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Saturday, August 18, 2018

Puzzle #77: White to Play; White to Tinue

Hello, Takkers of the world!

Here's a neat Tinue sent to me by u/archvenison. It's from a game between him and Syme. If you want to see the game up to this point - here it is.

I won't list the number of turns until Tinue on this puzzle as it is deceiving. See what you can come up with!

For the purpose of this puzzle, Tinue is defined as a board state in which no matter what the opposing player does during their turn (Black, in this instance), a road win will be awarded to the other player (White) on their next turn. If you are familiar with Chess, Tinue is very similar to Checkmate.

Please form your answer with PTN or a link to your solution via ptn.ninja. Also, be sure to use the spoiler tag so as not to ruin it for later puzzle solvers.

UPDATE:  The Reddit site has updated and the newer version does not recognize the older spoiler tag - " [spoiler text](/spoiler) ". The new version has it's own spoiler tag " >! spoiler text !< ". Unfortunately, the new spoiler tag does not work on the old Reddit. So, for the time being, since we have community members using both new and old Reddit, both tags need to be used. I found a way to nest these spoiler tags:

>! [spoiler text](/spoiler) !<

Ex:  >![35. a3> 3b2+](/spoiler)!<


I know it's a bit of a pain, but eventually, we should be able to switch over to the new tag only.

Be sure to thank u/archvenison for this one!

P.S. If you have suggestions for puzzle board states, please let me know. If you would like to post them yourself but don't know how, I can also help with the behind-the-scenes steps.



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