Talk:Chess problem

message: I think it would be helpful to have the chess coordinates along the edge of the board in the pictures. At least I have trouble remembering from where they originate and so on.
- Fylke
It appears that very few illustrated chess positions included in Wikipedia have a Forsyth-Edwards Notation (FEN) tag.  Why?  A FEN tag would be very handy for copy/paste entry into user's own chess database.
: FEN-notation is unsuitable for chess problems, as requires past history to be stated. No such history exist, and in some problems it may even be part of the problem to discover it.  Forsyth notation would be useful, but even then the difficulty over the problem world using 'S' and 's' for knights will appear. Athulin (talk) 18:07, 13 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  old talk

message: I wish to ask why did you put the problem of mate in 271? There are several flaws in this problem:
1. It is not a typical problem
2. It doesn't have any artistic value
3. It was composed by a computer
4. It contains duals (e.g.: 20.Kd4/Kc4 or 33.Ke4/Ra4 and others)
I suggest to remove it. Do you want me to chose something else here?
Ofer Comay  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ofercomay (talk • contribs) 15:35, 3 April 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: In my view using this problem within the article is questionable as well, so I support Ofer's offer. Could you suggest the new example here first, please? Thank you for pointing something bothering me for a long time :-) --Ruziklan (talk) 21:34, 3 April 2010 (UTC)

text: The longest orthodox correct chess problem is a 208-mover from André Chéron (Fen: 4nN1Q/p7/p1p3np/p1pkNrpq/7r/K1P4p/2PP4/6B1 w - - 0 1). Journal de Genève, 13.10.1979 (European date format). The first moves are commented by Chéron in that issue, and the main solution in Journal de Genève, 11.09.1976, both available online at http://www.letempsarchives.ch. Others like Blathy's are either illegal or cooked. I suggest to make a separate page for chess problems/studies/games records and to put only important notions here. MHBkz (talk) 16:28, 5 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: the longest problem has duals

message: The links to John Rice in "Further Reading" go to an article about someone other than the problemist. I don't know what the best way would be to make this a "red link" - perhaps a more expert Wikipedian could suggest? 
Incidentally, Rice was a teacher at Tiffin Boys' School when I was a pupil there 1965-71, and R C O Matthews (co-author with Lipton and Rice) is my uncle. He (Matthews) is also an eminent economist and was Master of Clare College, Cambridge (now retired) - somone should write an article on him (in all capacities)! AndrewWTaylor 11:33, 28 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  John Rice & R C O Matthews 

message: Publication details for this problem?  Alexander George (Talk) 13:53, 3 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: 1st prize in the Dubuque Chess Journal Tourney, 1889 (I rely on Breuer: Beispiele zur Ideengeschichte des Schachproblems). The text refers to it being created in 1881 -- I can't say that is wrong, as problems may be created a long time before they're sent to a tourney, even though I suspect '1881' may be a mistake for '1889'.  Athulin (talk) 17:49, 13 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Taverner problem 

message: The Heathcote problem at the top of the article has got to be wrong (it's cooked because both 1.b4+ and 1.Qxh5+ mate, and in any case, neither solution is good enough for the problem to be published, never mind to win a first prize). Can somebody fix it? If not, it ought to be removed from the article. --Camembert 15:21, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Never mind, I found an online source. A black bishop was missing from d1. --Camembert 16:16, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

text: There is only one solution to the problem. If there is, in fact, more than one solution in the position given, then most likely we have a faulty diagram; a problem with more than one solution when only one is intended is (as the article explains) said to be "cooked" and is completely without value. What other solutions do you think there are? --Camembert 14:39, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Heathcote problem 

message: Upgraded to High from Mid due to high linkage to article. ChessCreator (talk) 16:43, 17 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  WikiProject Chess Importance 

message: Hello. I'm admittedly a very low level problem solver, but could anyone please enlighten me as to what the mating move by white is supposed to be after white plays the key (Rh1) and black does Be6? Thanks in advance.
:Nevermind, i've just seen it is e3. As i said, low level.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.22.153.77 (talk) 23:35, 5 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Taverner Problem, Again 

message: Terms such as "moremover" appear in the text of the article without a hyphen, but are defined in bold with a hyphen.  No idea which is correct or preferred, so I don't want to blindly edit, but I wanted to note this inconsistency.  I noticed it because I used ctrl+F to find all occurrences; I don't know much about chess, which is why I was reading this page.  --76.115.3.200 (talk) 22:44, 19 April 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: The term does seem to be represented both ways in articles. The glossary uses hyphen (). Chess prob editors should decide which is better, or continue w/ both. --IHTS (talk) 12:57, 12 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Terms with or without hyphens? 

message: In the "Types of Problem" section directmates are broken down into two-movers, three-movers, and more-movers.  Is this distinction supported by convention?  If so I think there should be a source cited for that distinction.  If not it seems simpler to use a general description of an n-mover, which is basically what the more-movers definition already is for n>3. Imyourfoot (talk) 01:48, 30 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Directmates 

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message: What is the situation with women in this specific part of chess? 
*When was the first one published in a FIDE Album?
*First GM, IM?
Granted, if any of the instances happened. 213.149.51.165 (talk) 23:27, 31 January 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Women 

message: There is one other notable competition called International Solving Contest (ISC). It's worldwide. Theoretically everyone competes against everyone, even amateur against pros. Don't know what is the situation in reality. 213.149.51.165 (talk) 23:27, 31 January 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Tournaments

message: The current definition confuses "dressing the board" with "weasels". Dressing the board is something much older. See "Mate in Two Moves - The Two-Move Chess Problem Made Easy - Brian Harley":
"Very little development took place in problems for some hundreds of years. In fact, it was not until the nineteenth century that composers attained full art-consciousness. [...] In order to make the problem position appear as much like a game ending as possible, the composer added a number of pieces, which had no use whatever in the solution, but more or less equalised the forces. This process, known as "dressing the board," is at complete variance with the modern theory of economy of force. No. 2 is an example of the "game-players" problem; a favourable example, for the solution is not unduly long and there is not much "board-dressing.""  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gresach (talk • contribs) 04:07, 11 August 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dressing the board 

message: Either a solution needs to be given for "white victory in one move" [footnote 5] or someone should remove the trash. 49.184.24.3 (talk) 20:01, 26 April 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Added a solution/explanation. OK now? Dodiad (talk) 22:04, 26 April 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Keyword: solution!