![]() ![]() Rc7 white has to give space to the black king at h2, only to give the double check with his rook and bishop battery. ![]() Bb8!! a clearance for the rook to come on to the diagonal. It is foregone that white has already won but the problemist starts where the player leaves! How to mate in three? After the only black move f3-f2 if the WBh2 moves then black will be in stalemate. One can see the stark disparity in material. It is ideal to start the introduction to problems with one by Sam Loyd, the greatest puzzle maker of all times, who entered the Chess Hall of Fame in USA well before Bobby Fischer. But in the latter part of the twentieth century is shed its banal terminology and gradually evolved as 'chess composition' and this branch of chess was given due recognition by FIDE, World body for chess, by awarding GM/IM titles both for solving and composing. Till the early twentieth century chess problems which were difficult to solve were merly regarded as 'chess puzzles'. The composed endgame studies are probably the closest to the game. For a chess player nothing is more satisfying than beating a flesh and blood opponent but a problemist produces a work of art which capsules the essence of myriad mating patterns rarely seen in the over-the-board play and provides delectations to the avid solver. While the game of chess is indisputably the most competitive mind sport in the world, chess problem is destinctly an artistic pursuit. Chess game and chess problem are two different facets of chess. ![]()
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