Opgave 63

Nóg een gecomponeerd schaakprobleem, voor we weer naar opgaven overgaan n.a.v. stellingen die stammen uit echt gespeelde partijen.

Van een zeer bekend Nederlands schaker is zegge en schrijve één schaakprobleem bekend.

Opgave: wit geeft mat in twee zetten!

De oplossing eind volgende week op Alberts SchaakBlog (samen met die van opgave 62).

Schaken in de literatuur (4):

"But what has happened?" "The old story, Watson. A treacherous friend and a fickle wife. It would appear that Amberley has one hobby in life, and it is chess. Not far from him at Lewisham there lives a young doctor who is also a chess-player. I have noted his name as Dr. Ray Ernest. Ernest was frequently in the house, and an intimacy between him and Mrs. Amberley was a natural sequence, for you must admit that our unfortunate client has few outward graces, whatever his inner virtues may be. The couple went off together last week - destination untraced. What is more, the faithless spouse carried off the old man's deed-box as her personal luggage with a good part of his live's savings within. Can we find the lady? Can we save the money? A commonplace problem so far as it has developed, and yet a vital one for Josiah Amberley."

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"He was a miserable miser who made his wife so wretched by his niggardly ways that she was a ready prey for any adventurer. Such a one came upon the scene in the person of this chess playing doctor. Amberley excelled at chess - one mark, Watson, of a scheming mind".

Fragment van: The adventure of the Retired Colourman.

Uit: Conan Doyle, Arthur: The case-book of Sherlock Holmes. - Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1962. - 254 p. - Oorspr. uitg.: 1927.