02-17-2022, 10:46 PM
Post chess puzzles for people to solve. These can be actual puzzles (in that they are composed problems or are from grandmaster games) or, even more fun, they can be actual positions from your own games. Typically a post would probably consist of a screenshot of a position, with "X to play and win/mate/draw/what is the best move in this position." I expect solvers to NOT use an engine as that takes away all the fun in doing this (though it is just fine for the solvers to post a link to engine analysis in their response if they could not figure it out on their own. I recommend https://lichess.org/editor for setting up the position and then analyzing it. Obviously the poster themselves will have to use an engine at some point in order to verify people's solutions, especially for puzzles that aren't from their own games. Even for your own games you often may have to, because people may come up with a second or third best move that is still a good answer).
I'll go first, starting with an easy one. Black would be equal if they had taken with the knight after white sac'd his bishop, but alas, they took back with the pawn. White to move and mate in 4 (from one of my games, I managed to find it).
[Image: https://i.ibb.co/sqR4Bff/FL2-YCnd-Vk-Ac-Msj1.png]
I'll go first, starting with an easy one. Black would be equal if they had taken with the knight after white sac'd his bishop, but alas, they took back with the pawn. White to move and mate in 4 (from one of my games, I managed to find it).
[Image: https://i.ibb.co/sqR4Bff/FL2-YCnd-Vk-Ac-Msj1.png]