Chess
Problematic
Raymond Keene
White to play and mate in two moves.
This problem is the first stage in the sixth of the Lloyds Bank British Problem Solving Championships, which aims to find the country's champion solver. Successful entrants for this stage will qualify to com- pete in a more difficult postal phase, the top scorers in which will be invited to take part in the final, to be held in London in January 1985. There will be prizes of £100, £50 and £25 for the leading solvers and a Lloyds Bank trophy for the champion. To compete in the event solve this problem and send your solution, consisting of the key move only, to: Public Relations, Lloyds Bank Plc, 71 Lombard St, London EC3 3BS, marking the envelope 'Chess Contest'. Entries must arrive not later than 30 June 1984. Remember to mark your solution 'Spectator'.
Over the last few years the number of en- tries from outside the UK has grown enor- mously and so a special prize of £50 will be awarded to the highest scoring overseas entry who would have taken part in the final if resident in the UK. The winner and runner-up, plus a third solver nominated by the British Chess Problem Solving Society, will be invited to represent Great Britain in the World Chess Problem Solving Cham- pionship in 1985.
This week I also announce two prizes for endgame study composition. The Alex- ander Rueb Foundation (named after one of the founders and the first president of Fide) is establishing two annual prizes: a) A prize of approx £225 open to com- posers of all nationalities;
b) A prize of £110 for the best studY presented by a chessplayer from a chess- developing country as defined by Fide. The conditions are: a) the studies should not have been published before; and b) not more than three studies per composer MaY be submitted. Entries are to be sent before 31 December 1984 to the President of the Alexander Rueb Foundation, Dr. A.K.P.
Lucas van Leydenlaan 7, 2102 Heemstede, Netherlands. The studies entered for the competition will be publish- ed every two years in a booklet that will be part of the 'Alexander Rueb Series'.
It is with regret that I learn from MBE' British Chess Problem Society of the dead. on 28 March of Comins Mansfield M Thus ended one of the most outstandtm careers in the whole of chess probleill history. During more than 86 Year!: Mansfield received every possible problem, honour, including President of the Flu; Pr9blem Commission and Internationa' Grandmaster of Chess Composition.
Finally, I have received an excellent 10 for review: Leonid Kubbel's Endgite Studies. Priced at £5.50, it can be ordered from T.G. Whitworth, 8, SedleY TaYi° Road, Cambridge CB2 2PW.
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