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Problem Display

PID: 217228 (3N2b1/3P1pR1/8/3k2P1/1P3B2/p4p1B/3N4/3K4 w - - 0 1)

Gittins, Frederick Richard

The Weekly Mercury, 1893

(First published on Sat Nov 25 1893)

3N2b1/3P1pR1/8/3k2P1/1P3B2/p4p1B/3N4/3K4

#4

9 + 5

6490	yacpdb	2020

SOLUTION

SOUND
Keys
- 1.Bf1!
  - threat
    - 2.Bc4+
      - 2...Kd4
        3.Sc6+
        3...Kc3
        4.Be5#
  - 1...Kd4
    - 2.Sc6+
      - 2...Kd5
        3.d8S
        threat
        4.Bc4#
  - 1...f6
    - 2.Sc6
      - threat
        3.d8Q+
        3...Kxc6
        4.Qd6#
        3...Ke6
        4.Sd4#
        4.Qd7#
        3.d8R+
        3...Kxc6
        4.Rd6#
        3...Ke6
        4.Sd4#
        3.d8S
        threat
        4.Bc4#
        4.Rd7#
      - 2...Kxc6
        3.d8S+
        3...Kd5
        4.Rd7#
        3...Kb6
        4.Be3#
        4.Rb7#
      - 2...Ke6
        3.Sd4+
        3...Kd5
        4.d8Q#
        4.d8R#
      - 2...fxg5
        3.d8Q+
        3...Kxc6
        4.Qd6#
        3...Ke6
        4.Sd4#
        3.d8S
        threat
        4.Bc4#
        4.Rxg5#
        4.Rd7#
      - 2...Be6
        3.d8Q+
        3...Kxc6
        4.Qd6#
        3...Bd7
        4.Qxd7#
        3.d8S
        threat
        4.Bc4#
      - 2...Bf7
        3.d8S
        threat
        4.Bc4#

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