MESON Chess Problem Database

Problem Display
PID: 197804 (7K/8/5k2/1N2n1bB/5p2/2N5/8/1Q6 w - - 0 1)

Anonymous

Illustrated London News, 1868

(First published on Sat Feb 22 1868)

7K/8/5k2/1N2n1bB/5p2/2N5/8/1Q6

#3

5 + 4

14986 White-Hume Collection 2019

SOLUTION

  • SOUND
  • Tries
    • 1.Qg6+?
      • 1...Ke7
        • 2.Qd6#
      • 1...Sxg6+!
  • Keys
    • 1.Qf5+!
      • 1...Kxf5
        • 2.Sd4+
          • 2...Kf6
            • 3.Sd5#
      • 1...Ke7
        • 2.Qxe5+
          • 2...Kd7
            • 3.Qe8#
          • 2...Kd8
            • 3.Qc7#
            • 3.Qe8#
          • 2...Kf8
            • 3.Qg7#
            • 3.Qe8#

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).