[chessmind] Dennis Monokroussos: The Readers Write: A Problem for Problemists

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Posted by Dennis Monokroussos:
The Readers Write: A Problem for Problemists
http://chessmind.powerblogs.com/posts/1214529724.shtml


   From Ken Smith, by email:

     I enjoyed catching up on the [1]Dowd - Crusats puzzle you offered
     recently. For me one of the pleasures of the position was White's
     ability to threaten a different mating move on each of four
     successive moves. This makes me wonder if there have been games or
     puzzle positions that created the opportunity for even more
     successive different mate threats than the four move sequence given
     here.

   My suspicion is that there are such problems (and if there aren't,
   they can be composed fairly easily by qualified problemists) - but I
   really have no idea. Fortunately, there are problemists (like Dowd)
   who read this blog, and they can probably answer this. If no one
   replies after a day or two, I'd suggest contacting Tim Krabbé through
   his great [2]Chess Curiosities website. (If you do wind up contacting
   him and he responds, please drop me a note with the results.)

References

   1. http://chessmind.powerblogs.com/posts/1213237824.shtml
   2. http://www.xs4all.nl/~timkr/chess/chess.html