Composed Problems

Fellow Chess Warriors of Light,

    To complement the new Chess Education Forum and to make use of the Sam Loyd composed problems that Bellerophontis kindly submitted, we are opening this new Forum that will be devoted to composed problems of the "Mate in Two" type.  Since I do not specialize in these types of composed problems, I would appreciate submission of these compositions on this Forum.  Thanks very much!

Nick :-)

Well here I will edit another problem from one of the greatest chess problem composers, Sam Loyd from Philadelphia, editor of "Sam Loyd's puzzle magazine". Samuel Loyd was not interested in the form of the problem but only in the content of it.

In his book "The Chess Strategy" he writes"...a clear checkmate and all the rest cannot be compared with the ideas, the ideas!"

This is one of his problems which has the most unexpected first move you can ever imagine in a chess puzzle

The Steinitz Gambit

Samuel Loyd, Checkmate (1st prize) 1903

The white play and checkmate in 3 moves !

for more reading about this puzzle   https://en.chessbase.com/post/chessbase-puzzles-loyd-s-steinitz-gambit

The next puzzle was composed by Sam Loyd when he was 20 years old especially as a joke for one of his friend Dennis, who was claiming that he could always tell at once which piece is NOT solving the puzzle and does NOT deliver checkmate at the end

Sam Loyd then presented the puzzle one night in the chess club and asked Dennis to tell which of the pieces is impossible to checkmate at the end Dennis took a careful look on the board, he saw a distant white pawn and he pointed that one... but surprising everyone Loyd replied that Dennis have faulted at last 

White play and checkmate in 5 moves  

puzzle title: "Excelsior"                     1861 "London Era"

The mate is delivered with the pawn which starts on b2.

Any problem which features a pawn moving from its starting square to promotion in the course of the solution is now said to demonstrate the Excelsior theme.

Thanks, Bellerophontis, for submitting!  :-)

Nick

 Thank you Nick, I follow with a winning Combination from a real game 

  white play and checkmate in 5 moves with a spectacular combination

Hey Bellerophontis,

    Should I put the solutions up here or send you a private message?

Nick

There's a right answer for every move when you can't find how to start solving the problem if you click on the icon of the idea  "lamp"

and there's the solution if you click on the icon of the "question mark"  

in this way everybody can check his own results

but is better if someone tries very hard before he decides to take help cause these are very difficult problems

Hey Bellerophontis,

    It turned out that I remembered the first one!  I'd seen it before.

Nick :-)

Yes, it was in the other forum you created and you asked me to remove it from there 

Otto Titusz Blathy was a famous Hungarian composer of chess problems expertised in mammouth problems with a huge number of moves.

Here I will post a problem composed for checkmate in 127 moves

and could you believe it?  this is not his biggest one since he has created one with 290 moves and another with 342 moves!

.... it will take me considerable time to create the board I guess...so come back in an hour

Hey Bellerophontis,

    (To your response above before the problems you mounted):

    No, I didn't mean that.   A long time ago a group of chess players at Waltham Chess Club tackled a very difficult composed problem.  This was the one.  I remember the K solution.

Nick :-)

Hey Bellerophontis,

    With lots of errors I got through it.

Nick :-)

May be you can write the number of the move and what kind of errors are these to get an idea?  or  at least one?

Most of it was just trial-and-error with different Q moves, especially checks, until I found the right one each time.  I think the problem stopped about 22 moves in.

xenophon98

oh, i thought you have seen an error in my edited solution because it is supposed to be composed from 127 moves and i created it with 121 moves

Oddly it stopped with "solved" about 20 moves in.

Key 1.Qe1+ (Who cares if this is a checking key? We must find 126 more moves!) Rc1
2.Qd2 Rc2 (We omit writing the forced moves of black: Rc1 Rc2)
3.Qd1+ 4.Qxd3+ 5.Qd1+ 6.Qd2 7.Qe1+ 8.Qe4+ 9.Qxh1+ 10.Qe4+ 11.Qe1+ 12.Qd2 13.Qd1+ 14.Qd3+ 15.Qf1+ 16.Qxf5+ 17.Qe4 (White has cleared the area, only the pawns remain in column-h, which will slowly come down...)

17...h2 18.Qe1+ 19.Qd2 20.Qd1+ 21.Qd3+ 22.Qf1+ 23.Qf5+ 24.Qe4

24...h1=Q 25.Qxh1+ 26.Qe4+ 27.Qe1+ 28.Qd2 29.Qd1+ 30.Qd3+ 31.Qf1+ 32.Qf5+ 33.Qe4 h3 (By repetition of the same mechanism we will reach the following ending)

120...h1=Q 121.Qxh1+ Rc1 122.Qh7+ Rc2 123.Qe4 Bb3 124.Qe1+ Rc1 125.Qd2 Rc2 126.Qd1+ Rc1 127.Qxb3#

Maybe that's why it stopped because it presumed I would get the rest.

Nick :-)