[Retros] Ka3# SEMI-SPOILER

Noam Elkies elkies at math.harvard.edu
Fri Jan 1 21:22:04 EST 2016


Eric Angelini <Eric.Angelini at kntv.be> writes:

> It took me 5 min to solve this beautiful pb.
> But I think that I was helped by the fact that 
> the other stipulation ("Ka5 does the job too") --
> is a huge hint!

Indeed that hint was not provided in the chessbase article,
and most of the time I spent solving the puzzle was trying to
mate a Kb6 or Kb7 until I thought of going the other way...

> Anyway, best ZOIG to all!

:-)
--NDE


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