact he had it all along. He just made the mistake of thinking Chandler would be restrained by legal considerations
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Re: Lateral Puzzle.
Hi Mathew,
Try it on players, (leave the white King off the board which gives a hint it's illegal.)
It is a nod to how good pattern recognition is and how much we depend on it. (though we do not know we are doing it.)
This is one the coaching positions I use for my kids who have bit more experience. Good but raw round the edges.
White to play and right away they give happily a Philidor's Legacy mate in 5 starting with 1.Qe6+
Thanks to pattern recognition we can all see, instantly, in a split second, a mate in 5.
I then ask them why mate in 5 moves when you can mate in 4 moves or even 2 moves.
They often moan because I am tricking them. I tell them I'm tricking then for fun and to learn in a classroom.
Your opponents will be trying to trick you over the board in earnest and it's not funny when they succeed.
Try it on players, (leave the white King off the board which gives a hint it's illegal.)
It is a nod to how good pattern recognition is and how much we depend on it. (though we do not know we are doing it.)
This is one the coaching positions I use for my kids who have bit more experience. Good but raw round the edges.
White to play and right away they give happily a Philidor's Legacy mate in 5 starting with 1.Qe6+
Thanks to pattern recognition we can all see, instantly, in a split second, a mate in 5.
I then ask them why mate in 5 moves when you can mate in 4 moves or even 2 moves.
They often moan because I am tricking them. I tell them I'm tricking then for fun and to learn in a classroom.
Your opponents will be trying to trick you over the board in earnest and it's not funny when they succeed.
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Re: Lateral Puzzle.
Heh, yes, that's the position I had (surely it only has 4-fold symmetry, unless you specify the rooks as being different?). For some great puzzles like this, see the books by Raymond Smullyan.