To my suprise, most of the participants to the 45th Latvian Chess Solving Championship 2018 failed to solve a very…
Many thanks, Julia, for the new diagram + photo! . At https://juliasfairies.com/problems/jf-1017-0318/, I guess “problem, date, author, country, pieces” should…
Paul, I agree with you, this sequence is not a weakness. . 1) This sequence is virtual and of course…
Here is however a non-unique set play: 1…Rh1-a1 2.e7-e8=S! Ra1-h1 3.Sb2+ Kd5 4.Sc7+ Kc6 and checkmate at move 16. But…
wow! That was pretty fast Shankar Ram! As Julia mentioned it does seem that problems with and without fairy conditions…
When I saw your 1294, I was a bit disturbed by Sc5 (just anti-cook), by Rd7 (heavy) and by “10.Sd8?…
Dmitri, please have a look on this other view, Popeye V4.79 C+ White Pe7 Ka5 Sa4 Black Sh8 Sd7 Pg6…
Thanks, Joost, for mentioning that 11.Ke8-f8 is NOT “the only legal move by White”, as Dmitri asserts. The choice is…
White has another legal move (11. Kd8).
Dmitri, this is another view, Popeye 4.79 C+ White Sd8 Ke8 Ph7 Black Pc7 Kd6 Sg5 Bd4 Pc3 Ph3 Ra1…