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: 81695 (7n/n3B1N1/1r1pR3/1p1p2NK/2b2kpp/5p2/5PrP/8 w - - 0 1)

Macleod, Norman Alasdair

Mat, 1982

7n/n3B1N1/1r1pR3/1p1p2NK/2b2kpp/5p2/5PrP/8

#3

7 + 12

6455	The Chessboard Adventures of Norman Macleod	1996

SOLUTION

SOUND
Sets
- 1...Rg1
  - 2.Re3
    - threat
      - 3.S5e6#
    - 2...d4
      - 3.Re4#
- 1...Rxf2
  - 2.Sh3+
    - 2...gxh3
      - 3.Bg5#
- 1...Rxh2
  - 2.Sh3+
    - 2...Rxh3
      - 3.Bg5#
    - 2...gxh3
      - 3.Bg5#
- 1...Rg3
  - 2.Re3
    - threat
      - 3.S5e6#
    - 2...d4
      - 3.Re4#
- 1...Rb7
  - 2.Bxd6#
- 1...Rb8
  - 2.Bxd6#
- 1...Ba2
  - 2.Re1
    - threat
      - 3.S5e6#
    - 2...d4
      - 3.Re4#
- 1...Bb3
  - 2.Re1
    - threat
      - 3.S5e6#
    - 2...d4
      - 3.Re4#
- 1...Sc6
  - 2.Bxd6+
    - 2...Se5
      - 3.Bxe5#
      - 3.Rf6#
- 1...Sf7
  - 2.Sxf7
    - threat
      - 3.Bg5#
- 1...g3
  - 2.Sh3#
- 1...d4
  - 2.Re4#
Tries
- 1.Re1?
  - threat
    - 2.S5e6#
  - 1...d4
    - 2.Re4#
  - 1...Be2!
- 1.Re3?
  - threat
    - 2.S5e6#
  - 1...d4
    - 2.Re4#
  - 1...Rxf2!
Keys
- 1.Bf6!
  - threat
    - 2.Bd4
      - threat
        3.Be3#
        3.Rf6#
  - 1...Rxf2
    - 2.Sh3+
      - 2...gxh3
        3.Bg5#
  - 1...Rxh2
    - 2.Sh3+
      - 2...Rxh3
        3.Bg5#
      - 2...gxh3
        3.Bg5#
  - 1...Bd3
    - 2.Re4+
      - 2...Bxe4
        3.S5e6#
      - 2...dxe4
        3.S5e6#
  - 1...Sc6
    - 2.Be5+
      - 2...Sxe5
        3.Rf6#
      - 2...dxe5
        3.Rf6#

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).