Times cryptic chess clue

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Re: Times cryptic chess clue

Post by Phil Neatherway » Tue Sep 28, 2021 7:55 pm

From today's cryptic crossword in the i:-

Knowing quality of knight captured in game by a rook (8)

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Re: Times cryptic chess clue

Post by David Williams » Tue Sep 28, 2021 8:51 pm

I decided pretty quickly that the answer probably started with AR, and that I was looking for a five-letter game to put the N in to go after it, for a word that meant "knowing quality". I have to admit none sprang to mind, and even when I considered that the answer might end in NESS it took a second or two.

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Re: Times cryptic chess clue

Post by Roger de Coverly » Tue Sep 28, 2021 9:22 pm

David Williams wrote:
Tue Sep 28, 2021 8:51 pm
I decided pretty quickly that the answer probably started with AR, and that I was looking for a five-letter game to put the N in to go after it, for a word that meant "knowing quality".
I concluded it would be "exchange" as in "exchange sacrifice". The local equivalent of "quality" is the word used for an exchange sacrifice in several European languages. Those who recall the TV Show "The Master Game" may recall Hort and other East Europeans describing moves in this way.

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Re: Times cryptic chess clue

Post by Simon Brown » Thu Oct 21, 2021 3:43 pm

From today's Times; "Willing to support objective when mate approaches (7)". Quite easy if you know there's a chess connection.

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Re: Times cryptic chess clue

Post by Paul Habershon » Thu Oct 21, 2021 6:27 pm

Simon Brown wrote:
Thu Oct 21, 2021 3:43 pm
From today's Times; "Willing to support objective when mate approaches (7)". Quite easy if you know there's a chess connection.
Maybe the clue should have 'perhaps' added; mate can approach in the opening and middlegame too.

Yesterday we had
See pawn and a bishop boxed in with nowhere to move (5-1-5)
I solved it when I had _ _ _ _K/_/_ _ _ _K

You need a colloquial synonym of 'see' to parse it correctly.

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Re: Times cryptic chess clue

Post by Paul Habershon » Mon Oct 25, 2021 6:47 am

Yesterday's Sunday Times:
Leave a crossroads and transfer from A2 to A3? (4, 4, 4)
MAKE ONE'S MOVE

I didn't much like the definition, but the upper case chess notation grated more. I spent too long thinking of the size of paper.

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Re: Times cryptic chess clue

Post by Reg Clucas » Mon Oct 25, 2021 3:54 pm

Another from our free weekly advertiser - "Touching pawn, atoning for wrong move (8)"

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Re: Times cryptic chess clue

Post by Ian Thompson » Sat Nov 27, 2021 11:05 am

A crossword for chess fans, which is copied from December's Chess magazine.

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Re: Times cryptic chess clue

Post by Mike Alderson » Sat Nov 27, 2021 2:32 pm

Ian Thompson wrote:
Sat Nov 27, 2021 11:05 am
A crossword for chess fans, which is copied from December's Chess magazine.
Warning - don't scroll down too far!

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Re: Times cryptic chess clue

Post by Ian Thompson » Sat Nov 27, 2021 3:10 pm

Mike Alderson wrote:
Sat Nov 27, 2021 2:32 pm
Ian Thompson wrote:
Sat Nov 27, 2021 11:05 am
A crossword for chess fans, which is copied from December's Chess magazine.
Warning - don't scroll down too far!
I don't think the partial solution was there when I first posted, particularly as the introduction (still) says "We reprint the puzzle here, without the solution (which we will add at the end of the match)."

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Re: Times cryptic chess clue

Post by Simon Brown » Thu Dec 16, 2021 4:15 pm

For a moment I thought today's Times had two; "When mate's most likely to kill grouse (7)" and "Reportedly sounded like rook, maybe bothered with tail (7)".

The second clue is hard, I needed --U-A-E to solve.

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Re: Times cryptic chess clue

Post by JustinHorton » Thu Dec 16, 2021 4:21 pm

Endgame
"Do you play chess?"
"Yes, but I prefer a game with a better chance of cheating."

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Re: Times cryptic chess clue

Post by Richard James » Fri Dec 17, 2021 7:36 pm

And CAUDATE.

From today's Guardian Cryptic:

Allocating roles to defend line protecting the king (8)

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Re: Times cryptic chess clue

Post by Mike Alderson » Fri Dec 17, 2021 7:53 pm

Castling

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Re: Times cryptic chess clue

Post by Simon Brown » Tue Jan 25, 2022 5:23 pm

Hard one today; "Twice make knight's move? Not me (6)".

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