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Help Suggest Chess Bucket List Challenges

Can you win KBB + KN? Or KNN + KP? Or KQ vs KR? And KBN + K?

Trapping your opponent's queen in 10 moves is a massive challenge.

I know many grandmasters can't win KBN + K, including the Women's World Champion.
That’s a pathetic alibi list and shameless advertising for your twitch.

You should put more effort into the list if you wanna attract viewers.

The topic is promising, yet it would’ve been better to have an empty list compared to this. The list in its current state is sucking the life out of me to be honest.

I’d suggest stuff like: smothered mate somebody OTB, play chess on mountain top (at least 2000m), finish a blindfold chess game with a stranger on public transport. Stuff that’s kinda hard, kinda exciting but might still be doable for non-professionals. Beating titled players in 10 moves is about as likely as winning an OTB tournament playing Stafford gambit with black. You can accomplish it online if they mouse slip, or OTB if they get disqualified or make a titanic blunder but all you can do to influence it is playing as many games as possible and improving rating as high as possible to get more titled pairings. So basically become a chess pro or die trying, how silly is that for a bucket list?
Ok, I think there was a misunderstanding because I only mean this to be an online challenge. Of course, many of the items are unlikely and rely on opponents blundering, but by playing many games online (especially bullet), it can happen.

For example, Magnus Carlsen got checkmated in 8 moves:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTYSViN9208

And even Andrew Tang:



In this game, Daniel Naroditsky resigned in an equal position:


I once managed to checkmate Gotham Chess in 9 moves:

lichess.org/streamer/crew64

As for trapping opponent's queen in 10 moves, there are many opening traps that can allow you to do that.

#2, all those endgames are technically winning, the hardest part is to get them in a real game. I learned the basics to win most of them with a high probability.

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