Help Searching for Test Position
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Help Searching for Test Position
I'm looking for a middlegame test position where the white king is lured out of his safety with starting moves ...Qh3+ or ...Qxh3+ or ...Qf3+ or ...Qxf3+. The sequence involves the white king taking the knight? on g5 (Kxg5) and eventually ending up in a king walk to the 7th/8th rank where he gets checkmated. Can anyone help me finding this, I've searched it here but I'm not able to locate it.
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Re: Help Searching for Test Position
Maybe this
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Re: Help Searching for Test Position
Do you have any original source?
Here's Huntsman's line:
[pgn][Event "?"]
[Site "Talkchess"]
[Date "????.??.??"]
[Round "2"]
[White "super, nova"]
[Black "searched, position"]
[Result "0-1"]
[Annotator "Huntsman"]
[SetUp "1"]
[FEN "r5q1/p2QP2k/1p2p2n/1P2P2b/3pp3/7N/5PPP/2R2RK1 b - - 0 1"]
[PlyCount "21"]
[GameId "2157050970669075"]
[EventDate "2025.??.??"]
[SourceTitle "?"]
[SourceDate "2025.03.19"]
[SourceVersionDate "2025.03.19"]
1... Qxg2+ 2. Kxg2 Bf3+ 3. Kg3 Rg8+ 4. Ng5+ Rxg5+ 5. Kh3 Rh5+ 6. Kg3 Nf5+ 7. Kf4 Rh4+ 8. Kg5 Rg4+ 9. Kf6 Rg6+ 10. Kf7 Nh6+ 11. Ke8 Rg8# 0-1
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Re: Help searching for test position.
Hello Peter:
How I create brilliant king hunt chess puzzles!
Regards from Spain.
Ajedrecista.
I think I found the original source: the author (nickname and avatar) is the same and dates match. Here is the process of composing the puzzle, other than the explanation is with white to play and win, hence a mirror position respect to the puzzle on YouTube:
How I create brilliant king hunt chess puzzles!
cjxchess17 wrote:[...]
In the end, the uploaded version is the puzzle above with reversed colors. [...]
Regards from Spain.
Ajedrecista.
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Re: Help searching for test position.
Hi Jesus, thank you,Ajedrecista wrote: ↑Wed Mar 19, 2025 8:07 pmI think I found the original source: the author (nickname and avatar) is the same and dates match. Here is the process of composing the puzzle, other than the explanation is with white to play and win, hence a mirror position respect to the puzzle on YouTube:
How I create brilliant king hunt chess puzzles!
cjxchess17 wrote:[...]
In the end, the uploaded version is the puzzle above with reversed colors. [...]
Peter.
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Re: Help Searching for Test Position
It was not this position unfortunately, it's a testposition that is difficult for Stockfish and co.
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Re: Help Searching for Test Position
I saw it from 2022 to 2023, it was in a testposition suite. Unfortunately I'm not able to search for these positions cause you need to search for at least 4 characters 
And it's possible, that the initial moves were 1... Qf2 or ...Qxf2 or ...Qg3 or ...Qxg3. But pretty sure they were the ones I initially mentioned

And it's possible, that the initial moves were 1... Qf2 or ...Qxf2 or ...Qg3 or ...Qxg3. But pretty sure they were the ones I initially mentioned
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Re: Help Searching for Test Position
And you don't mean Mihai Neghina's Chase, do you?rj329 wrote: ↑Thu Mar 20, 2025 6:56 am I saw it from 2022 to 2023, it was in a testposition suite. Unfortunately I'm not able to search for these positions cause you need to search for at least 4 characters
And it's possible, that the initial moves were 1... Qf2 or ...Qxf2 or ...Qg3 or ...Qxg3. But pretty sure they were the ones I initially mentioned
[d]4N2k/4PB1p/7P/B1p5/2P5/3q2Pp/1P3P1K/2r5 w - - 0 1
https://chichitza.ro/Chess.html?lang=en&aux=11
Afair it was used in suites as test position now and then too andy maybe starting with one move cut off, so that a new 1...Qxg3+ (instead of 2...) could appear, regards
Peter.
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Re: Help Searching for Test Position
So HTC 99 is modification of this?
[d]7k/4PBNp/7P/2p5/2P5/2rq2Pp/1P3P1K/8 b - - 0 1
Here -Qxg3+ is draw!?
[d]7k/4PBNp/7P/2p5/2P5/2rq2Pp/1P3P1K/8 b - - 0 1
Here -Qxg3+ is draw!?
Jouni