12 June 2020

A Greco Composition

This position is presented as mate in 17 moves by Antonius von der Linde in Geschichte und Litteratur des Schachspiels (1874), where he credits Gioachino Greco as the composer. Komodo 13 fails to confirm the forced checkmate, but there is no doubt that White wins with correct play. Shift the White king one square to the left and you have the position about which József Szén wrote with the solution in the 1830s (the player on the move wins in Szén's position).

White to move

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