Olympic Brilliances

(created on 15th March 2026)
Solve 16 famous chess puzzles!
Notes for open-ended questions
If a question is open-ended, enter the answer manually. Answers are case-insensitive. Use only English piece letters (K, Q, R, B, N). You may omit “x”, “+”, and “#”.
Example: if the correct answer is “Rfxf8+”, these answers are accepted: “rff8”, “rff8+”, “Rfxf8”, and “RFF8”. “Rxf8” is not accepted because that move is ambiguous.
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Time for pure chess skills. No history, no book research. You need not to know who played, though it is helpful. Just find THE move. We start with the famous one, so take-off will be easy.


White to move.
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Black to move.
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Black to move.
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White to move.
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White to move.
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White to move.
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White to move.
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White to move.
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Black to move.
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Black to move.
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White to move.
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Black to move.
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Now, time for women's chess!

White to move.
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Black to move.
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Black to move.
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That's the special one! It's not from the Olympiads, most possibly it's not even real, but who cares. If you know it (you should!), then you'll know the stuff. But if you don't know it, there is NO CHANCE you may solve the puzzle, even if you are Magnus Carlsen (but he knows it for sure, so we'll never learn).

White to move.
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