16.04.2010 – Problem solving is a parallel world next to the regular chess scene. Many OTB players will find the ideas and execution daunting, but the twomove, threemove, helpmate and other varieties of problems have their own addictive beauty. Last weekend the annual European Chess Solving Championship took place at Sunningdale, England. Guess who made a clean sweep of the prizes.
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E H Baird, Pictorial World, 1892
White to play – Mate in two
[d]1B6/4pK2/B1p1P3/1p1k1NpR/7p/2PN3P/1P1R4/Q7 w - - 0 0
W Bruch, Stratagems , 2000
White to play – Mate in two
[d]2NKn2n/2p1Qb2/B1P1Bp2/pPR2PN1/3k1p2/R3bP2/P1P1p3/3rq3 w - - 0 0
I Suvorov, 1st place, Russian Team Champs, 1992
White to play – Mate in two
[d]2K2Bb1/pp1N2b1/Pp5p/3kP2P/P1R3Q1/3p2N1/P1nP4/2R5 w - - 0 0
C J R Sammelius - 1st Pr Memorial P Koetscheid, 1964
White to play – Mate in three
[d]8/3QB3/2pN2p1/KP1kp1R1/1n5r/5b2/3PN2b/5R2 w - - 0 0
M Gromov, 5th Pr Schakhmatnaya Nedelya, 2003
White to play and win
[d]8/k7/2K4Q/8/1r6/q7/7R/8 w - - 0 0
M & R Tomasevic, 7th pl. tt Liga Problemista, 1984
Black to play – Helpmate in two, four solutions
[d]6B1/1R1p2n1/2p5/p2r4/p1k5/Q4K2/npq1r3/2bb4 b - - 0 1
A Pankratiev – 1st pr L'Echiqier Belge, 1983
White to play – Mate in six
[d]b2nr3/2p5/3p2p1/1P6/KPkP4/1Np5/B1P5/N1Q1r1nq w - - 0 0
White to play – Mate in six
White to play – Selfmate in two
[d]7b/2pr4/R1bk1P1p/1pn1Rr2/1BpK1p2/N1Ppp3/q5B1/3n4 w - - 0 0
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