Meson Chess Problem Database

Home
Latest Additions
- #2
- #3
- #4
- #5
- Stats
Books
- All composers (SLOW)
- By initial letter
Magazines
- PID
- General
- Matrix
- All sources/quoters (SLOW)
- By initial letter
- Awards
- Composers
- Decades
- Quoters
- Sizes
- Soundness
- Sources
- Stipulations
- Years
Contact
Back to BDS Website

Problem Display

PID: 252968 (bB2K3/8/1bp1k3/6Pp/4P3/1N1np3/2R1Q3/3r3r w - - 0 1)

Grupen, Alfred

Die Schwalbe, 1965

bB2K3/8/1bp1k3/6Pp/4P3/1N1np3/2R1Q3/3r3r

#3

7 + 9

SOLUTION

SOUND
Sets
- 1...Bd4
  - 2.Sxd4#
- 1...Ba5
  - 2.Sd4#
- 1...Bc5
  - 2.Rxc5
    - threat
      - 3.Sd4#
    - 2...Sxc5
      - 3.Sxc5#
    - 2...Sc1
      - 3.Re5#
    - 2...Se1
      - 3.Re5#
    - 2...Sb2
      - 3.Re5#
    - 2...Sf2
      - 3.Re5#
    - 2...Sb4
      - 3.Re5#
    - 2...Sf4
      - 3.Re5#
    - 2...Se5
      - 3.Rxe5#
- 1...Bd8
  - 2.Sd4#
- 1...Sc5
  - 2.Qc4+
    - 2...Rd5
      - 3.Sd4#
- 1...h4
  - 2.Qg4#
Keys
- 1.Rc5!
  - threat
    - 2.Sd4#
  - 1...Bxc5
    - 2.Sd4+
      - 2...Bxd4
        3.Qa2#
  - 1...Sxc5
    - 2.Qc4+
      - 2...Rd5
        3.Sd4#
  - 1...Bc7
    - 2.Bxc7
      - threat
        3.Sd4#
      - 2...Sxc5
        3.Sxc5#
      - 2...Sc1
        3.Re5#
      - 2...Se1
        3.Re5#
      - 2...Sb2
        3.Re5#
      - 2...Sf2
        3.Re5#
      - 2...Sb4
        3.Re5#
      - 2...Sf4
        3.Re5#
      - 2...Se5
        3.Rxe5#

FEATURES

NOT CLASSIFIED

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).