january 21 2003

The Maestro's word

I am often reproached for not looking for 2 moves mats, under the pretext that they are too easy. It's true that all my life I've been mainly interested in problems in 3, 4 or more moves. It's thanks to Thierry Manouck (French vice-champion 1980) that I started to look into it, after the challenge he had given us to solve any 2# in less than 5 minutes. It's crazy how this constraint makes things more interesting!J pospisil

Let's keep the good habits. Blake's 3# was in "La Revue des Echecs" n°1: twenty years already... Then a "bohemian" classic. The 4# shows us an increasingly rare case where the experienced human, in resolution, crushes the computer. Precisely, speaking of experience, here is a long problem coming from an author on whom I had always dried up. This one is the first one I managed to solve.

The study of Russian genius is certainly more difficult, but the detailed solution is with you. It is a beautiful demonstration on the theme Queen against 2 doubled pawns. Then a nice pin trap. The game, finally, could be entitled "cold sweats" à la Hitchcock! Our friend Miguel, used to the "Carlos variants" of the 70-80's, will have had the satisfaction of sending a rook against the best player in the world...

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  • Alain

    1 Alain On Tuesday, february 19, 2019

    Le pari de Thierry est plus que jamais d'actualité, voyez le championnat de Russie 2016, où de chevronnés candidats ont rendu copie blanche (3 mats en 2# en 20 minutes).

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