16 MAY 1958, Page 30

Chess

By PHILIDOR

No. 153. Specially contributed by H. AHUES (Broiler))

BLACK (10 men) WHITE (8 men)

WHITE to play and mate in two moves: solution tog! week. Solution to last week's problem by Aizikowia' Kt—B 5, no threat. 1 . . . K x Kt; 2 Q—Kt 4. 1

K x R; 2 Q x Q R. 1 . . . Kt any; 2 Q x K

I ... Any other; 2 R x Q P. Good 'incomplete bloc": problem, though the need to provide for I . K x g; makes the key fairly easy to find, and it is perhaps 11 slight pity tha so many defences are met by 2 R X F.