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5imon 14-Mar-20, 02:27	Archduke My story involved a horse taking a lady to a cathedral where she then climbed the tower.
5imon 14-Mar-20, 02:28	Canopus1 Yes please to another if you have more.
penelope80 14-Mar-20, 02:32	Wow!5imon,this seems to me a good hint for a chivalric novel!
5imon 14-Mar-20, 04:47	Helpmate in 3 Here is another one Black to move, helpmate in 3 and there are two solutions.
archduke_piccolo 14-Mar-20, 12:39	My story... ... is less ... erm ... romantic. Cavalier Roland to a tower came, where an ecclesiastical personage related where the lady might be found. Helpmates in 3 might be a wee beyond my powers...
canopus1 14-Mar-20, 15:12	Helpmate in 3 - March 14. I have tried to solve this helpmate in 3, for more time of a hour, I have not succeeded. It seems very difficult. I will try again.
5imon 14-Mar-20, 20:33	Hints for helpmate in 3 a) Both solutions have checkmate with a double-check. b) Both involve an Umnov theme, which is (according to the article where I found this) where a piece occupies the square which another piece just vacated. This is a difficult one though. Let me know if you'd like the solutions.
ace-of-aces 14-Mar-20, 20:36	Helpmate = marriage Helpmate is similar to a marriage. That is, after marriage, a couple cooperates each other to raise a big family with many children. In real chess, mating attack is a vicious process to kill the enemy king and end the game. In helpmate, the ending has a desired effect. The opposite is true in real checkmate. Correct me if my interpretation is wrong.
ace-of-aces 14-Mar-20, 21:19	I find a solution with discovered check and not with double check.
5imon 15-Mar-20, 01:11	Do you want to send me a PM with your solution?
5imon 15-Mar-20, 08:49	Ace-of-aces has a nice line where white gets checkmated in a helpmate. The two solutions I was looking for are where black gets checkmated after white's third move.
canopus1 15-Mar-20, 12:02	archduke_piccolo has revealed a solution to me; thanks to this, I found the other one. Very difficult problem.
archduke_piccolo 15-Mar-20, 13:24	A long time... ... it took me to find just the one solution. Actually I found the idea for it having the position set up wrong! I had half an idea of the nature of the second solution, but was unable to imagine the arrangement of pieces that would lead to that solution. Not. Even. Close. Incidentally, that is the approach I take to problems such as these. Try and set up a final position that might be reached in the requisite number of moves. Sort of like retrograde analysis.
canopus1 15-Mar-20, 15:51	@ archduke Your approach is smart. Keep it up. The second solution is perfectly homogeneous to the first, for this reason, after reading your personal message, I easily solved the second solution.
canopus1 15-Mar-20, 16:12	Antonio Garofalo (canopus1) Probleemblad (Nederland/Holland, 2017) 5th Prize Helpmate in two moves, with 3 solutions black side is below. Black move, of course. Being the author of this problem, I am unable to say if it is difficult or easy. You will tell me. But I want to emphasize that difficulty is not the most important property of problems. This problem in particular has qualities that the judge liked, but certainly among these qualities there is no difficulty. The judge knew the solution immediately: the author must communicate it!
archduke_piccolo 15-Mar-20, 16:55	I've found one... Still looking for the others...
canopus1 16-Mar-20, 03:09	Old solutions It's time to give the solutions of the first 3 halpmates. 1. ... Nb7 2. axb7 Rc8 3. bxc8=N# 1. ... Ne7 2. fxe7 Rd8 3. exd8=Q# 1. ... Kf6 2. g8=Q Sf7 3. Qxg6# 1. ... Rb6 2. g8=R Re6 3. Rf8# 1. ... Pd6 2. g8=B+ Kf8 3. Bxd6# 1. ... Rb8 2. g8=N Rd8 3. cxd8=S# four promotions of the Pg7 to Q,R,B,N 1. ... Nd6 2. Rg3 Nd5+ 3. Rc3 Kc6 4. Bb5# 1. ... Kd4 2. Bg8 Bc4 3. Bh7 Kd3 4. Rd6#
canopus1 16-Mar-20, 03:38	Sorry... Exact position. 1. ... Nd6 2. Rg3 Nd5+ 3. Rc3 Kc6 4. Bb5# 1. ... Kd4 2. Bg8 Bc4 3. Bh7 Kd3 4. Rd6#
canopus1 17-Mar-20, 13:10	Is this problem too difficult? (see March 15,)
5imon 18-Mar-20, 08:24	I managed to solve it and have sent you the solutions. Nice puzzle. I found the first two solutions fairly quickly (having not read the question properly to begin with) but it look a little while longer to work out the third even though I had worked out the pattern by then.
canopus1 18-Mar-20, 10:55	5imon and archduke have solved the problem correctly. Well done! Some comments from me later.
canopus1 20-Mar-20, 00:09	Here the solutions To end the discussion on this problem, I want to explain the reasons for the artistic beauty that led the judge to give it the 5th prize. Solution: (moves black, white; black, white) 1.Nb4 Ra1 2.Nxf5 Rg1‡ 1.Bb4 Rd3 2.Bxf5 Rxd4‡ 1.Rb4 Rxa7 2.Rxf5 Rg7‡ The first black move always occurs in the same house, 'b4'. It has the effect of opening a line to the white Rook. The second black move also occurs in the same house, 'f5', and also putting its own piece under nailing. Note the correspondence of the black moves: Knight-Knight; Bishop-Bishop; Rook-Rook. While all white moves are carried out by one piece, the Rook. The mates occur thanks to the nailing. After finding a solution, it becomes easy and intuitive to find the others. But this is not a defect, but an advantage, because it indicates the great homogeneity of the solutions. I hope my english is clear enough. Thank you for the attention you have devoted to this work.
canopus1 28-Mar-20, 00:50	Puzzle - March 28, 2020 Again one Helpmate. Position 1: Yuri Gorbatenko Helpmate in two moves One solution. Position 2: Yuri Gorbatenko Helpmate in two moves One solution. Please solution to me with personal message. [diagram seen by black side] Perhaps this problem could be difficult to solve.
canopus1 07-Mar-21, 08:37	Very quiet this club. I try to arouse interest with a three moves checkmate problem. Antonio Garofalo = canopus1 The Problemist 1997 Album FIDE-Annexe 1995/1997 White move and checkmate in 3 moves Please send solutions by private message only.
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