It wouldn’t be Christmas without a seasonal attempt at chess humour so, by popular(?) demand, we try to recreate last year’s festive fun! This is by Thomas Rayner Dawson and is from the Falkirk Herald in 1914 – if anyone has anything better or more recent (here!), please send it to me and I will publish! As ever, try to avoid silicon assistance – a large glass of something warming probably won’t suffice but will prove more fulfilling.
Merry Christmas to all our readers and contributors, and particular thanks to John Harbour who has more than competently looked after the site during my recent Antipodean wanderings. May all your gambits bear fruit in 2016!
Steve
Dawson’s “Fairy Chess” problems are frequently mind-bending. The really nice thing about this is the simple (when you see it) logic that demonstrates why, in an apparently symmetrical position, there is only one solution