One Reverend's Idea II

[garykevinware]

Here is some more text and problems from Herbert Grasemann's booklet, One Reverend's Idea.
"The whole thing was like a gold rush. Loveday discovered in 1845, with the critical move, a rich mine, and other gold miners crowded, to also capture a chunk. Until the mid-sixties (1860s), they had succeeded. Then something strange happened. Maybe it was believed that the variations of Loveday's discovery were already exhausted, in any case, the composers turned - aside from the usual imitators and laggards - suddenly to other areas: in the English-speaking countries, the two mover."



J. Paul Taylor Illustrated London News 1875 #2



William A. Shinkman Lebanon Herald 1877 #2

4 points for sending me a complete variation to both problems, at garykevinware@yahoo.com , by next Wednesday.

[garykevinware]

Here are the answers to last week's problems:
Taylor #2-
"After 1 Nd1 (Zugzwang, 1...Re4/Bg5 moves 2 Nb2) Kxd5 allows 2 Ne3, because of the four black pinned pieces. This one was exciting, a hundred years ago."
1...d3 2 Qxe4#
1...Nc6 2 Bxb3#
Shinkman #2-
"Shinkman offers in his famous problem, a very early representation, of ‘cross-flight’ of the Black King (on the four orthogonal neighboring squares) and how to overcome it using two white batteries. 1 Qa7! Kf2 2 Rg4!, 1...Kg3 2 Re2!, 1...Kxh2 2 Rg5, 1...Kg1 2 Rd2."