Try: 1.Sf5? Bb2 2.Sd6 Bxa1 3.Sb5+ Kb2 4.Kd2 stalemate Key: 1.Sf4! (thr. 2.Sd3) Bxf4 2.Sf5 Be5 3.Kd3 (thr. 4.Bd1) Bxd4 4.Sd6 (thr. 5.Sb5#) Bxa1 5.Sb5+ Kb2 6.Kd2 d4 7.Sd6 d3/ka3 8.Sc4#
Comments:
The composers describe the repeatedly sacrificed bB as a "Siegfried" bishop - but I don't know my Wagner! Also a Kling try, Roman decoy and model mate in Meredith (J.G. Grevatt). Elegant Meredith with a good sacrificial key and attractive line of play. It is adorned with a fine try and elegant refutation (J.A. Coello Alonso). Good study-like problem requiring accurate play on both sides (L. Belcsak). [The term "Siegfried" was first used by the German expert Karl Fabel in Die Schwalbe in 1936 to denote a black piece that is immune because stalemate would result from its capture. The eponymous hero of Wagner's music-drama, Siegfred knows no fear and is unharmed by the fire surrounding Brünnhilde when he scales the mountain on which her father Wotan has condemned her to sleep (J.M. Rice).]
BCPS AWARD: Moremovers 2007:
Judge: H.P. Rehm
1st Prize: Steven Dowd, Joaquim Crusats & Mirko Degenkolbe. The bB must be forced (unusual kind of Roman decoy) to capture Pd4 in order to remove the stalemate after the incarceration of the bB (Kling). Good idea well constructed.
