a beautiful puzzle

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gumpty

White to play and win....when i first saw this i couldnt beleive that white could win this, all black has to do is push his pawn and the white pawn can never queen!

amazing stuff!

semicolon

Umm yeah good puzzle, quite easy to solve

JG27Pyth

Wonderful!

camembert

I remember the first time I saw this study--I had a very similar reaction to you, gumpty. Some studies can get a bit stale with familiarity, I think, but the simplicity of this one is still very strking--it certainly sticks in the mind.

 

It was composed by Heuacker, by the way, and published in the Neue Freie Presse in 1930.

timepass

yes a cool one...seen it few months time back...still remember

kr3481

very nice

coffeemug

Fantastic!

lotus_elise

emmh ok :)