
How to Cook in Chess
By GM Lubomir Kavalek
Last year we published a chess study composed by Ladislav Prokes and Oldrich
Duras, but as pointed out by Prof. Noam Elkies, the study was "cooked."
Recently, we learned that a Slovakian player, Ivan Novak, discovered the same
dual solution already in 2008. Both Elkies and Novak composed new sound versions
of Prokes's study, removing the black pawns and eliminating the original solution.
But prof. Elkies took it further: he resurrected Prokes's solution, kept all
pawns on the board and just moved the white king one square. His elegant creation
is published here for the first time.
Here is the original Prokes/Duras version. The white queen chases the black
king counter clockwise around the board and creates a mating net with a quiet
pawn move. But there is a problem....
Note that in the replay windows below you can click on the notation to
follow the game.
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