BDS & Jörg Kuhlmann
Probleemblad, 1998
#3
GRASSHOPPERS a1, b4,
b8, e1, h1, h6, h7; d8
1.Kd7! (2.Ke6 & 3.Sf5#) 1...Gf6 2.Ge6 (3.Ge5#) Qe2 3.Qe3# Qd2+ 3.Sxd2# 1...Gd6 2.Gc6 (3.Gd5#) Qg2 3.Qf3# Qxc3 3.Sxc3# 1...Qh2,Qf2 2.Gd4+ axb4 3.Gxb4# 1...Qg2 2.Gd4+ axb4 3.Gxb4# 2.Qf3+ Ke5 3.Qf5,Sc6,Sg6#
A problem that illustrates, in the first two variations, the specific grasshopper mate with a checking queen adjacent to the black king guarded by a grasshopper and with the hurdle over which that grasshopper guards itself unable to capture the checker as it would then become a hurdle over which the black king would be checked.
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