Chess by Clif Sherwood Sunday, September 01, 1929 The Los Angeles Times Los Angeles, California L.A. Times Problem No....
Posted by Bobby Fischer's True History on Friday, October 9, 2020
L.A. Times Problem No. 119 by the late T. Taverner. Mirror of American Sports, February 1885. This is supposed to have a record number of mates for a two mover. Looks like black has thirty-six different answers (defenses) to the keymove, permitting thirty-one distinct mates for white.
FEN 8/1b1Nr1Pn/1p1P3n/ppQ3p1/1r2kPPp/2P5/1PK2RP1/1BB1q2N w - - 0 1
Key: P-N8(Q)/g8=Q