20th January 2014

Selected by Steve Giddins

Viktor Chepizhny

1st Prize, StrateGems, 2011

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Helpmate in 3
2 solutions

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!