3rd June 2019

Selected by Michael McDowell

Karl Thomann (after Friedrich Chlubna)

Rätselvolle Schachaufgaben, 1980

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Mate in 3

A three-mover illustrating a sharp idea. It was an achievement to improve the construction of a problem by as fine a composer as Friedrich Chlubna.