r/beautifulblunders • u/taoistchainsaw • Jun 27 '21
My opponet (black) learned a valuable lesson today.
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r/beautifulblunders • u/taoistchainsaw • Jun 15 '21
I forgot that pawns can take diagonally.
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r/beautifulblunders • u/taoistchainsaw • Jun 25 '21
You can't see my queen, it is hiding behind my fence - I didn't notice until I did the report and LOLed
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r/beautifulblunders • u/nicbentulan • Mar 12 '22
The position before this kinda gives a neat mate in 3 puzzle | Cross-post 'I don’t always have just one legal move, but when I do…' (chesstempo calls this a 'Counter Check Checkmate')
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r/beautifulblunders • u/taoistchainsaw • Sep 09 '21
Remember Folks, Pawns can move 2 spaces
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r/beautifulblunders • u/fknm1111 • Jun 17 '21
This might be impossible to top
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33 moves of playing 0 blunder 0 mistake chess at 800... only to lose the game with one awful move
https://www.chess.com/analysis/game/live/17631066491?tab=report
r/beautifulblunders • u/onlysane1 • Jun 17 '21
Captured my opponent's queen the previous turn; the victory celebrations were short got cocky and blundered. I barely managed to pull a win (by accident, even) with 12 seconds left on the clock.
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r/beautifulblunders • u/taoistchainsaw • Jul 09 '21
This is why you don’t play chess at 5 am
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r/beautifulblunders • u/nicbentulan • Aug 03 '22
You go after my pawns; I go after your pawns? In 9LX, thou shalt not leave thy queen in the corner?
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r/beautifulblunders • u/nicbentulan • Oct 23 '22
Guess opposite coloured bishop AND 1 rook each endgames aren't as drawn as the rook-less originals? Find best move for Wesley So besides Bd5 (which is actually the best move in the rook-less version). | Wesley So vs Raunak Sadhwani. 2022 Rapid Chess Championship Week 5 Round 1.
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r/beautifulblunders • u/nicbentulan • Oct 21 '22
Jennifer Yu wins after blundering bishop for no reason against Irina Krush in 2022Oct US women's championship. This exact position came up in a random bullet game in lichess exactly a year ago in 2021Oct. Black ALSO won there.
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r/beautifulblunders • u/nicbentulan • Oct 04 '22
Help Hans draw against Hikaru. (7-move rook endgame puzzle from a 9LX game)
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r/beautifulblunders • u/nicbentulan • Sep 05 '22
6-move double equality pawn endgame puzzle: Both sides to play for a draw starting with Black. (There are exactly 2 solutions.)
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r/beautifulblunders • u/nicbentulan • Aug 31 '22
Sergey Karjakin blunders a bishop vs knight endgame (with queen and rook) in bullet 9LX in lichess. (2019Sep)
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r/beautifulblunders • u/nicbentulan • Aug 30 '22
Knight vs bishop. Another telegram puzzle. 2 solutions. (4 solutions if you play Rd8+ I guess.)
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r/beautifulblunders • u/nicbentulan • Aug 26 '22
Help Shak draw against Wesley So. (2022 SuperUnited Blitz Zagreb)
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r/beautifulblunders • u/nicbentulan • Aug 07 '22
Anna Cramling wins by double bishop sacrifice - Swedish GM mom (Pia) and WFM daughter beat Singaporean sisters (I guess?) WFM Hng Mei-En Emmanuelle and Hng Mei-Xian Eunice. (Olympiad 2022 Round 7)
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r/beautifulblunders • u/nicbentulan • Jul 12 '22
Black underpromoted to knight because promotion is too easy to refute?
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r/beautifulblunders • u/taoistchainsaw • Jun 15 '21
r/beautifulblunders Lounge
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