Problem of the month: April 2019

A previously unreleased endgame problem.

USING ONLY YOUR FINGERTIP

TURN: BLACK/WHITE
LEVEL: EASY (It should be…)

5-5. Your turn. Whatever your color, you win in two moves by touching only one of your marbles.

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The most despairing games

April 14, 2019

Book cover of Apostilles or the useful and the futile (1972), by Robert Mallet

“What is most despairing is not the impossible, but rather the failure to achieve the possible.”

(Apostille ou l’utile et le futile, Gallimard, 1972)

Robert Mallet, French writer (1915-2002)

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White is on the verge of victory…

…and yet loses!! What happened?!?

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Serial winner, serial killer?

April 7, 2019

“Now who’s the boss?” (｀∀´)Ψ

“A winner is a losers’ maker.”

Albert Jacquard, French geneticist (1925-2013)

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Every winner should help its opponent to become a better player.
“For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.” (Luke 14:11)

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