COOK

Term used by chess composers, (synonym : destroyed). A problem is said to be cooked when mate can be obtained in fewer moves than specified. Also applied to problems with impossible position or having no solution or having more solutions than intended by the composer. BCM states that the term was used by Kling and had no connection with E.B. Cook. Some decades ago it was commonplace the publication of cooked problems, but now the problems are checked by computers (for example : programs Fancy and Popeye) and the Cooked problems are almost extinct.