I entered the weekend not expecting to find time to do this set, but I'm glad I carved out a chunk of this morning to do it. Really tremendous set of puzzles. Some of the older known variations (Chess Battleships, for example) solved very nicely while the new additions like Tapa and Fillomino were phenomenal. I simply wish I didn't make my classic Tapa error (thinking I was done before the whole thing was connected) on the first go around. Thanks Nikola!

Edit: Oh, and on a general site comment, the "discuss" button at the top of the results page should open in a new tab (if possible) and not load directly on the same page. At least if you are enforcing the 30 minutes penalty. Since now I have to wait 30 minutes to look back at the results again although I got a quick glance.

Edited by motris 2010-12-12 11:49 PM

Another enjoyable set - I will now endeavour to complete them! My answer for ChessDoku doesn't seem to have registered (submitted with about 5 minutes to go) - unless I got it wrong and it therefore isn't appearing in my results section.

Congratulations to Ulrich, Thomas and Phillipp for topping in Puzzles & Chess.
Ulrich finished all puzzles in incredible 47 minutes ( may be because he is strong Chess player :-)
They are the only 3 players to complete all 10 puzzles.

We had 81 0+ scores out of 113 participants. The general puzzle difficulty level was bit higher than few previous tests, that might explain the unusual high number of 0 scores.

As everyone mentioned, the puzzles were very very well written and most of them were innovative too.
Thank you so much Nikola for the wonderful set of puzzles!

It looks like a connectivity, there is no entry registered in database for ChessDoku.

Yes, we'll have that next time.
But it is definitely best to get rid of the '30 minutes constraint'

Congratulations Ulrich, Thomas and Philipp!
Thank you all for your participation. I'm glad you enjoyed the puzzles which I made traveling back from the WPC in Poland. Once again I thank the hosts LMI and test solvers Rade, Goran and Zoltan.

Nikola

Edited by Nikola 2010-12-13 1:30 PM

I loved the puzzles created by Nikola. I went for most of the top point puzzles and had 52 points from these puzzles. Towards the end I got so engrossed in one of the puzzles that I forgot to even submit my solutions :)

That explains one of the 0's. Great puzzles with cool logical steps. In each of them I was getting a feeling as though someone was leading me to a solution.
Thanks for the wonderful puzzles.

I had a chance to solve most of the puzzles before the test. In each of the puzzles, the application of Chess Rules was extremely well applied.
Even for easy puzzles (like Hitori, Minesweeper), one has to apply the Chess rules throughout solving.
I also liked that fact that in most puzzles chess rules led the opening, while in some (i.e. Sudoku) I could start with standard sudoku rules, but the chess pieces placement decided final solution.

I am not able to open the puzzle book pdf file with password "chessMess". I wonder where the problem could be...

KrtekHonza: The password is chessMESS. We'll get it corrected on the erroneous page soon.

Corrected.