Saturday, August 25, 2012

Pal Benko, helpmate composer

Multi-time world champion Candidate, Pal Benko, not only composed studies, but also more-movers and problems in chess helpmates. From his book with Silman, the wonderful "My life, games and compositions" comes the first of two twins. Black moving first is to help White to mate him. See the dance of the under-prmoted black rook as it races to strangle his own monarch.

A twin is a second problem with the same stipulation but a slight change in one of the pieces. Here, remove the h4 bishop from the board, and again it is a helpmate in 7 with a different solution

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