tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14539885.post2242726905096572552..comments2023-09-30T18:56:06.919+09:00Comments on The Closet Grandmaster: Delightful PuzzlesUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14539885.post-49695416940815112212013-07-20T00:11:56.784+09:002013-07-20T00:11:56.784+09:00OK, honest, though...I'm NOT too lazy to do th...OK, honest, though...I'm NOT too lazy to do that particular puzzle. OK, maybe I am. But, well, I only got here because I was looking up the Aussie Attack.<br />What an interesting find, this Aussie Attack, as it seems to be a transposition of not only the Nimzo-Indian, but also the Trompowsky.<br /><br />Far from a grandmaster myself, one of the folks at chessdotcom had mentioned it in passing, and it's been a bear to track down. (do they have bears in Australia, too?)<br /><br />Anyway, I do take a bit of fun going at completly off chess topical puzzles on occasion. Thrill of the day for me a few years back was when someone had said I couldn't put eight Pawns on a Chess board in such a manner that they were not on any other Pawn's rank, file or diagonal.<br />And I started with a fresh, mindless naive grin, and somehow just pushed the Pawns into the correct position first time.<br />Then I discovered that one could move the Pawns all simultaneously in any direction, and when a Pawn went off the board on one side, just put it back on on the opposite side, and it made the same claim. No shared diagonals, ranks, or files.<br />So, for fun (that would have to be more fun than reading this, eh?) I kept at it until I found a unique solution that couldn't be moved along in one step increments. It was a unique position, as in, one of a kind. And despite it's being no shared diagonals, files or ranks...it was symmetrically inclined.<br />Now...how's THAT for a puzzle?<br /><br />If only I could learn how to play Chess as well as finding such a position...<br />Practice, practice, practice, I suppose.<br />MisterBoneman<br /><br />d=^))<br />bonemanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14547767520204294295noreply@blogger.com