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MatPlus.Net Forum Twomovers Mark Adabashew, 1.p 64 1937
 
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(1) Posted by Sarah Hornecker [Monday, Jul 30, 2007 11:55]; edited by Sarah Hornecker [07-08-29]

Mark Adabashew, 1.p 64 1937


(= 11+8 )


Mark Adabashew
64, 1937, 1. Prize
Mate in 2

This was #6 in Pastime of July 23rd where I (for the first time) was the fastest solver. I could even have been faster if I had seen 2.Sd6# in #4 :-)
That day's test should have expired tonight at 0:00 so I'll ask now.

Well, I had some luck in always seeing the correct moves fast but on this problem it's more or less obvious. I found on that day the twomovers were very easy.

To the pastime solvers: What exactly was the try you thought of first? It only took me 52 seconds since the key is more or less obvious. I'll write my thoughts on why it is obvious later when you replied.



I believe this problem is very nicely constructed. What do you think?


[PS: Name corrected thanks to ZK]
[PS, August 29: Name corrected again]
 
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(2) Posted by Zalmen Kornin [Wednesday, Aug 29, 2007 20:00]

A quick test in MPDBS gives 97 results for Adabashev - so almost twenty more than the combinated BS's Meson and GW's CPDBS on-line. This one is given as "Mark ADABASHEV
Concours Grande Russie ST 1936
1. Prize " her in Mat Plus DB S
 
 
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(3) Posted by David Knezevic [Wednesday, Aug 29, 2007 23:08]

 QUOTE 
MPDBS gives 97 results for Adabashev ...

In old "Mat Plus Collections" series 76 problems by Mark Adabashev have been reprinted (Mat PlusNo.15, Autumn 1997) together with an emotional text by A. P. Gulyajev. The one Siegfried quoted here was reprinted there as No.8 with caption "1.pr 64 1937". The entire collection was later converted to PBM format, published on Problemiste site and probably served as a source for on-line services Zelmen mentiones. It is OK, that's exactly what I am doing with MPDBS: collecting everything I can put my hand on.

I am still working on the "outside" sources I have downloaded or copied in other way to my hard drives. All the enormous number of problem I entered myself, including the material that remained after Mat Plus 1994-99, I left for the end (as easier part of the job), so perhaps few more problems by Adabashev may "pop-up".

By the way, there is some 30.000-40.000 duplicated problems among 386.000 whic are already in the base (and only two big sources have been processed so far!). They are all waiting for the next phase of the work (a "house cleaning"or "data fusion", call it whatever you like) when conversion of all the data to uniform format is done - and I am talking about more than half a million records!!!

Interestingly, there is only one duplicate by Adabashev.
 
   
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(4) Posted by Hauke Reddmann [Thursday, Aug 30, 2007 12:25]

I like to issue a general THX for making this available,
even for a short time. I already nailed down a problem I searched
for years.

Hauke

P.S. Siegfried, such doch mal nach "Trecker" :-)
 
   
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(5) Posted by Zalmen Kornin [Thursday, Aug 30, 2007 18:07]

Adabashev, Mark I "Tidschrift vd KNSB", 1936 (= 11+8 )
#2 This one from Meson is not yet in Mat Plus Database (unless I missed it in my search). This scheme for a triple Somov is strong and charming enough, the key is a good find too, but maybe some details could be discussed - No word about the odd set-dual 1...Nxe5 2.Rxe5/ d4-d5, because he could get rid of the black Knight outrightly!
M. Adabashev (v - more economical) (= 11+7 )
#2
 
   
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(6) Posted by Hauke Reddmann [Friday, Aug 31, 2007 13:13]; edited by Hauke Reddmann [07-08-31]

Oh frell, there goes my Schwalbe #9082.
(Although it's still a bit different.)

(= 13+9 )

2#*v 1.Sh2? 1.Sd4!

Hauke

P.S. Admin, could you make a list of keywords for theme search?
I desperately searched for Lewmann, evidently it is either
transliterated differently or called elsewhise.

EDIT: Yup, it's Levman. And Novotny. But the latter is wrong?!
And how can I search Theme H? I don't see a symbol equivalent
to "exact word string H". Finding any theme with a "h" in it
is, eh, pointless :-)
 
   
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(7) Posted by Zalmen Kornin [Friday, Aug 31, 2007 14:29]; edited by Zalmen Kornin [07-09-01]

Following is an humourous problem that shows in a striking way the qualities of Pawn half-battery play with it's special features (double jump, en passant, underpromotion) It's a classic in the happiest meaning of the word - Alain C White would surelly include it in his "Theory of Pawn Promotion", and I'm tempted to apply here the same that Loyd (allegedly) said on a J. Berger threemover: "Even if he had published only this problem, I would regard him as a great master!" (quoting by memory, and with simul-translation, sorry for some possible error while quoting Loyd's statement)

Mark Adabashev "Shakhmatny listok 1939".

