{"id":2359,"date":"2012-12-24T01:59:43","date_gmt":"2012-12-24T01:59:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/clactonchess.org.uk\/wordpress\/?p=257"},"modified":"2012-12-24T01:59:43","modified_gmt":"2012-12-24T01:59:43","slug":"chess-whimsies-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/clactonchess.org.uk\/wordpress\/chess-whimsies-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Chess Whimsies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two great senior guys from Writtle, Ivor Smith and Jim Howson, kindly collated these 10 challenging chess puzzles.<\/p>\n<p>(Note &#8211; the solutions are not necessarily unique)<\/p>\n<p>Q1.<\/p>\n<script>\r\n    new PgnViewer(\r\n            { boardName: 'cw1',\r\n                pgnString: '[FEN \"7K\/8\/8\/8\/6QP\/8\/1N3p2\/5N2 w - - 0 1]\" ',\r\n                pieceSet: 'merida',\r\n                pieceSize: 46,\r\n                showCoordinates: true,\r\n                movesFormat: 'default'\r\n            }\r\n    );\r\n<\/script>\r\n\r\n<div id=\"cw1-container\" class=\"cont-float-top\"><\/div><div id=\"cw1-moves\"><\/div>\r\n<div class=\"cont-float-clear\"><\/div>\n<p>Place the Black King<br \/>\n(1) Where he is stalemated<br \/>\n(2) Where he is mated<br \/>\n(3) Where he can be mated in one move<br \/>\n(4) Where he can be mated in two moves<\/p>\n<p>Q2. White mates in 2<\/p>\n<script>\r\n    new PgnViewer(\r\n            { boardName: 'cw2',\r\n                pgnString: '[FEN \"8\/8\/1N6\/8\/1p1B4\/8\/2k1B3\/R3K3 !w - - 0 1]\" ',\r\n                pieceSet: 'merida',\r\n                pieceSize: 46,\r\n                showCoordinates: true,\r\n                movesFormat: 'default'\r\n            }\r\n    );\r\n<\/script>\r\n\r\n<div id=\"cw2-container\" class=\"cont-float-top\"><\/div><div id=\"cw2-moves\"><\/div>\r\n<div class=\"cont-float-clear\"><\/div>\n<p>Q3. White\u2019s pieces fell on the floor. Just a King and a Pawn. Place them back in the correct position on the board and it\u2019s White to play and mate in 2.<br \/>\n<script>\r\n    new PgnViewer(\r\n            { boardName: 'cw3',\r\n                pgnString: '[FEN \"1nrqbn2\/r1pkppbp\/p1p1p1p1\/8\/8\/8\/8\/8 w - - 0 1]\" ',\r\n                pieceSet: 'merida',\r\n                pieceSize: 46,\r\n                showCoordinates: true,\r\n                movesFormat: 'default'\r\n            }\r\n    );\r\n<\/script>\r\n\r\n<div id=\"cw3-container\" class=\"cont-float-top\"><\/div><div id=\"cw3-moves\"><\/div>\r\n<div class=\"cont-float-clear\"><\/div><\/p>\n<p>Q4. White takes back his last move and then mates in two moves.<br \/>\nWatch out for the unexpected.<br \/>\n<script>\r\n    new PgnViewer(\r\n            { boardName: 'cw4',\r\n                pgnString: '[FEN \"8\/5B2\/6p1\/5N1k\/6pP\/5pR1\/5K2\/8 !w - - 0 1]\" ',\r\n                pieceSet: 'merida',\r\n                pieceSize: 46,\r\n                showCoordinates: true,\r\n                movesFormat: 'default'\r\n            }\r\n    );\r\n<\/script>\r\n\r\n<div id=\"cw4-container\" class=\"cont-float-top\"><\/div><div id=\"cw4-moves\"><\/div>\r\n<div class=\"cont-float-clear\"><\/div><\/p>\n<p>Q5. A group of experienced players gathered round the board and racked their brains in vain efforts to discover a series of four legal moves from each player (White of course moving first) which could have brought about the position. Can you find the moves which had been played ?<\/p>\n<script>\r\n    new PgnViewer(\r\n            { boardName: 'cw5',\r\n                pgnString: '[FEN \"rnbqkb1r\/ppp1pppp\/8\/3p4\/8\/8\/PPPPPPPP\/RNBQKB1R w - - 0 1]\" ',\r\n                pieceSet: 'merida',\r\n                pieceSize: 46,\r\n                showCoordinates: true,\r\n                movesFormat: 'default'\r\n            }\r\n    );\r\n<\/script>\r\n\r\n<div id=\"cw5-container\" class=\"cont-float-top\"><\/div><div id=\"cw5-moves\"><\/div>\r\n<div class=\"cont-float-clear\"><\/div>\n<p>Q6. Place all 16 White pieces on the board in legal positions<br \/>\n(i.e. Bishops on opposite colours and no pawns on the first or 8th ranks)<br \/>\nso that none of them can move.