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Chess by Clif Sherwood Sun, Mar 4, 1928 – 24 · The Los Angeles Times (Los Angeles, California) · Newspapers.com
Chess by Clif Sherwood Sunday, March 4, 1928 The Los Angeles Times Los Angeles, California L.A. Times Problem No. 18...
Posted by Bobby Fischer's True History on Thursday, October 22, 2020
L.A. Times Problem No. 18 by A.C. White, Litchfield, Ct. The world's greatest problem authority improvised this for original publication in the Los Angeles Evening Express (September, 1922) and now Walter L. Koethen of Corona del Mar (who has complete file of Express column and is keeping complete file of our Times Column) suggests reprinting of this curiosity. Counting each move of the released intervening piece (in a check by discovery) as a different check, this contains only twenty-six black checks--count em! Probably a record. White mates in two.
FEN 4r3/Q3bp2/3p4/PR5q/nBk1Kp2/1R6/Bp2n1r1/7b w - - 0 1
Key: Q-1R6/Qa6. Permitting 27 black checks, or if pawn promotion to Q or B is counted separately, then 28 black checks.
