MESON Chess Problem Database

Problem Display
PID: 153970 (K1B5/2p5/2k5/2PNP3/1P6/Pp2PP2/1B6/8 w - - 0 1)

Hawkins, Xenophon

St. Louis Globe Democrat, 1913

(First published on Tue May 6 1913)

K1B5/2p5/2k5/2PNP3/1P6/Pp2PP2/1B6/8

#3

10 + 3

14986 White-Hume Collection 2015

SOLUTION

  • SOUND
  • Tries
    • 1.Bb7+?
      • 1...Kb5
        • 2.Sc3+
          • 2...Kc4
            • 3.Ba6#
        • 2.Sxc7+
          • 2...Ka4
            • 3.Bc6#
          • 2...Kc4
            • 3.Ba6#
      • 1...Kd7!
  • Keys
    • 1.e6!
      • 1...Kb5
        • 2.Sc3+
          • 2...Kc4
            • 3.Ba6#
          • 2...Kc6
            • 3.Bb7#
            • 3.Bd7#
        • 2.Ba6+
          • 2...Ka4
            • 3.Sc3#
          • 2...Kxa6
            • 3.Sxc7#
          • 2...Kc6
            • 3.Se7#
      • 1...Kxd5
        • 2.e4+
          • 2...Kc4
            • 3.Ba6#
          • 2...Kc6
            • 3.Bd7#

FEATURES

NOT CLASSIFIED
HTML5 logo

Developed and maintained by Brian Stephenson.
Implemented with HTML5, MySQL, Perl (with, inter alia, CGI::Simple, HTML::Template & XML::LibXML) & CSS/Javascript (jQuery, Bootstrap & DataTables).