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Subject: Re: Mate in 5.....A Neat Problem by W. Pauly.....1913

Author: Roy Eassa

Date: 09:13:15 04/02/02

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On April 02, 2002 at 12:01:05, Art Basham wrote:

>From one of my real old chess books - now out of print...!
>
>1. Nc6 mates in 5...! (maybe more than one solution...
>They had no computors back then to check their work...:-)
>
>[D]R7/4N3/7B/8/4k3/1B6/8/7K w - -


1.Nc6 Kd3

[1...Kf3 2.Rf8+ Ke2 a)2...Ke4 3.Bc1 Kd3 4.Re8; b)2...Kg3 3.Bd1 (b)3.Ne5
threatening Bg5(#2) 3...Kh3 (b)3...Kh4 4.Rf3 (b)4.Bf4) ; 4.Bg5 (b)4.Bf4) ;
3...Kh3 4.Bf4; c)2...Kg4 3.Ne5+ Kg3 c1)3...Kh4 4.Rf3 (c1)4.Bf4) ; c2)3...Kh5
4.Bf4 (c2)4.Rh8) ; 4.Bg5; 3.Bc2 threatening Kg1(#2) a)3.Bc4+ Kd1 4.Bd3 (a)4.Nb4;
a)4.Nd4; a)4.Rf2) ; b)3.Nb4 threatening Bc4+(#2) 3...Ke1 4.Bc4 (b)4.Kg2) ;
3...Ke1 4.Bd3 (4.Kg2)]

[1...Kf5 2.Bf7 threatening Ra4(#2) 2...Ke4 (2...Kf6 3.Ra7 Kf5 4.Ra4; 2...Kg4
3.Kg2 threatening Ra5(#2) 3...Kf5 4.Ra4) 3.Ra3 Kf5 4.Ra4] 2.Bc1 threatening
Re8(#2) 2...Kc3 [2...Ke2 3.Kg2 threatening Rd8(#2) 3...Kd3 4.Re8; 2...Ke4 3.Rf8
Kd3 4.Re8]

3.Rb8 Kd3 4.Re8 Kc3 5.Re3#




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