by SwissGambit on Oct 30 2013 05:56 | 4017 views | 1 edit | Last edit on Oct 30 2013 06:07
Plachutta Power!
An Interference Theme
Interference is a popular motif in chess composition; it's popular enough that we have named several different forms of it. Here's how this one works.
Say you have two pieces guarding two key squares...
by SwissGambit on Sep 08 2010 04:34 | 7005 views | 1 edit | Last edit on Sep 08 2010 04:35
Excellent, though the warden to himself as the inmates groaned trying to solve the three brain cramping puzzles he had dug up for solving. The only embarrassment had been the complete failure of the prison guards to invent a fourth problem to torment them further.
The problems were so hard that only one inmate among the mass of them was able to find a solution to each. The reign of terror continued the next day....
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2Kb4/7B/1p1p2N1/4pPPp/R1P1k1qQ/3p1N2/8/1n3RB1 w - - 0 1
2Kb4/7B/1p1p2N1/4pPPp/R1P1k1qQ/3p1N2/8/1n3RB1 w - - 0 1
Mate in ...