The venue for Society meetings has changed and the directions to it given on p. 126 of the July 2017 issue are incorrect. Meetings are held at the Hall of St. Botolph’s Church, Bishopsgate, London EC2M 3TL. The Hall is set in a small garden behind the church, less than 2 minutes’ walk from Liverpool St. mainline and underground stations.
This week, we return to the helpmate, with a problem which I first saw in Christopher
Jones’ excellent Helpmates column in The Problemist. It shows not only fine
thematic twinning of the two solutions, but some really interesting play as well!
In each solution, we have a Grimshaw move to f4, which is an anticipatory
check prevention allowing another black piece (the Se4 or Se3) to
selfblock and interfere with the bishop or rook from the rear.
Any comments or questions on this problem should be addressed to
Steve Giddins (our Libarian and Archivist) using the 'Contact'
item in the menu on the left.