[Retros] Sam Loyd's Cyclopedia of Puzzles

[Николай Белухов]

 Here's one more:

I. Vereschtagin, 1992
http://www.janko.at/Retros/d.php?ff=1B1Q4/2pp4/1RpkpR1b/N1p2n2/1B2Kpr1/3ppp2/2b1r1q1/7n.htm
Who has more mates?

At first, it seems that White has four ways to mate in one and Black - five, but of course that's not really the case.


> Removing Pe7 also results in an

impossible pawn configuration

As for interesting pawn configurations, this strongly reminds me of problem 16 from Fabel's masterworks:
http://www.janko.at/Retros/Masterworks/Part2.htm

Best wishes,
Nikolai 


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