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Saturday, October 6, 2018

Puzzle #84: Black to Play; Black to Tinue

Good evening, Takkers!

As stated last week, I'm going to take a few weeks and feature easier puzzles for our newer players. But, I will also try to keep something for the more experienced puzzle solvers. This will probably come in the form of an additional step or related puzzle. I'm not sure exactly how easy to make these, as I don't want to insult or bore anyone. On the other hand, I don't want to alienate anyone by making the puzzles impossible. So, tonight, I will post a moderately difficult puzzle. I will make it a bit harder by not posting the number of turns until Tinue. But, I will post this information and a couple other hints on Reddit for less experienced or stumped players to view.

If you are new to these puzzles, I try my best to post one every Saturday night (EST). They are usually one of the following types: Tinue (game ending via forced road), Tinue Avoidance (is there a way out?), Gaelet (game ending via flat count), and Best Move (what would you do, and why?).

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

The best way to solve these puzzles is to find a move that forces your opponent into doing something that benefits you. Then, you use that forced move to force another move, until you have won. Sometimes there are more ways than 1 to go about this. While I love seeing the different variations, usually the shortest path to a forced win is considered best.

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.

The new Reddit spoiler tag is shown below:

>!spoiler!<

Ex:  >!35. a3> 3b2+!<



Thank you and enjoy!!

P.S. If you have a puzzle you want me to post, feel free to send it my way. If you would like to post it yourself but don't know how, I can also help with that. Any other questions or comments are welcome, too.


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