The
first Contest
was a success, and I was asked to prepare a second one. It starts January 1, 2014 and the last day to send answers is February 28, 2014.
Send your answers to
editor@poolcheckers.com
. There are some easy puzzles and some very hard ones.
Points are awarded for completeness, show both main and false lines. Send as many solutions as you want, you can send some first and more later.
A little bit of help - how to record your answers and how to send them back.
Each square on the board has a number, here is a
sample
of a recorded game.
Solution recording sample:
Notice that a complete move has both the white and black moves. Each move shows a starting square and the ending square, for example the 1.d4-e5 says "move checker located on d4 (that is an intersection of column "d" and row "4") and move it to square e5. You do not need to be as fancy as above with line breaks, you can write the solution in a single line like this: 1. d4-e5 a5xc3 2. c5-b6 a7xc5 3. e3-f4 g5xe3 4. e5-d6 e7xg5 5. d6xh6 d8-e7 6. h4-g5 e7-d6 7. g5-f6 d6-c5 8. f6-e7 f8xd6 9. h6-g7 c5-d4 10. g7-f8 d6-e5 11. f8-g7 Short notation is fine too: 1.de5 ac3 2.cb6 ac5 3.ef4 ge3 4.ed6 eg5 and so on |