white's objective is to reduce black's forces until they can be ignored completely while the selfmating tableau is put in place... (More than one hundred moves are required for white to execute the first capture)
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Are there chess problems defying solution by humans and machines?
linsley6 wrote:
Are there chess problems defying solution by humans and machines?
generally, such long solutions are surely beyond my abilities!
White to move and force black to win in 12
linsley6 wrote:
it seems one quite difficult problem.
With the black side, which should spend at least 6 plies to promote the pawn, obligatory for a checkmate, with also a necessary precondition that black should be forced not to underpromote his pawn, and with white being necessary to offer at least some pieces but also probably to move his king close to the whole action, I can't find a forced solution. If possible, please do share a pgn with one solution
I could just force the black pawn to move towards promotion like this...
Here is that twelve-move sequence....
White Black
1. Bg6+ 1. Kf8
2. Bh6+ 2. Kg8
3. f7+ 3. Kh8
4. Qf6+ 4. NxQ
5. f8=Q+ 5. Ng8
6. Rh4 6. b6
7. Rg5 7. b5
8. Ke2 8. b4
9. Kf3 9. b3
10. Kg4 10. b2
11. Kh5 11. b1=?
12. Qf6+ 12. NxQ mate
linsley6 wrote:
Here is that twelve-move sequence....
White Black
1. Bg6+ 1. Kf8
2. Bh6+ 2. Kg8
3. f7+ 3. Kh8
4. Qf6+ 4. NxQ
5. f8=Q+ 5. Ng8
6. Rh4 6. b6
7. Rg5 7. b5
8. Ke2 8. b4
9. Kf3 9. b3
10. Kg4 10. b2
11. Kh5 11. b1=?
12. Qf6+ 12. NxQ mate
beautiful confinement!
Jul 1, 2024
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#31
https://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/hardest-chess-puzzle-3#comment-103903483 Please click on the poor link
:tup
#14. selfmate in 2
These are stupid.
Jul 3, 2024
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#35
654Psyfox wrote:
These are stupid.
this actually helps your imagination
nov04-inactive wrote:
654Psyfox wrote:
These are stupid.
this actually helps your imagination
perhaps they aren't that good, don't know. But surely they make me feel creative, while thinking on them
Jul 3, 2024
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#37
654Psyfox wrote:
These are stupid.
plus if you think these are stupid, just leave no need to post comments like these
GabeMiami10 wrote:
You should look up Pal Benko compositions. Super fun selfmates. Find his biography at the library if you can, lots of interesting weird cool puzzles. (it's like $300 on ebay)
thank you!
Introuble2, I'm on the verge of making a podcast to show a few of the most interesting selfmates I've discovered over the past 50 years. This guy 654Psyfox calling selfmates stupid makes me suspect the case for selfmates hasn't been convincingly made. I make this challenge to psyfox: From the start of a regulation game against psy I will take white and force him to win the game. Bob Linsley
linsley6 wrote:
Introuble2, I'm on the verge of making a podcast to show a few of the most interesting selfmates I've discovered over the past 50 years. This guy 654Psyfox calling selfmates stupid makes me suspect the case for selfmates hasn't been convincingly made. I make this challenge to psyfox: From the start of a regulation game against psy I will take white and force him to win the game. Bob Linsley
please do inform, about this collection of selfmate problems, whenever is ready to be exposed!
#19 just appeared out of nowhere..... #20 is the selfmating proposition