Constant Marcove

@Jerzeecat @Scaramucci @POTUS the majority? his honesty?? his tweets are the facts??? In which parallel universe have you been living????

@ImShahinyan c8 a8

White mates in 2 Easy peasy🧩

@kibitzingpatzer RxB RxR BxR (Qc1 Bd4+ Kh2 Qe5 Qf4 QxQ# (Qe1 QxQ+ Kh2 Be5# (Q.. Qe1+ Kh2 Be5# (Re1 BxQ RxQ RxR +- (R.. BxQ +- (.. BxQ +-

White just captured a knight on f6. Black to move. What would you do?🧐

@silver83p @ImShahinyan h8 thanks! a1 xa1 Q.. xh2 h3 xh3 h4 xh4

@cmarcove @ImShahinyan a1

White mates in 2 How quickly can you solve this? 🤔

@ImShahinyan h8 a1/h2/h3/h4

@ImShahinyan h8 a1/h3/h4

@kibitzingpatzer at first I thought any R move would work, until QxN made h2 the only one remaining

@cmarcove Correct... and it took me forever to find it.

White to move and mate in two! So many pins. 🤕

@kibitzingpatzer h2 thanks it's a real beauty! Qxh4 Nf7# QxN+ hxQ# Qh7 Ng7# Qh6 QxQ# Qg6,Qf7 NxQ# RxN QxR#

@cmarcove but after 1... Qxf7 the white queen is pinned!

@kibitzingpatzer BxN

“Oh, what a difficult task it is / to get the hippopotamus out of the bog!” While calculating a very complex position Mikhail Tal spent forty minutes of his clock deep in thought. While work through all of the ideas and variations, his mind drifted to a children’s poem about a hippopotamus stuck in a swamp. He became distracted with imagined rescue efforts using helicopters, cranes, ropes, levers... after considering the effort needed, he finally decided - Well, let the hippo drown! "I somehow realized that it was not possible to calculate all the variations, and that the knight sacrifice was, by its very nature, purely intuitive. Since it promised an interesting game, I could not refrain from making it.” (Mikhail Tal, The Life and Games of Mikhail Tal) What do you think was Tal's (very correct move) in this almost equal position. White to move. Tal - Vasiukov Kiev, 1964

@ImShahinyan h1 b8/a7

White mates in 2 Can you solve this in 3 minutes? ⏳

@julesgambit hats off🎓 to you for checkmating this amazing game

Is now a good time to mention that I did my thesis on chess?

@kibitzingpatzer d8 RxQ e7+ h8 exR-R+ Qe8 RxQ# Rf8 e7+ h8 (Qf7 QxR+ KxQ a8#) QxR#

White to move and win! Use the whole board. 🧐

@ImShahinyan Nf6 exN Qd6# QxN Rg8# QxQ Rg8# Qf7 Rg8# BxB Nh7# Be4 Nh7#

Tricky one! White mates in 2

@kibitzingpatzer a7 Be1f2g3h4h2 a1 B.. g1 Ke1 g1 Kc1 a1

White to move and mate in two. Easy 😎

@kibitzingpatzer b1 d1

White to move and mate in two! 🧐

@kibitzingpatzer @dr_gorchani @Renium10 Qc6 Qe1+ Kg2 QxR +- Q.. Qh1# RxR Qh1# Re2 Qh1# Re7 QxR +- f3 Qxf3+ Rf2 Qh1#

@dr_gorchani @Renium10 1. Qc1? BxN 2. gxB Qxf3 3. Rd2 Qg4+ 4. Kf1 Qxe4! what’s your move…

Even the best players fall prey to back rank blindness!! Black to play. Can you defeat the great Mikhail Tal? Tal - Olafsson Las Palmas, 1975

@kibitzingpatzer amazing mate by giving up the pawn advantage & a R!

@cmarcove Correct moves… and thank you!

White to move and checkmate in 5! Can you find it? 🤔

@ImShahinyan c4# with Rd2 getting c3 out of the way

White mates in 2 Can you solve this in 3 minutes? ⏳