Mar 2021
1:12pm, 22 Mar 2021
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SPR
Yeah and it was still available a move later as well. By the time I saw it on move 9 it was too late, lol.
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Mar 2021
3:37pm, 22 Mar 2021
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JulesR
Free pieces always good, but it’s a long distance away so maybe not that easy to visualise?
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Mar 2021
6:02pm, 22 Mar 2021
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SPR
It feels like one that should be seen by doing the basic checks though. I guess you don't normally expect things like that out of the opening though.
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Mar 2021
9:20pm, 23 Mar 2021
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JulesR
A more straightforward Daily Puzzle today on chess.com - I don’t often solve them that easily. Anyone else too?
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Mar 2021
9:22pm, 23 Mar 2021
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SPR
Just had a look and it was indeed easy.
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Mar 2021
10:11pm, 23 Mar 2021
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Meglet
I didn’t get it at all. I spent ages trying to work out how it was mate as the knight could take the rook, until I realised. There were two things that don’t necessarily jump out to a relative novice, the discovered check, and the pin.
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Mar 2021
11:18pm, 23 Mar 2021
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JulesR
It’s probably a bit of pattern recognition & a bit of ‘have I got any possible checks’?
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Mar 2021
11:37pm, 23 Mar 2021
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SPR
I think that's it. A bit like how the move in the puzzle from game I posted is fairly easy if you perform the simple process of looking for checks and pieces I can threaten. It's a fairly simple process to perform on puzzles and daily games but it is easy to start scanning aimlessly.
Good pattern recognition can mean you see those things without having to perform that process which is nice as it can make evaluation quicker.
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Mar 2021
9:31am, 26 Mar 2021
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JulesR
Quite smug to have solved today’s daily puzzle by asking the classic first question ‘are there any checks’....a lot:)
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Mar 2021
3:28pm, 26 Mar 2021
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bish
I got today’s as well - bit disappointed to see on the analysis that black can avoid being mated with a better defence .
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