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Bruno's Chess Problem: 03/21/2024
F.H.Deacon, English Chess Problems, 1876
Mate in 5(****)
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1. Nf6! ... 2. Qxg5#
1... Bxf6 2. Nc6+ Kd5 3. Nb4+ Ke5 4. Ke3 ... 5. Bh2#
3... Kc4 4. Be6+ Bxe6 5. Qxe6#
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- 2024-03-21 13:59:20, by problemist
- "The supreme task [Aufgabe] of the physicist is to arrive at those universal elementary laws from which the cosmos can be built up by pure deduction. There is no logical path to these laws; only intuition, resting on sympathetic understanding of experience, can reach them."
Albert Einstein (1879-1955) From “Motives for Research,” a speech delivered at Max Planck’s sixtieth birthday celebration, April 1918. Reprinted in Ideas and Opinions, 226, as “Principles of Research.” See CPAE, Vol. 7, Doc. 7
First published in "The Illustrated London News", 2 Aug 1851 (393). One may think about 1. Kd3? but this is too slow. The key is 1. Nf6 with the short threat 2. Qxg5#; on 1.. Rxf6 2. Qxg5+; on 1.. Bxg8, Rg6 a short mate by 2. f4+ Kxf4, gxf4 3. Bh2#, Nf3#; on 1.. Bxf6 the main variation 2. Nc6+ Kd5 3. Nb4+ 5. Qxe6#, Bh2# or 2. Qc8 (dual). A pioneering problem but lacking a theme making it hard to solve, so for today's readers and solvers it is just a demanding calculation exercise.
Frederic H. Deacon (* 1829, † 10.1875 in Bruxelles) Belgian composer.
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