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Problem 340: Zlatko Mihajloski - Helpmate

mihajloski(14.02.2014) Helpmate longmover by the macedonian maestro Zlatko Mihajloski.





340


1...e3! (e4?) 2.Bf7! e4 3.Bxa2 e5 4.Bf7! e6

5.c1R+ Ka2 6.Rh1 exf7 7.Rh7 f8Q#

Slowly Excelsior and switchback of bB on f7 in miniature form. (Author)
 

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+1 #1 seetharaman 2014-02-14 17:26
Beautiful problem showing white and black promotion and excellent motivation for bishop switchback! What is Parallel Excelsior?
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+2 #2 Diyan Kostadinov 2014-02-14 17:56
Ram, I received the authors comment on macedonian, which has some similarity to bulgarian, so I translate it as I understand the comment. But now I realize that I make one mistake. I translate the macedonian "Usporen" as the bulgarian "Usporeden", which is "Parallel" in english (Which mean that both sides make parallel the Excelsior and the Switchback). But now I saw that "Usporen" mean "slow, delayed, slowly" (on english). So the author do not use it as a Parralel Excelsior and Switchback, but as a Slowly Excelsior...
It's now corrected.
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+1 #3 seetharaman 2014-02-15 10:58
Indeed it is slow. White has to lose a tempo and only the pawn could do it. Very nice!
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+1 #4 Kjell Widlert 2014-02-15 11:58
This is a real find! The matrix in the a1 corner has been used many times, and the play normally starts c1S, Sb3, axb3 (and often leads to an AUW) but this R promotion combined with a slow Excelsior seems new.
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