White to play and mate in 3

National Master Dale

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12 Sep 09 11:32

Kristaps

Kerfufflecopter

In the zone

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14 Sep 09 17:30

Originally posted by Habeascorp
And for completeness sake you ought to post the solution to 2...kf6 trying for the e6 square.

heinzkat

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14 Sep 09 20:05

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Originally posted by Exuma
Give us another then.

Good idea.

White to play and mate in three moves (Jan Dobrusky, Humoristicke Listy 1882)

I am sure GreenPawn will be happy to illuminate us with the story that accompanies this problem.

greenpawn34

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14 Sep 09 21:15

Hi

Jan Dobrusky was the lazy son of a farmer and used to spend all
day sitting under his favorite tree composing chess problems.
This is one of them.

His father got fed up with this so cut down the tree and sold the wood
to a shipyard. With this wood they built the whaling ship Wurzburg.

So if Jan had not so been lazy the Evans gambit might never have
been invented. Isn't strange how things work out.

Exuma

Anansi

Woodshed

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15 Sep 09 15:52

Originally posted by heinzkat
Good idea.

White to play and mate in three moves (Jan Dobrusky, Humoristicke Listy 1882)

[fen]8/1K1p4/3p4/3p4/3P1NQ1/4k3/P6R/8[/fen]

I am sure GreenPawn will be happy to illuminate us with the story that accompanies this problem.

I am stumped. This could take years...

heinzkat

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15 Sep 09 16:27

Originally posted by Exuma
I am stumped. This could take years...

2 minutes if SG happens to enter the building

wormwood

If Theres Hell Below

We're All Gonna Go!

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15 Sep 09 17:16

Originally posted by heinzkat
Good idea.

White to play and mate in three moves (Jan Dobrusky, Humoristicke Listy 1882)

[fen]8/1K1p4/3p4/3p4/3P1NQ1/4k3/P6R/8[/fen]

I am sure GreenPawn will be happy to illuminate us with the story that accompanies this problem.

this is one of those "what's the sound of one hand clapping" kind of problems, right?

Mephisto2

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15 Sep 09 17:38

Originally posted by heinzkat
Good idea.

White to play and mate in three moves (Jan Dobrusky, Humoristicke Listy 1882)

[fen]8/1K1p4/3p4/3p4/3P1NQ1/4k3/P6R/8[/fen]

I am sure GreenPawn will be happy to illuminate us with the story that accompanies this problem.

Rh4 and a douzen of possible continuations

heinzkat