Ninepins

[garykevinware]

In my article, Get In Shape!, http://main.uschess.org/content/view/8496/463, I showed a problem by Alain White, in which the Black king was 'buried' in the center of a 'pyramid'. Here, the Black king is surrounded by all eight of his pawns. How does White penetrate?



C.C.W. Mann Niederlandische Schachzeitung 1907 #4

4 points for sending me a complete variation, at garykevinware@yahoo.com , by next Wednesday. There is also a bonus problem, under Compose Like Beethoven II, worth 2 points, and so, 6 points are possible this week.

[garykevinware]

Here is the answer to last week's problem:
Mann #4-
1 Qa1 d3 2 Qc3 e3 3 exd3 cxd3 4 Qxd3#
1...c3 2 Qa2+ c4 3 Qa5+ c5 4 Qa8#
1...e3 2 Qh1+ e4 3 Qh5+ e5 4 Qf7#

David Dana-Bashian suggested the following problems, as representing the 'Ninepins' theme, one of which he composed.



Theodore Morris Brown Dufresne: Sammlung leichterer Schachaufgaben, v. 3, 1887 #8 White cannot capture any of Black's pawns.



David Dana-Bashian Chess Life March 1988 H# 6.5 White to move first, with Black helping White to mate him, on White's seventh move.

15 points possible, for complete variations to both bonus problems. Send your solutions to me, at garykevinware@yahoo.com , by next Wednesday. I will be posting the regular problem(s), later this evening.

[garykevinware]

Here are the answers to last week's bonus problems:
Brown #8- 1 Nec6+ dxc6 2 dxe3+ fxe3 3 Rh4+ Be4 4 Rhxe4+ dxe4 5 Be5+ dxe5 6 Rxd8+ Nd5+ 7 Rxd5+ cxd5 8 Nc6#



Dana-Bashian h#6.5-
1 Kc1 f4 2 Kb2 f5 3 Kc3 Kf6 4 Kxd3 e4+ 5 Kc3 Ke5 6 d3 f6 7 d4#