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Thema Danicum

No. 111, July 2003 - SOLUTIONS

9160 - Eyjólfur ?#8220;. Eyjólfsson

1.b4 a5 2.Bb2 a4 3.Bxg7 a3 4.Nxa3 Ra4 5.Rc1 Rxb4 6.Ba1 Rb1 7.Nxb1.


9161 - Henrik Juel

1.h4 c5 2.h5 c4 3.h6 c3 4.hxg7 cxb2 5.c4 h5 6.c5 h4 7.c6 h3 8.c7 h2 9.cxd8=N hxg1=B 10.Rh4 bxa1=Q 11.Rc4 Rh3 12.g4 Rg3 13.Bh3 Nh6 14.gxf8=R+.


9162 - Unto Heinonen

Cooked by several solvers.

The intention is Ceriani-Frolkin with four R-promotions and no promoted men in the diagram:

1.h4 a5 2.h5 a4 3.h6 Ra5 4.hxg7 h5 5.d4 h4 6.d5 h3 7.d6 h2 8.dxe7 d5 9.g4 d4 10.g5 Bh3 11.g6 Rg5 12.f4 f5 13.Nf3 Nf6 14.g8=R Rg1 15.g7 Kf7 16.e8=R Bc5 17.Re3 Qd6 18.Rc3 Nbd7 19.Ra8 Re8 20.g8=R Re3 21.Rg4 fxg4 22.f5 Se8 23.f6 Kg6 24.f7 Kh6 25.f8=R Qg6 26.Rf6 dxc3 27.Rb6 cxb6 28.Ra5 bxa5.

Cook by Ryan McCracken:

1.h4 d5 2.h5 d4 3.h6 a5 4.hxg7 h5 5.f4 h4 6.f5 h3 7.f6 h2 8.fxe7 Bh3 9.g4 f5 10.g5 Nf6 11.Nf3 Kf7 12.g8=B+ Kg7 13.e8=B Ra6 14.Bb5 c6 15.g6 Kh6 16.Bb3 cxb5 17.Ba4 bxa4 18.g7 Bc5 19.g8=Q Ne8 20.Qb3 Re6 21.Qc3 dxc3 22.d4+ Re3 23.d5 Rg8 24.d6 Rg1 25.d7 Qg5 26.d8=Q Qg6 27.Q8d4 Nd7 28.Qg4 fxg4