[Retros] Christmas Puzzles of Stuttgarter Zeitung

Jens Guballa jens at guballa.de
Mon Dec 22 09:57:45 EST 2025


Dear retro friends,

The chess column of the /Stuttgarter Zeitung/ (run by Harald Keilhack) 
has published a set of retro chess puzzles.

In the sign of the retracting a move, this year's Christmas puzzles are 
presented, as always, compiled by Werner Keym.
By retracting a move, chess men that have already been captured can come 
back to life, and if necessary, a (pawn's) promotion can be reversed.
As usual, it should always be checked whether there are multiple 
solutions. The solution will be published in next week's edition of the 
newspaper.

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Bernd Schwarzkopf

White retracts a move and checkmates in three moves instead. (5+1)

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Werner Keym, Stuttgarter Zeitung 2005

White retracts a move and checkmates in two moves instead. (5+2)
a) diagram
b) Bh8 -> f8

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Jens Guballa

White retracts a move and checkmates in one move instead. (6+5)

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Have fun solving!

Jens
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