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greenpawn34

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This was posted in the 'Puzzles & Posers' think it should get an airing here.

White to play and mate in 12 moves.
Just click play and enoy it. It's all forced.

Composed by O.T. Bláthy.
Don't you just wish you could produce something like this

Grampy Bobby
Boston Lad

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Originally posted by greenpawn34
This was posted in the 'Puzzles & Posers' think it should get an airing here.

White to play and mate in 12 moves.
Just click play and enoy it. It's all forced.

Composed by O.T. Bláthy.
Don't you just wish you could produce something like this

[pgn]
[FEN "8/1nq5/bppp4/1p1k1K1N/1rrp3b/2pp2p1/8/n7 w - - 0 1"]
[SetUp "1"]

{--------------
. ...[text shortened]... 6. Ne6+ Kd5
7. Nf4+ Kc5 8. Ke4 d5+ 9. Ke5 Bf6+ 10. Ke6 Nd8+ 11. Kd7 Rb1 12. Nxd3[/pgn]
Nothing short of incredible! Thanks.

n
Ronin

Hereford Boathouse

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I think of Tim Krabbe's short story Master Jacobsen where he is working on the Bottomless Pit problem.

wolfgang59
Quiz Master

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too good

Now I'm waiting for SwissGambit to show us how that position was arrived at!

S
Caninus Interruptus

2014.05.01

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Originally posted by wolfgang59
[b]too good

Now I'm waiting for SwissGambit to show us how that position was arrived at![/b]
Start at a position before any pawn captures are made, and it's pretty easy to show the position is legal:

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