Grotesque Chess: A Single Queen Beats The Whole Black Army

February 23, 2023 NHaselton Chess Lectures

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In this video I am covering another grotesque chess problem composed by Hungarian electrical engineer and chess composer Otto Blathy!
In grotesque chess White fights with a very small force against a much larger black army. This chess problem is not an exception and White wins with only a single Queen! With King and Queen cooperation White avoids stalemate and wins!
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Ottó Titusz Bláthy, The Chess Amateur (2) 1922-08
White is winning
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This position in Forsyth-Edwards Notation (FEN) is:
1K4Q1/2n5/8/8/k7/1p4p1/1pp1pppp/2rbrqbn w – – 0 1
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