BRITISH CHESS PROBLEM SOCIETY

Message from the Committee
on the Ukraine Crisis.

Rescued Problem 345

Viktor Chepizhny

The Problemist, 1986

3Q4/2p2K2/3p3p/r4Rp1/3NRbBk/r6P/3p1qPp/4BN1n

Mate in 2

INTENTION: 1.Rxg5? BUT 1...Rxh3!

José Antonio Coello

Correction

3Q4/3B1K2/3p3p/r4Rp1/3NRbBk/r6P/3p1qPp/4BN1n

Mate in 2
(3 white bishops!)

1.Rxg5!      (2.Rh5#)

1...Be3+      2.Sf3#
1...Bg3+      2.Rf5#
1...Bxg5+     2.Bf3#
1...Be5+      2.Sf5#
1...Rf5+,Rxg5 2.S(x)f5#
1...hxg5      2.Qh8#

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