No.1180
James Quah (Singapore)

JF-LOGO-1

Original Fairy problems
JF – 2017(I): January – June


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No.1180 James Quah
Singapore

original – 03.01.2017

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white kc8 se7g6 qh4 pg4 bf2b1 rb3d6 black ke4 pf4f3c2c6b6 qna4 rc5 bb2

#2                                                 (9+9)
Quintessence a4


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Luce Sebastien
Luce Sebastien
January 4, 2017 13:11

Quintessence=Knight ZigZag in Winchloe !
A much better name to understand the piece !

Geoff Foster
Geoff Foster
January 7, 2017 23:28

Beautiful triple avoidance (a dummy piece on c3 would allow 3 mates). 1…QNc3 pins the wRd6, while the other defences open lines of the bQN.

Juraj Lörinc
Juraj Lörinc
January 8, 2017 23:09
Reply to  Geoff Foster

Sorry, but in my view this is not triple avoidance, rather cyclical dual avoidance.
E.g. defence 1…Rc3 carries two errors, closing of QN and B lines. One of them is (QN closing) compensated for by opening additional line, i.e. avoided.
The same is true for each thematical move to c3 – two lines are closed, one closing is neutralized by additional dual avoidance effects.
In this case, the triple avoidance would be shown e.g. by three other pieces moving to c3, with all three lines properly closed and each move avoiding two of mates.

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