The daily position for Tuesday 1 September 2026. It is still open to solve — the grader reads your whole line, sidelines and evaluation included, before anything here is shown. Cover the solution and solve it first →
White to move. the model predicts 41% at this level.
The solution
53.g6!(not53.♖︎h1?♔︎xg554.♔︎xa4♔︎g655.♖︎e1♖︎xh7=)53…♔︎xh554.g7(not54.♔︎xa4?♔︎xg655.♔︎b5♔︎f556.♔︎c4♖︎xh7−+)54…♖︎xh755.g8=♕︎♖︎a7(55…♖︎h6is more resilient:56.♔︎c5a357.♕︎e8+±)56.♕︎e6♖︎b7+(56…♖︎g7is more resilient:57.♕︎h3+♔︎g558.♕︎g3+±)57.♔︎c5±
53.g6 — the natural move
54.g7 — the natural move
55.g8=♕︎ — the standard move
56.♕︎e6 — most players miss this · worth +1
57.♔︎c5 — almost nobody finds this · worth +1
“hard to find”, “the natural move” and the rest describe how often this move is played by Maia-2, weighted across the 1500/1900/2000 audience the difficulty model is fitted on — a model of human play, not a count of anyone who solved this position.
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What happened at the board
Sarana found it · 1-0
the game ended inside the printed line — full game ↗
The field
94% of the 17 committed lines here found the key move — the model predicted 41% at this level.
Notes from the room
Johncsimmons · 2026-09-01
5pts lost for strange software analysis of QvR where clear reasonable moves pick up the pawns. In my opinion the allowed solution is best only for obscure software reasons between nearly identical worth moves. Boo! :)
5pts lost for strange software analysis of QvR where clear reasonable moves pick up the pawns. In my opinion the allowed solution is best only for obscure software reasons between nearly identical worth moves. Boo! :)