chess-The Oxford Companion to Chess - First Edition by David Hooper & Kenneth Whyld

A pionccr problem by an unkroNn conposer,
Deuache Schach.eiluhg, 1858 On hn lasr molc
Black cannot havc played his king so hc musthave
advln.cd hn c'pawn- and lhis must ha,e come
fr.m .? otherwne Whilc would have been in
check illegally. Ttc key. denonstrably l.Cat. n 1
dxc{ ep+. lll...Kd5
2 Nl2.
7n Musical Wotul,la59(l). Loyd published lhe
lollosing probled: w(c6. WQa6, BKe8, RRa8.
BPar, BPcr. Whitc matesin tso by 1Oa]1in rcplt
Black cannor castle because hn last move musl
have been nade *ith his kine or his rook. This is
lhe lirst problen ro indi.atc thal castlingcould bc
thc subject oi retro-aflalylicai problcms.
ru %&. mE
ru mr%,
ffi wrw
rr_ n '%t
RIBLI 281
lad is sxid ro srand i. rctro{ralenare. when r
legal posilion is subjected to ierrogradc analysis
one variation ol {hlch lelds back to retro
stalemate rhis is prool rhar one of rhe retrcted
REVERSED BENONI. 687. lbe w'Nc
REVERSEDGRIINFELD, nane usedoccasionally
tor thc c^1^hN oPrNINa and sone lariations ollhe
RELERSED OPENTNG, an opcnnre in Nhich
Whne .ommcnces with a serics ol moves rorc
commoDly used by Black
REY\OLDS VARIATION. ?0, sound altack
AgAiNSt tbcMIRANVABIATNTN Of thE AUEEN,SCAMB]T
Declined i.fioduccd by the English player Arthur
Reynotds (l91lH3), *ho published hls analysh in
The Soulcnn problen conposed b, Loyd lor the
...,\i.n of rhe Ne* York Chcs A$ocialions
annual meeli.g, 1894. AII the nissing 6en wcrc
caprured by pasns. by White on e3, d4. c5. b6. a7.
a.d b3. by Black on g6 lnd 14. Blacks last dole
cannot hare been madc by any ofhn pieces (nonc
had a squarc to come lron) nor by his pasns at 14,
e6- orb6 (the fi6t because thisDawn.ame fromE5,
thc othe6 because his bishops cane out Iong
belore). Therelorc Blacki iast 6ove Nas mad. by
h$paqn at f5. Ttisparn cannol navc cqme fiom
16. lor ihen Whne would halc been in REno
shrrM^E (his pieces are locked in, his pawns at
a7, b4, and g5 came lron b6, al. and 94
iespe.livcly. and his p.*n al bl sas moved long
aeo to release hn dark bhbop). Thus n is Proved
thal Black s last move Nas Plf i5, and whilc-s.
belore that. Rf6-96. The key is gxf6 cp+, and
nate follows 1 . . . Ki5 2 Rg5+. |h. interesl oI
solvers in all sucb problcms lies in u.ralelling fie
pan: the solulion h olten mundane. (See also
PERPET-AI RITROARBS'ON. )
T. R. Dnqson and W. Hunds