Thank you, Julia, thank you Shankar and Raju! Birthdays may be fairy sometimes!
All bishops changing color! Super theme for Annan chess!
quartet active and a couple of passive victims of two figures
You are right. I got confused though in two solutions the reappearing piece does not check.
Unfortunately the second and third solutions are not thematic for the Vito Rallo JT. The mate in the second solution…
Could have been sent to Vito Rollo jubilee tourney.
Nice variety; orthodox mates by unorthodox methods. Pity that the 3rd mate (Rd4#) is the only one not a model.
Excellent presentation! Is the same task possible with a neutral Rook?
In each mate the wB/wS that does not give mate does guard duty instead. In (a) there are switchbacks by…
This is the theme of the Vito Rallo 80 Jubilee tourney: the piece captured on Black's last move gives mate…