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THE HASTINGS CHALLENGER No. 8
SOLUTION
White to play and mate in 2
Sir Jeremy Morse
The Problemist, 1964
Key: 1.Be8 waiting. Now 1…Kc4 is met by 2.Qc3 mate, whilst a random move by the black rook (say 1…Rd8) allows 2.Kb3 mate. Instead, the rook has no less than five different moves
(“corrections”) to defeat the 2.Kb3 mate, but they all allow something else: 1…Rd6/Rd4/Rd3/Rd2/Rd1 2.Qc3/Qc6/Kxd3/Kxd2/Kxd1 mate.
Sir Jeremy Morse, who recently celebrated his 80th birthday and is still very active in the chess problem world, is a true polymath – banker, adviser to every British Chancellor between 1964 and 1997, chairman of Lloyds Bank during the heyday when it sponsored the Lloyds Bank Masters, crossword expert and also the man after whom TV detective Inspector Morse was named! Such is the calibre of people you can expect to meet in the chess problem world!
I hope you have enjoyed the problems presented over the past week. If you would like more information about chess problems, check out the British Chess Problem Society website at
www.theproblemist.org, or contact Steve Giddins, via the congress website.
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