MESON Chess Problem Database

Problem Display
PID: 190880 (8/p1pp3P/Kbpp1p2/3k1P2/3P4/3PP3/3BPP2/8 w - - 0 1)

Borders, Reginald W

Western Daily Mercury, 1916

(First published on Fri Jun 2 1916)

8/p1pp3P/Kbpp1p2/3k1P2/3P4/3PP3/3BPP2/8

#3

9 + 8

15239 Valois Notebooks 2019

SOLUTION

  • SOUND
  • Sets
    • 1...Ba5
      • 2.h8Q
        • threat
          • 3.Qh1#
          • 3.Qg8#
  • Tries
    • 1.Bc3?
      • threat
        • 2.e4#
      • 1...c5
        • 2.e4+
          • 2...Kc6
            • 3.d5#
      • 1...Bxd4!
    • 1.h8Q?
      • threat
        • 2.Qh1#
        • 2.Qg8#
      • 1...c5
        • 2.Qh1#
      • 1...Bxd4!
  • Keys
    • 1.Bc1!
      • 1...Bxd4
        • 2.e4+
          • 2...Kc5
            • 3.Ba3#
          • 2...Ke5
            • 3.f4#
      • 1...c5
        • 2.e4+
          • 2...Kxd4
            • 3.Bb2#
          • 2...Kc6
            • 3.d5#
      • 1...Ba5
        • 2.h8Q
          • threat
            • 3.Qh1#
            • 3.Qg8#
      • 1...Bc5
        • 2.e4+
          • 2...Kxd4
            • 3.Bb2#

FEATURES

NOT CLASSIFIED
HTML5 logo

Developed and maintained by Brian Stephenson.
Implemented with HTML5, MySQL, Perl (with, inter alia, CGI::Simple, HTML::Template & XML::LibXML) & CSS/Javascript (jQuery, Bootstrap & DataTables).