Well Laco, as a very general principle, your 3 examples are not desirable in any genre. However, the completeness of…
To Nikola and Georgy: Of course both of you are right - if it considers this a general statement. But…
A simplified reasoning might be that there's help-play where Black mates White in his n-th move but after being forced,…
Our remarkable Wcct-9 entry (HS#4) was placed lower due to the fact that a white piece in each phase was…
I had not intended to write that the problem of superfluous officers. I just wanted to open a debate on…
Principles Economy of the material in the HS are not unanimous. How to evaluate the fact that the black officers…
That was exactly my thought, Joost!
The paradox of compositional economy: to become more economical position it is necessary to add artificial material ...
Yes, position with white pawn h6 is better.
Isn't this basically the same discussion as black 'duals' in selfmates?