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Problem 382: Anatoly Stepochkin - Fairy (Koko)

anatoly stepochkin(17.04.2014) Fairy original by Anatoly Stepochkin with nice Echo mates after two white castlings.





382

1…Rd1 2.Bg2 0-0 3.Bh1 Rf7 4.Ke8 Rd8#

1…0-0-0 2.Be2 Rdf1 3.Bd1 Rf7 4.Kg8 Rh8#

Echo mates (Author)


Koko Chess (Contact Chess): a move is legal only if the arrival square is adjacent to any piece, this applies also to the capture of king (check, mate).
 

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+1 #1 Kjell Widlert 2014-04-19 20:15
The author tells only a small part of the story. The role of Bf1 in giving Black something to do and in determining the order of the white moves is a stroke of genius (or luck, or both).

Note that the reason for 0-0 is to give the bB a tempo move (Bh1). The reason for 0-0-0 is different (to open d1-f1), but there is a tempo motif here, too:
1...Ke2? 2.Bg2 Raf1 3.?? Rf7 etc.

So I think this position is a real find!
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