Timeline for Are there any hard mate-in-2 problems?
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| Jun 1, 2023 at 19:48 | comment | added | Inertial Ignorance | @SteveBennett But for certain hard problems, our intuitions won't help us much, so we may be forced to simply go through every possible legal move until finding the mate. This wouldn't be difficult to do once, but since it's the second move, you'd have to do it for every first move you consider. The branching factor could be a serious issue. | |
| Jun 1, 2023 at 2:45 | comment | added | Steve Bennett | @InertialIgnorance "forced" in the sense that we know that White's second move is checkmate. So it's pretty quick to scan through the available options. | |
| May 31, 2023 at 19:59 | comment | added | RemcoGerlich | There is no reason why black would have fewer pieces or available moves than white. | |
| May 31, 2023 at 14:50 | answer | added | Brian Towers♦ | timeline score: 1 | |
| May 31, 2023 at 8:01 | answer | added | Hauke Reddmann | timeline score: 0 | |
| May 31, 2023 at 6:13 | comment | added | user30536 | cont. --- see the last few awards for two-movers. | |
| May 31, 2023 at 6:07 | comment | added | user30536 | Two-movers that are hard for ... who? Many problems were hard when they were published, while the idea they were based on since then has entered into the general chess problem culture, and are now considered part of the stock-in-trade. A side-competition to the A.C.P.A. tourney of 1878 gave an award for the most difficult problem published by Cleveland Sunday Morning Voice (1 pr. Wennerberg, see pdb.dieschwalbe.de/search.jsp#P1022226). The American Chess Journal, 1879 was only about difficulty: see anders.thulin.name/tourneys/american-chess-journal-1879 for prize winners. | |
| May 31, 2023 at 4:54 | comment | added | Inertial Ignorance | Why would the second move be forced? | |
| May 31, 2023 at 2:04 | comment | added | cmgchess | thechessworld.com/articles/problems/…. Just an example. I think you can find many by googling mate in 2 compositions | |
| May 31, 2023 at 1:46 | history | asked | Steve Bennett | CC BY-SA 4.0 |