(= 5+2 )

White retracts his last move, and gives instead mate in one

(b) the same position one file up; (c) two files up (d) three files up

This one I found in a blog (or something like that) on-line in German - the heading "Vierfach-Rückzüger" can easilly pass as a source - but it's just the description of a 'fourfold move-retreating chess problem' or so

ps. to my former post - yes, it works with wQ and wBh1 enchanged - black Pb3 to h3 too. Actually it would be the right way to show the (v), as in the other form it seems that the interchange of white pieces is necessary, but that's not the case: just ocurred taht I was fancying that with the Ba1 in b2 further a Pawn (b3) could be spared, and left the white pieces in the alternative setting when pasting the forsyth here...

ps2 en passant: Hauke - I'm not sure that the scheme was completelly new in 1936 - who could be ?!

EDIT ps3: Source of the retro quartet thanks to HF
 
   
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(8) Posted by Juraj Lörinc [Friday, Aug 31, 2007 16:59]

Hm, Novotny seems to be all right after all as he seems to be Czech, according to en Wikipedia articles on Novotny theme and Antinin Novotny. (Sorry for not giving links, but they seem not to work with last character ")"...o
 
   
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(9) Posted by Harry Fougiaxis [Friday, Aug 31, 2007 21:49]

@ HR : The name is Semen Levman, you were searching for the german transliteration.

@ ZK : The source of the famous piece by Adabashev is "Shakhmatny listok 1939".
 
   
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(10) Posted by Sarah Hornecker [Friday, Aug 31, 2007 22:10]

Christian Hesse also said Abadaschew 1938 so I think that's a common error.

Here are the links Mr. Lörinc didn't get to work. I didn't find a czech article, sadly...

german article:
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonin_Nowotny

english articles:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonín_Novotný_(chess_composer%29

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novotny_(chess%29
 
 
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(11) Posted by Hauke Reddmann [Sunday, Sep 2, 2007 17:51]

@HF: If it only were as easy as "v" or "w" always (a famous
example from chemistry, where I dwell, is Saitzeff/Zajcev :-),
even the theme names themselves are subject to national
variation. One argument more to make a pull-down theme
button (even if that's work. Well, not mine :-)

Hauke
 
 
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(12) Posted by Vladimir Tyapkin [Tuesday, Sep 4, 2007 08:04]; edited by Vladimir Tyapkin [07-09-04]

Little off topic on Somov theme. The following problem has fourfold Somov. It was composed long before the theme was discovered. Very nice problem with complex matrix and dual avoidance.

D.Boot
"Good Companion",
1914
(= 13+7 )


1.Rh1! ~ Rd1#
1...Bd7 2. Sb4#(c4?), 1...Bf5 2. c4#(Sb4?)
1...Be5 2. Se3#(Rd4?), 1...Bf4 2. Rd4#(Se3?)
 
   
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(13) Posted by Zalmen Kornin [Wednesday, Sep 5, 2007 11:08]

That's really something striking, VT - a prototype and masterpiece in one.
In BS's MESON we find that he was David Booth (Jr), born in November 17th 1887, the above #2 appeared in the March 1914 GC-folder, and that other 17 of his #2 are known, mainly appearing in "(British) Deaf Times"

I know that all the data above is the fruit of Mr. Stephenson's diligence - of course he's aware (like GW or CP are too) that names, dates, places, as the diagrams themselves are of public domain, being from an historical personality, and not from a fictional character (right?!). They are available, with refinments in classification order (chronologically ranged, with King's positions, detailed solution, numbered etc). The recognition of theme is in charge of the researcher, though... A post like Vladimir's above rouses the curiosity for a research, and MESON provides data - Booth the father published some problems, and his (Jr) son has published others - or more probably the name appears sometimes with the (Jr) and others without?! - He will be 120 in November (or much more probably his date of death is still unknown...) - Was he deaf, or just composing problems for the deaf - if there are chess problems for the deaf - no, that's nonsense: a chess problem is a chess problem
 
   
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(14) Posted by Sarah Hornecker [Thursday, Sep 29, 2011 00:00]

I forgot to reply here, it seems.
Well, the primary threat of Black - or the one I saw first - is 1...Qxg2. Now against this White needs a checkmate. It is clear that moving any piece on the upper side of the board acquires nothing as either a battery gets destroyed or g6 is unguarded. The Bc1 and Qg2 also have no useful moves. Neither do Pf2 and Pg6. This leaves White with a single move: 1.h4. And indeed that works since 1...Qxg2 is met by 2.Sfe5 mate.
 
 
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