The Los Angeles Times Chess by Clif Sherwood Sunday, January 08, 1933 Los Angeles, California L.A. Times Problem No....
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L.A. Times Problem No. 337 by S. Boros, Hungary. First prize. Brisbane Courier twenty-eighth international composing tourney, 1932. White mates in two.
FEN 1b1N1n1B/1Q3P2/B7/4P3/2rkN1K1/5p2/1n1Pp3/2RR4 w - - 0 1
Key: N-KB6/Nf6
The Los Angeles Times Chess by Clif Sherwood Sunday, January 08, 1933 Los Angeles, California L.A. Times Problem No....
Posted by Bobby Fischer's True History on Wednesday, March 17, 2021
L.A. Times Problem No. 338 by C.S. Kipping, England. Manchester City News, 1911. White mates in three.
FEN k7/8/N1N5/3B4/K7/8/4p1r1/8 w - - 0 1
Key: K-R5!/Ka5
If R-N; 2. N-Q4ch. If P(Q)ch; 2. K-N6. If K-N2; 2. N-K7ch. The 'try' 1. K-N5 defeated nearly all the solvers. 1. K-N5 occupies a square needed for the N to use to mate after R-N; 2. N-Q4ch. Or after R-N; if 2. K-N6, R-QB!
Herewith another brilliancy handed down to posterity by the late F.D. Yates of England. Played several years ago in a British championship tourney.
Hubert Ernest Price vs Fred Dewhirst Yates
BCF-ch 16th (1923), Southsea ENG, rd 6, Aug-18
Queen Pawn Game: Stonewall Attack (D00) 0-1