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Problem Display
PID: 153787 (8/3p4/pp1K2p1/p5P1/k7/Bp1P4/1P6/R7 w - - 0 1)
Penrose, Lionel Sharples
The Times Literary Supplement, 1915
(First published on Thu Nov 25 1915)
#3
6 + 7
| 14986 | White-Hume Collection | 2015 |
SOLUTION
- SOUND
- Sets
- 1...b5
- 2.Bc5#
- 1...b5
- Tries
- 1.Kd5?
- 1...d6
- 2.Kc6
- threat
- 3.Bc5#
- 3.Bxd6#
- threat
- 2.Kc6
- 1...Kb5!
- 1...d6
- 1.Kc7?
- threat
- 2.Kxb6
- threat
- 3.Bc5#
- 3.Bd6#
- 3.Be7#
- 3.Bf8#
- threat
- 2.Kxb6
- 1...d5
- 2.Kxb6
- 2...d4
- 3.Bc5#
- 3.Bd6#
- 3.Be7#
- 3.Bf8#
- 2...d4
- 2.Kc6
- threat
- 3.Bc5#
- 3.Bd6#
- 3.Be7#
- 3.Bf8#
- threat
- 2.Kxb6
- 1...d6
- 2.Kxb6
- 2...d5
- 3.Bc5#
- 3.Bd6#
- 3.Be7#
- 3.Bf8#
- 2...d5
- 2.Kc6
- threat
- 3.Bc5#
- 3.Bxd6#
- threat
- 2.Kxb6
- 1...Kb5!
- threat
- 1.Kxd7?
- threat
- 2.Kc6
- 2...b5
- 3.Bc5#
- 3.Bd6#
- 3.Be7#
- 3.Bf8#
- 2...b5
- 2.Kc6
- 1...b5
- 2.Bc5#
- 2.Bd6#
- 2.Be7#
- 2.Bf8#
- 1...Kb5!
- threat
- 1.Rf1?
- 1...b5
- 2.Bb4
- 2...Kxb4
- 3.Rf4#
- 2...axb4
- 3.Ra1#
- 2...Kxb4
- 2.Bb4
- 1...Kb5!
- 1...b5
- 1.Rg1?
- 1...b5
- 2.Bb4
- 2...Kxb4
- 3.Rg4#
- 2...axb4
- 3.Ra1#
- 2...Kxb4
- 2.Bb4
- 1...Kb5!
- 1...b5
- 1.Rh1?
- 1...b5
- 2.Bb4
- 2...Kxb4
- 3.Rh4#
- 2...axb4
- 3.Ra1#
- 2...Kxb4
- 2.Bb4
- 1...Kb5!
- 1...b5
- 1.d4?
- 1...b5
- 2.Bc5#
- 1...Kb5!
- 1...b5
- 1.Kd5?
- Keys
- 1.Re1!
- 1...Kb5
- 2.Re4
- 2...a4
- 3.Re5#
- 2...a4
- 2.Re4
- 1...b5
- 2.Bb4
- 2...Kxb4
- 3.Re4#
- 2...axb4
- 3.Ra1#
- 2...Kxb4
- 2.Bb4
- 1...Kb5
- 1.Re1!
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