Outrageous Puzzle

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MJMcCready
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Outrageous Puzzle

Post by MJMcCready » Sun Feb 11, 2024 11:23 pm

Do puzzles become more outrageous than this? It is claimed that only Tal could solve it, I'd be very curious to know who else tried their hand that day.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6kpi7OZLaA
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Geoff Chandler
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Re: Outrageous Puzzle

Post by Geoff Chandler » Mon Feb 12, 2024 9:19 am

It has it's own wiki page.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plaskett%27s_Puzzle

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MJMcCready
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Re: Outrageous Puzzle

Post by MJMcCready » Mon Feb 12, 2024 6:29 pm

Yes saw that. It is rather difficult.
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Roland Kensdale
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Re: Outrageous Puzzle

Post by Roland Kensdale » Tue Feb 13, 2024 5:23 pm

More about this:

https://en.chessbase.com/post/solution- ... able-study

Was discussed on this forum in 2020: viewtopic.php?t=11209
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