The Retrograde Analysis Corner

diagrammes

No. 118 , July 1996

3569 - Leonid Borodatov
diagrammes 118, 07/1996

13+5. Mate in 4

[6kN/5pPN/5ppB/1KpP4/4P3/3PP3/4P1PP/5B2]

Solution

3570 - Mario Velucchi
diagrammes 118, 07/1996
Ded. Ph. Schnoebelen

5+9. Helpmate in 3

[8/8/8/ppp2n2/P1p1p3/ppk5/P4P2/R3K3]

Solution

3571 - Thierry Le Gleuher
diagrammes 118, 07/1996
(This problem was later found to be cooked)

12+16. Shortest proof game in 40 single moves

[3kr1nr/2ppp2p/1pp5/5ppq/7P/3P2P1/1PP1nP1b/RN1QKBNb]

Solution

3572 - Andrej Kornilov
diagrammes 118, 07/1996

14+10. Last 8 single moves?

[8/2p2pp1/7B/5PPk/4PRrq/P2PRK2/1PP1pPn1/3bN1nN]

Solution

3573 - N. Plaksin and A. Zolotarev
diagrammes 118, 07/1996
(Version of problem 3459, diagrammes 116, 01/1996)

13+13. Add a Bishop and solve the position

[rB6/Q1pp2p1/Rbkpp3/qn5p/BPP2P2/1KRP4/rPN1P3/3b4]

Solution

3574 - Jean-Michel Trillon
diagrammes 118, 07/1996

6+4. Ortho-Reconstruction in 25 single moves (White to move; Sentry chess)

[k1b5/3p4/3P1p2/5P2/K3P3/4P1P1/8/8]

Solution