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White to play and mate ( 5 ) Dual solution
Again from Pritchard , and again from a win by M . Leoncini , after 1 . d4 2 Nc6 , Nf6 3 . Bg5 , e4 , Nf3 4 . Nxd4 , e6 , Ke7 , Nxf3 +. After some thought I managed to solve it , but found on looking at the solution that Leoncini played something completely different ; Pritchard doesn ’ t mention the dual solution . So White to play and win in two different ways .
* * * Now for some slightly harder ones . Solutions next issue :
Problem 5 .
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White to play and mate ( 7 )
Again from the 1995 correspondence tournament , via Variant Chess , this was the tournament winner ’ s only loss , and also the subject of a contest for readers of the magazine .
Peter Coast - Paul Byway Corr , 1995
1 . e4 2 . Nc6 , d5 3 . Qg4 , Qxc8 , Qxd8 + 4 . Kxd8 , dxe4 , h5 , Nf6 ( theory !) 5 . d4 , Bg5 , Kd2 , Bxf6 Bxe7 + ( N ) 6 . (?) Bxe7 , Bh4 , Bxf2 , Bxd4 , Kd7 , e3 +
Problem 6 .
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White to play and mate ( 7 )
This and the next problem are from |
Variant Chess , Vol . 1 , No . 1 , |
January-March |
1990 |
( article |
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Malcolm Horne ). |
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Problem 7 .
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White to play and mate ( 9 )
I wasn ’ t able to solve problem 6 or 7 myself . I ’ m still not quite sure how I missed 6 , since I had all the elements and thought I ’ d tried every permutation , but I was nowhere near on 7 .
Problem 8 .
All the previous problems involve immediate mate , but one of the
attractive elements of PR is that there is much more to the game . It has been described as combining the precision of problem solving with competitive play , and often a player is faced with the problem of what to do if an immediate mate does not seem possible . With that in mind , here is a position that is partly based on a correspondence game , but is a new composition for this issue . As with any new analysis there can be holes , so I ’ ll leave it as an openended question : how do you evaluate this position with Black to play on move 12 ? If my solution is correct , there are some twists and turns , so be warned .
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Black to play ( 12 )
Happy solving !
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