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Bruno's Chess Problem: 12/04/2025
V.Rudenko, 1st Price, L'Echiquier Belge, 1961
Mate in 2(**)White to play
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- 2025-12-04 10:08:39, by problemist
- "All men, however highly educated, retain some superstitious inklings."
H. G. Wells (1866-1946) "The Invisible Man," 1897.
Shown are some changed and transferred mates in the tries (with one bN pinned) 1. Qh5? (Qxf5#) Ne~, Nxc5+, d3, Rg5 2. Rd6#, Rxc5#, Ne3#, Qxf7#, but 1.. Ng5!; and 1. Rxf6? (2. Rxf5#) Nf~, d3 2. Rd6#, Nxc3#, but 1.. Rg5!; and the solution 1. Qd3 (2. Qc4#) (when both bNs are unpinned, but bPd4 is pinned) 1.. Ne~, Nxc5+, Nf~ , Qxb3 2. Nxc3#, Rxc5#, Ne3#, Bxb3#. According to Meson and yacpdb the problem was not awarded, also it was not selected for "Преследование темы."
Валентин Федорович Руденко (* 19.2.1938 in Yenakiieve, † 2.4.2016) Ukrainian composer and Super-Grandmaster, see wikipedia de, fr, it, lv, ru, uk. "The late Valentin Fedorovich Rudenko was a world-famous composer (no. 4 in the FIDE-Album top of composers with 229 points) considered by some as the best orthodox problem composer. He was also the author of one of the best chess problem composition books ever written "Преследование темы.— Москва, 1983". He proposed the date of January 4th as International Day of Chess Composition. His problems reached space levels when his threemover of Suomen Shakki 1957, 1st prize, was aboard the mission SOYUZ 9 (it is now on display in a museum in Cheboksary)." By profession he was a leading engineer in the Soviet (and later Russian) space program. A recent selection of 9 of his problems with ample commentary appeared in "Phénix" 352-353, Mars-Avril 2024, pp. 13682-13685, in "32 Compositeurs ukrainiens et 32 années d'indépendance pour un univers de 64 cases" by Gérard Doukhan, Alain Pallier, Michel Caillaud, and Laurent Riguet.
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