iBankCoin
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Checkmate!

 

And here’s the solution to the early IBD/PPT chess puzzle, no one solved it, but MPTrader was close (http://ibankcoin.com/gioblog/?p=2170):

 

Knight to F4 blocks the Bking’s path to H5; Bking to H7

Bishop to G5, bishop must not give up that diagnol!; BKing forced to move to H8

Knight to G6 check; BKing forced to move to H7

Knight to F8 check!; Bking forced to move to H8

Bishop to F6 checkmate!

 

… the trick was limiting the black King’s moves to just one.  You will notice the Black king moved from H7-H8-H7-H8 … it had no other choice because white blocked all the other squares.  This is called a “zugzwang”in chess, where the other opponent forces your moves.

Lesson:  Don’t let the market get you caught in a zugzwang!  Set your stops based on volume then price.

 

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8 comments

  1. scum bucket

    Bishop to G7?

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  2. Gio

    My bad, F6. i had that earlier, i don’t know why i changed that. anyway, i updated the page. Sorry!

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  3. scum bucket

    King cannot move to H8 with Bishop on F6. I’m still having trouble.

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  4. Gio

    Sorry scum, i messed up on the the notation. crap. its ‘bishop to G5’. That makes more sense, otherwise its a stalemate.

    … next time I’ll put those abcdefgh12345678. I’m sort of used to the old school version.

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  5. Gio

    So here we go, this is for real…

    1 Nf4 Kh7
    2 Bg5 Kh8
    3 Ng6+ Kh7
    4 Nf8+ Kh8
    5 Bf6++ Mate

    Got it? i think i was trying to explain it too much i screwed up the notation.

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  6. Gio

    … its a nice checkmate. no?

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  7. scum bucket

    Bishop to G5 right. Fischer always tried to keep a knight alive, he called bishops “weak” in the end game, however, working together…

    Yes, a nice mate, I hate wasted moves, especially when I am the mouse.

    The new notation makes much more sense than the old, but I haven’t conversed chess in decades.

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  8. lol

    and that’s why I don’t play chess… Of course, were I in that situation, I would have just moved my peices around a few times and figured it out… had I been good enough to get there.

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