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- From: 506-5054%wwiv@tweekco.uucp (Craig Jefferies #506 @5054)
- Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
- Subject: PAPAL CHESS
- Message-ID: <1bf4wwcp511@tweekco.uucp>
- Date: Fri, 25 Dec 92 14:07:11 GMT
- Lines: 33
-
- For this post on Christmas day, it might be appropriate to
- include a chess problem by the present Pope, John Paul II.
- In Kostyev's _From Beginner To Expert In 40 Lessons_, page
- 43, he mentions that a Polish chess magazine said that the
- Pope is very fond of chess and even composed a few problems
- in his youth. Does anyone have any other compositions or
- full chess games by the Pope? Here's the mentioned problem:
-
- White to play and mate in 3:
-
- +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
- | | | | | | | | | 8
- +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
- | p | |WP | | | | | | 7
- +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
- |WR | | |WP | | | | | 6
- +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
- |WP | | | | | | | | 5
- +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
- | k |WP WB | | | | | | 4
- +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
- | | |WK | | | | | | 3
- +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
- | | | | | | | | | 2
- +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
- | | | | | | | | | 1
- +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
- a b c d e f g h
-
- Solution: 1. c8=N! Ka3
- 2. Nb6! axb
- 3. axb mate
-
-