Chess study for the week of Jun 22, 2026: By Johann Sehwers (1868-1940), published in "Rigaer Tageblatt" in 1908. White to move and win. (1/5)
FEN: 6B1/8/N7/8/8/2Kp4/Qp1p4/b1k3n1 w - - 0 1
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Chess problem for the week of Jun 15, 2026: By Philippe Stamma, published in "The Noble Game of Chess" in 1745. White to move and checkmate in three moves. (1/3)
FEN: 8/5K1n/r2p4/4k1r1/4p3/6P1/5N2/3R1R2 w - - 0 1
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Johann Sehwers was a Baltic chess composer, linguist and teacher. Sehwers had an on-again, off-again interest in chess, preferring his studies and career to chess. Despite this, Sehwers created almost 100 studies, 87 of which he published in a collection, "Endgame Studies", in 1922. (2/5)
Mark Babik
Sehwers found the effort of composition without a chessboard very strenuous and, at his wife's request, never attempted it again.
HINTS: The objective of this study is to find the best move sequence giving White a winning advantage…. (4/5)
The study presented here (Number 29 in his book) was composed without the aid of a chessboard. Confined to bed while recovering from a near fatal case of pneumonia, various chess images started appearing in Sehwers' mind so he composed the study by dictating the details to his wife. (3/5)
Philipp Stamma (1705 – 1755), was born in Aleppo, Ottoman Syria, and later lived in England and France, was a chess master and a pioneer of modern chess. His book, "Essai sur le jeu des echecs", originally published in 1737, helped revive European interest in the study of the endgame. (2/3)
Mark Babik
Stamma's book also introduced algebraic chess notation in an almost fully developed form before the now obsolete descriptive chess notation, as espoused by Philidore, had evolved. (3/3)
SOLUTION:
This could be a passed pawn, a captured piece, a better position, or checkmate. It is not always necessary to solve all the way to checkmate. Most studies are best solved with the aid of a chessboard. (5/5)
SOLUTION:
Mountain Pink growing on a gravelly limestone embankment (its natural habitat) on a farm-to-market road near Wimberley, Texas.
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