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Chess Problem 1990a7f601

Colin Vaughan & BDS

British Chess Magazine, 1990

8/K3s3/1B3kb1/2s4P/4p1P1/bP6/B4q2/5R2

H#2
(b) bSe7->e5

a) 1.Se6  b4 2.Sg5 Bd4#
b) 1.Sxb3 h6 2.Sc5 Bd8#

Another collaboration from a BCPS residential weekend. Neither Colin not I noticed, pre-publication, that the wR is totally unused in part (b), a serious flaw in a helpmate. The solvers let us know!


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