A you versus the Count Dracula problem. There are a few known variations on this theme.
This one was part of a Christmas Quiz from The Scotsman Weekly’ 24th December 1927.
You are White, Count Dracula is Black. You are playing for your soul.
The Rules
If you lose then Count Dracula gets your soul.
If you win then Count Dracula gets your soul.
A draw and then Count Dracula gets your soul.
White to play.
I give a clue in the blog by way of an RHP game.
Then instead of a ‘Dates with Old Mates’ section I give a few of my disasters
(with, of course, the pretty lame and pathetic excuses of how and why I lost.)
Finally a recent master game from Reykjavik 2022 with a unique twist.
Neither was I, just him and his Duck friends. My chess study is covered in feathers
and I'm finding duck eggs all over the place. I suppose that is better from where
I normally see them...on the scoreboard next to my name.