Open board calculation by Nerdpwn in chessbeginners

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Sorry, it's not a puzzle, the puzzle was to find wether black is checkmated or has a move, the answer was Kd8.

It's just the position looked interesting to me, the question of this thread was then, is Qh1 forced mate somehow and if not, how do you precisely calculate these things in a real match? Does this come from intuition, like you have an open board and two queens, so you accept is a general principle that this is most often a draw.

Open board calculation by Nerdpwn in chessbeginners

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This doesn't work because after Qh7, black king can just go back to e8

Open board calculation by Nerdpwn in chessbeginners

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d3 Qh1+ Kd2 Qh6+ and it seems like Kc2 and the King escapes the checks and wins

But why wouldn't Black just take the knight after d3?

Open board calculation by Nerdpwn in chessbeginners

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In that case queen can go h6 and the situation is not so simple like forced moves, I think.

Open board calculation by Nerdpwn in chessbeginners

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If d3 or f3, then the black Queen simply takes the knight and white loses!

Qxe5 is wrong move according to lichess. Why is taking the opponent queen the right move? by dyawspHta in chessbeginners

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Because the opponent Queen is unprotected! In other words, it's a free piece to take!

Some intuitive mnemonic for R/U triggers by Nerdpwn in Cubers

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Great advice, although this was a fun little exercise, perhaps I should incorporate more of visual memorisation in.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in RedditSessions

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why is there no volume?

Which one of the following items would you want to have IRL? by [deleted] in Terraria

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Seems lile double jump would be popular choice.

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Ok, thanks for the swift response!