Problem Chess Art

by Frederic Friedel
7/21/2025 – Last week Problem expert Werner Keym gave us some remarkable chess problems to solve. They were from his latest eBook, Problem Chess Art, which is available to everyone, free of charge. Here today are the solutions of the problems he selected for us. Were you able to solve them?
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From Problem Chess Art

Here are the problems once again – with the diagram engines switched on (fan button):

Solutions

No.20: 1.Bg8! c2 2.Rf7 Ka2 3.Ra7#

No.21: The basic attack 1.Ne3? [threat: 2.Nf5#,Rg4#] is refuted by 1...Bd7! as well as 1.Ne7? [threat: 2.Nf5#, Ng6#] by 1...Bc2! So: 1.Rg2! [2.Ng6+ Kh5/Kh3 3.Ndf4#] 1...Bc2 2.Ne3 Bf5 3.N×f5# as well as 1...Be8 2.Ne7 Bg6 3.Ne×g6#.

No.4: 1.Qc6! 1... a6 2.Rxa6#; 1...a5 2.Ra6#; 1...a7xb6 2.Qa4#; 1...b7xc6 2.Rb8#; 1...c7xb6 2.Qxc8#; 1...Bxd7 2.Qxb7#.

No.27: 1.Kb2! a1Q+ 2.Rxa1 h1Q 3.Qxh1#

No.31: 1.Ra2! b3xa2 2.Bxa2 Kxg6 3.Bb1#

No.38: 1.Rg6! Kh7 2.Rg5 Kh6 3.Rg4 Kh5 4.Kg3#

No.52: 1.Qd5+! Kg1 2.Qh1+ Kxh1 3.Kf2 N any 4.Ng3#

No.46: 1.Bh4! Rd1 2.Bg3 Rc1 3.Bf4 Rc2 4.Bg5 Rc8 5.Bd2+ Rc3 6.Bxc3# or 4...B any 5.Bd8+ Rc7 6.Bxc7#

Here is a link to Werner Keym's eBook Chess Problem Art

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Editor-in-Chief emeritus of the ChessBase News page. Studied Philosophy and Linguistics at the University of Hamburg and Oxford, graduating with a thesis on speech act theory and moral language. He started a university career but switched to science journalism, producing documentaries for German TV. In 1986 he co-founded ChessBase.

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