Try to solve this.
" It took me forever to design it. Thank goodness it's tough!"
About this.
" My idea was for one piece to guard another and to have a chain reaction."
And this.
I don't want to be rude, but this puzzle was extremely bad. Then it has nothing to do with pieces guarding one another. A puzzle has to have a difficulty in it, and in yours, even a total beginner who doesn't see the discovered mate will take the queen and solve it without even realising.
Also a puzzle should be more than one move...
Your intentions are good, but I'd go pas the complete beginner level before trying to analyse people's games or making puzzles. Concentrate on playing a couple of games, then pick up a book to learn a thing or two about chess, and learn to solve puzzles. Don't waste your time on things you aren't yet good enough to do.
I see nothing wrong with a mate-in-one puzzle. But a good puzzle has one answer and this has two... Bxg4# and Qa5#. Also, as Etienne says, someone who doesn't see the mate may just grab the queen and happen upon the mate. If you put a Black rook on b4 and moved the Black queen to g5 I think you solve both problems.
Etienne was rather tactless while expressing her opinion, but that is her style. I would much prefer brutal honesty to this kind of unwarranted cynicism.
Etienne was rather tactless while expressing her opinion, but that is her style. I would much prefer brutal honesty to this kind of unwarranted cynicism.
His, his... I was a man last time I checked.
...Also a puzzle should be more than one move...
Etienne, I saw some VERY hard "mate in 1" puzzles, so don't think that every "mate in 1" puzzle is bad.
...Also a puzzle should be more than one move...
Etienne, I saw some VERY hard "mate in 1" puzzles, so don't think that every "mate in 1" puzzle is bad.
Yeah I retract myself, such puzzles can be useful to beginners, I just had never seen one and never felt the need for mate in one puzzles... I'd like however to see VERY hard mate in one puzzles... I can only see them for very beginners... I might be mistaken though.
I'd like however to see VERY hard mate in one puzzles...
Here's a mate-in-one puzzle I found entertaining: