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Problem ID: 0022441

19 months ago · Quote · #1
Metal-Gerd

This one is from the Tactics Trainer. And it ist really cool. So I want everybody to see it.
19 months ago · Quote · #2
trysts

Nice!
19 months ago · Quote · #3
jamessaul

Very nice
19 months ago · Quote · #4
CM ilmago

This number 0022441 had the drawback to be completely ambiguous on move 3, because both 3.Kf5 and 3.Kf3 win in the same way, and without that mating finish, it was not at all nicely conclusive. So it had to be deleted.

A much more beautiful version of this problem, with just one single solution, is

tactics trainer number 0041222 :
19 months ago · Quote · #5
sdtmcn

Beautiful.
19 months ago · Quote · #6
SirDavid

Pal Benko showed a number of problems with this theme in the January 2010 Chess Life. If you're a USCF member, you can see it here: http://main.uschess.org/content/view/9959/582/

If not, here's my favorite of the studies, composed by G Kasparian in 1929. Take a look at the movelist for the annotations.
19 months ago · Quote · #7
CM ilmago

Beautiful! That study has a nice sideline, with the same motif playing one rank to the right:

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