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		<title>Problem 781: Francesco Simoni - Helpmate</title>
		<description>Discuss Problem 781: Francesco Simoni - Helpmate</description>
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			<title>Francesco says:</title>
			<link>http://kobulchess.com/en/problems/originals-2016/1069-francesco-simoni-helpmate.html#comment-9587</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Another observation. The guard abandonment in problem 781 may not please, but in helpmates it is certainly easier to make self-blocks, rather than pure guard abandonments, since in the first the moves are forced and in the latter they must be specified.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Francesco</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2018 06:40:58 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Francesco says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Also. Note that in 781 no piece moves twice in B1, W1, B2 and that moves are performed on the whole by 12 different units. This IMHO means the strategy is complex, certainly not poor.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Francesco</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2018 06:32:09 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Francesco says:</title>
			<link>http://kobulchess.com/en/problems/originals-2016/1069-francesco-simoni-helpmate.html#comment-9559</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ Simple keys certainly do not beautify a problem, but it can not be said thay diminish its value. In this problem three black pieces are involved in the double pins and in the dual avoidance. I did not see how to implement more complex strategies in B1 and it is very much that I have succeeded in specifying the three complete solutions.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Francesco</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2018 08:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Francesco says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ This was the first matrix I had found. But I could not find a correct position in two moves.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Francesco</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2018 07:55:06 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Rodolfo Riva says:</title>
			<link>http://kobulchess.com/en/problems/originals-2016/1069-francesco-simoni-helpmate.html#comment-7679</link>
			<description><![CDATA[To#7. "... a problem must be judged in its whole." Fully agree, trivial black moves throughout the solution detract a lot in hms of any lenght.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Rodolfo Riva</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2016 11:17:30 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Francesco Simoni says:</title>
			<link>http://kobulchess.com/en/problems/originals-2016/1069-francesco-simoni-helpmate.html#comment-7678</link>
			<description><![CDATA[The cyclical dual avoidance is generated by the direct unpins. 1.bxa2 Qb5 2.gxh2 Sxf2‡	(2.Sg7? 2.Rxd6?) 1.bxa5 Rxa5 2.Sg7 Sxg3‡	(2.Rxd6? 2.gxh2?) 1.fxg5 Rxg5 2.Rxd6 Sxc3‡(2.gxh2? 2.Sg7?) It is truly dual avoidance: each unpinned piece guards two of the threee squares of mate in turn and this specifies B2.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Francesco Simoni</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2016 08:19:07 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Francesco Simoni says:</title>
			<link>http://kobulchess.com/en/problems/originals-2016/1069-francesco-simoni-helpmate.html#comment-7677</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ H1.5 is not enought, it's obvious to search always a B1 move, also when the B1 piece does nothing in all ather solutions. I think that to move a piece with the simple purpose of taking a guard could be a weakness, but a problem must be judged in its whole.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Francesco Simoni</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2016 08:11:30 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Seetharaman Kalyan says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ Yes. It has a similar idea but not an anticipation I think.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Seetharaman Kalyan</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2016 17:49:01 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Francesco Simoni says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ When the same piece move twice to take a guard, I could consider it a weakness, but not certeanly a diluted H#2. A problem should be judged for the whole content, and Vitaly's problem, like mine, is appreciable in its Whole.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Francesco Simoni</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2016 16:10:18 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Vitaly Medintsev says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Yes, I agree that my h#2 is a diluted h#1.5 because the first black's move is not sufficient but I don't consdider the genre h#1.5 quite sufficient, too.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Vitaly Medintsev</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2016 15:18:32 +0000</pubDate>
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