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Bruno's Chess Problem: 10/13/2025
S.Shuster, LaPresse, 1899
Mate in 3(**)White to play
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 2... Kd8 3. Qd7# |
- 2025-10-13 08:04:26, by problemist
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Originally published in Ország Világ, 4 Aug 1888. Tanagra with four pieces, but still challenging to solve. A mate has to be prepared for the K-flight to d6. The good key is 1. Kb4 zugzwang, with the variations 1.. Kc7 2. Qb5 Kd6, Kd8 3. Qc5#, Qd7#. In the same year 1888 an anticipation by Kohtz & Kockelkorn was published: Sonntagsblatt für Jedermann aus dem Volke, 6 May 1888. However, the mates already appear in a problem of Josef Kling, London Magazine, 1860. The most popular rendering of these mates is due to William A. Shinkman, The Times Literary Supplement, 8 Jan 1904. These three problems are reprinted as No. 566-568 in Werner Speckmann's "Mattaufgaben mit drei und vier Steinen - 1. Teil: Zwei- und Dreizüger" (2nd edition, 1986).
Zsigmond Schuster (* 28.4.1861, † 2.10.1910 in Sopron) Hungarian composer. He published "A sakkföladvány-költészet műszabályai," Budapest, Athenaeum 1908, the first Hungarian treatise on the theory of problem chess. It is based on the work of J. Berger and J. Pospíšil.
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