16th June 2014

Selected by Steve Giddins

Norbert Geissler

Die Schwalbe, 1991

B1k5/1bp5/8/8/3r4/8/2q2p1r/5Ks1

Helpmate in 7

This week’s problem is a longer helpmate, a genre we have not featured for some time. With only a king and bishop to work with, White clearly needs to rely on the black pieces to block off their own monarch's flights. Older hands will probably guess the main feature of the solution.