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2015-12-227:59:25A.Buchanan P1035267 problems solution  update1. b8=S? waiting 1. ... dxe6+ 2. Sf7# 1. ... d6+ 2. Sd7# 1. ... d5+ 2. Dc7# 1. ... c5 2. Sxd7, Sf7# 1. ... Kd6 2. Dc5# 1. ... Sd4/xf4/xg3/c1/g1 2. D(x)d4# But 1. ... c2! 1. Lc2! waiting 1. ... dxe6,Kd5,Kd6 2. Dc5# 1. ... d6,c5 2. Tf5# 1. ... d5 2. Dc7# 1. ... Sd4/xf4/xg3/c1/g1 2. D(x)d4# 1. b8=S? waiting 1. ... dxe6+ 2. Sf7# 1. ... d6+ 2. Sd7# 1. ... d5+ 2. Dc7# 1. ... c5 2. Sxd7, Sf7# 1. ... Kd6 2. Dc5# 1. ... Sd4/xf4,xg3,c1,g1 2. Dxd4/Dd4# But 1. ... c2! 1. Lc2! waiting 1. ... dxe6,Kd5,Kd6 2. Dc5# 1. ... d6,c5 2. Tf5# 1. ... d5 2. Dc7# 1. ... Sd4/xf4,xg3,c1,g1 2. Dxd4/Dd4# 
2015-12-227:57:47A.Buchanan P1035267 problems solution  update1. b8=S? waiting 1. ... dxe6+ 2. Sf7# 1. ... d6+ 2. Sd7# 1. ... d5+ 2. Dc7# 1. ... c5 2. Sxd7, Sf7# 1. ... Kd6 2. Dc5# 1. ... Sd4/xf4/xg3/c1/g1 2. D(x)d4# But 1. ... c2! 1. Lc2! waiting 1. ... dxe6, Kd5/d6 2. Dc5# 1. ... d6, c5 2. Tf5# 1. ... d5 2. Dc7# 1. ... Sd4/xf4/xg3/c1/g1 2. D(x)d4# 1. b8=S? waiting 1. ... dxe6+ 2. Sf7# 1. ... d6+ 2. Sd7# 1. ... d5+ 2. Dc7# 1. ... c5 2. Sxd7, Sf7# 1. ... Kd6 2. Dc5# 1. ... Sd4/xf4/xg3/c1/g1 2. D(x)d4# But 1. ... c2! 1. Lc2! waiting 1. ... dxe6,Kd5,Kd6 2. Dc5# 1. ... d6,c5 2. Tf5# 1. ... d5 2. Dc7# 1. ... Sd4/xf4/xg3/c1/g1 2. D(x)d4# 
2015-12-227:56:37A.Buchanan P1035267 problems solution  update 1. b8=S? waiting 1. ... dxe6+ 2. Sf7# 1. ... d6+ 2. Sd7# 1. ... d5+ 2. Dc7# 1. ... c5 2. Sxd7, Sf7# 1. ... Kd6 2. Dc5# 1. ... Sd4/xf4/xg3/c1/g1 2. D(x)d4# But 1. ... c2! 1. Lc2! waiting 1. ... dxe6, Kd5/d6 2. Dc5# 1. ... d6, c5 2. Tf5# 1. ... d5 2. Dc7# 1. ... Sd4/xf4/xg3/c1/g1 2. D(x)d4# 
2015-12-227:41:47A.Buchanan P1035267 problems comment  update Author's comment: ‘I remember one particular problem I had been trying to compose for months. There came a night when I managed at last to express that particular theme. It was meant for the delectation of the very expert solver. The unsophisticated might miss the point of the problem entirely, and discover its fairly simple, ‘thetic’ solution without having passed through the pleasurable torments prepared for the sophisticated one. The latter would start by falling for an illusory pattern of play based on a fashionable avantgarde theme (exposing White’s King to checks), which the composer had taken the greatest pains to “plant” (with only one obscure little move by an inconspicuous pawn to upset it). Having passed through this “antithetic” inferno the by now ultra-sophisticated solver would reach the simple key move (Bishop to c2) as somebody on a wild goose chase might go from Albany to New York by way of Vancouver, Eurasia and the Azores. The pleasant experience of the roundabout route (strange landscapes, gongs, tigers, exotic customs, the thrice-repeated circuit of a newly married couple around the sacred fire of an earthen brazier) would amply reward him for the misery of the deceit, and after that, his arrival at the simple key move would provide him with a synthesis of poignant artistic delight. I remember how slowly I awoke from an unconscious state of concentrated brooding about chess and in front of me, on the large English chess board of bright yellow and scarlet leather, there was finally the immaculate position, like a constellation just formed. It worked. It was alive.' 
2013-07-0221:59:01Frank Müller P1035267 problems soltxt  updateBS Problemid: 20196 Authors: Nabokov, Vladimir Sources: Chess Problems: Introduction to an Art 1963 Years: 1947  
2013-07-0221:58:49Frank Müller A315 Chess Problems: Introduction to an Art 1963 refsrc   add  
2013-07-0221:58:16Frank Müller Speak, Memory 1947 refsrc   add