22nd July 2024

Selected by Michael McDowell

Itzhak Talmi

2nd Prize, Israel Problemists’ Association, 1968

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Mate in 3

A problem which contains what some might consider a serious flaw, though it is inevitable in this matrix. The high award would suggest that the judge thought it did not detract from the clarity of the idea.