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Bruno's Chess Problem: 11/17/2024
U.Degener (2 solutions)
Mate in 2(***)White to play
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 1... Rg2 2. Qe7# 1. Rd6! ... 2. Qe7# 1... Bxc4 2. Qh7# 1... Bd4 2. Rxd4# |
- 2024-11-17 06:33:08, by problemist
- "There is then no analogy whatever between the operations of the Chess-Player, and those of the calculating machine of Mr. Babbage, and if we choose to call the former a pure machine we must be prepared to admit that it is, beyond all comparison, the most wonderful of the inventions of mankind."
Poe stating his arguments that Maelzel's Chess-Player was a hoax. "Maelzel's Chess-Player," Southern Literary Journal (April 1836).
Edgar Allan Poe (* 19.1.1809 in Boston, † 7.10.1849 in Baltimore). In October was the 175th anniversary of his death.
"Wenn dem Menschen seine Augen nur geöffnet würden, so sähe er überall Gott in seinem Himmel, denn der Himmel stehet in der inneren Geburt." Aurora oder Morgenröte im Aufgang (1612)
Quoted by Gotthard Fuchs (* 1938) in his article "Biblisch und magisch - Vor 400 Jahren starb der Schuhmacher, Mystiker und Theosoph - oder einfach "Christ" - Jakob Böhme" in "Christ in der Gegenwart," No. 47, 17. November 2024, p. 6.
Jakob Böhme (* 24.4.1575 Alt Seidenbach near Görlitz, † 17.11.1624 in Görlitz). "Another place where Böhme may depart from accepted theology [..] was in his description of the Fall as a necessary stage in the evolution of the Universe. [..] According to F. van Ingen [1933-2021, Dutch editor and scholar of German literature] to Böhme, in order to reach God, man has to go through hell first." (Wikipedia) Today is the 400th anniversary of his death.
Troll, 1996, Special Prize. The two solutions are intended. In the set we have 1.. Rg2, Bxc4 Bd3#, Re5# The keys are the white Grimshaws 1. Rd6 (2. Qe7#) and 1. Bd6 (2. Qh7#). Now there are changed mates on 1.. Bxc4 2. Qh7# in the first solution and on 1.. Rg2 2. Qe7# in the second. Also threat mate and real mate are exchanged in the two phases, on different black defenses, which is called a Pseudo LeGrand. Reprinted as No. 309 in Degener's collection of his own problems "Matt - 900 Schachaufgaben," udo degener verlag, Potsdam 2011.
Udo Degener (* 23.11.1959 in Nordhausen) German composer and Grandmaster, see wikipedia de, it, lv. "Udo Degener is a poet and a publisher but also a remarkable twomover and selfmate composer. He has published many chess problem books, among which "50 Jahre Dombrovkis Thema" (2007) containing 1234 problems achieving the Dombrovskis theme (now out of print). He is also the current holder of the "Albrecht-Sammlung", the twomover database collected by Hermann Albrecht and now including 156000 problems."
Since the opening in October 2000, I had published online more than 6650 free chess problems. If you want more details, look at my chess figures pages.
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