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2 problem(s) found in 4345 milliseconds (displaying 2 problem(s)). [COMMENTDATE>=20200919 AND S='Schach' AND K='Belén-Thema'] [download as LaTeX]

1 - P1380100
Markus Wettstein
(2856) Neue Zürcher Zeitung 16/6/1968
P1380100
(10+2) C+
#4
1. Sa4! f3 2. La2+ Kc2 3. Sdc3 Kxd3 4. 0-0-0#
play all play one stop play next play all
Krabbe's Reprint: "The search is over - as was to be expected, Hanspeter Suwe found a real anticipation in his archives.

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Suwe adds he does not know the exact date of publication (judging from the photo above, it's a pity that it couldn't be Belén's birthday) and nothing about the author. "It is the same matrix which has also been found by Pérez Carballo and McDowell. The problem by the last one is the best: very good construction with a fantastic key move: 1.Nd1!, a so called AZE (means Anti-Ziel-Element), a term for such a strategic move, created by the Austrian composer Helmut Zajic."
Suwe thinks there might be even older examples and will continue to look for them.

With this information, McDowell found Wettstein's (a Swiss) problem in a book Kunstschach in der Schweiz / Les Echecs artistiques en Suisse" by Hans Henneberger (1980), who comments: "A chess riddle in which one really wouldn't expect castling!"
James Malcom: The first known correct Belen theme directmate. (2020-09-20)
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Keywords: Belen Theme, Castling as mating move, Minimal (s)
Genre: n#
Computer test: Juel: Popeye 4.61
FEN: 8/8/8/1P6/3P1p2/P2P4/1N3P2/RBkNK3
Reprints: 175 Kunstschach in der Schweiz , p. 97, 1980
253 Tim Krabbé's Website 28/7/2004
Input: James Malcom, 2020-09-20
Last update: Dieter Berlin, 2022-09-24 more...
2 - P1380116
Hauke Reddmann
Inselschach 1977
P1380116
(7+2) C+
#3
1. Sa4! Kc2 2. Sbc3 Kd3 3. 0-0-0#
play all play one stop play next play all
Krabbe's Reprint: "Hauke Reddmann informs me that in 1977, when he was 16, he had also composed a Belén."
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Keywords: Belen Theme, Castling as mating move
Genre: 3#
Computer test: Popeye 4.85
FEN: 8/8/8/8/8/1PN2p2/P4B2/RNk1K3
Reprints: 253 Tim Krabbé's Website 8/8/2004
Input: James Malcom, 2020-09-20
Last update: Alfred Pfeiffer, 2020-09-22 more...
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