<\/p>\n<script>\r\n    new PgnViewer(\r\n            { boardName: 'cw6',\r\n                pgnString: '[FEN \"8\/8\/8\/8\/8\/8\/8\/8 w - - 0 1]\" ',\r\n                pieceSet: 'merida',\r\n                pieceSize: 46,\r\n                showCoordinates: true,\r\n                movesFormat: 'default'\r\n            }\r\n    );\r\n<\/script>\r\n\r\n<div id=\"cw6-container\" class=\"cont-float-top\"><\/div><div id=\"cw6-moves\"><\/div>\r\n<div class=\"cont-float-clear\"><\/div>\n<p>Q7. At the start of a game, with White moving first and Black copying his<br \/>\nfirst three moves exactly, how can White mate with his fourth turn?<\/p>\n<script>\r\n    new PgnViewer(\r\n            { boardName: 'cw7',\r\n                pgnString: '[FEN \"rnbqkbnr\/pppppppp\/8\/8\/8\/8\/PPPPPPPP\/RNBQKBNR w - - 0 1]\" ',\r\n                pieceSet: 'merida',\r\n                pieceSize: 46,\r\n                showCoordinates: true,\r\n                movesFormat: 'default'\r\n            }\r\n    );\r\n<\/script>\r\n\r\n<div id=\"cw7-container\" class=\"cont-float-top\"><\/div><div id=\"cw7-moves\"><\/div>\r\n<div class=\"cont-float-clear\"><\/div>\n<p>Q8. If White starts with the moves<br \/>\n1) f3 2) Kf2 3) Kg3 4) Kh4<br \/>\nwhich first three moves must Black play in order to give mate with his fourth?<\/p>\n<p>Q9. Alphametics involving chess terms are few and far between but here is one.<\/p>\n<p>BISHOP +<br \/>\nBISHOP<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<br \/>\n= \u00a0 KNIGHTS<\/p>\n<p>There are 10 letters involved in this simple addition sum.<br \/>\nYour task is to find which of the numerals 0 to 9 each letter represents.<\/p>\n<p>Q10. Place 4 queens and a rook on the board so that every square is either occupied or attacked.<\/p>\n<script>\r\n    new PgnViewer(\r\n            { boardName: 'cw8',\r\n                pgnString: '[FEN \"8\/8\/8\/8\/8\/8\/8\/8 w - - 0 1]\" ',\r\n                pieceSet: 'merida',\r\n                pieceSize: 46,\r\n                showCoordinates: true,\r\n                movesFormat: 'default'\r\n            }\r\n    );\r\n<\/script>\r\n\r\n<div id=\"cw8-container\" class=\"cont-float-top\"><\/div><div id=\"cw8-moves\"><\/div>\r\n<div class=\"cont-float-clear\"><\/div>\n<p>Update: 04\/01\/2013<br \/>\nNeed to check your answers? &#8211;<br \/>\nIvor has now released the solutions. You can find them <a title=\"Chess Whimsies Solutions\" href=\"http:\/\/necl.org.uk\/docs\/Chess_whimsies_solutions.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two great senior guys from Writtle, Ivor Smith and Jim Howson, kindly collated these 10 challenging chess puzzles. (Note &#8211; the solutions are not necessarily unique) Q1. Place the Black King (1) Where he is stalemated (2) Where he is mated (3) Where he can be mated in one move (4) Where he can be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-puzzles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/clactonchess.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/clactonchess.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/clactonchess.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/clactonchess.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/clactonchess.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/clactonchess.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/clactonchess.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/clactonchess.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/clactonchess.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}