REFLEX-MATE

A chess problem and form of self-mate where black is obliged to mate. White is obliged to mate Black is White makes the wrong continuation.

T.R. Dawson pioneered many themes in the reflexmate. This problem is an early example showing avoidance of White mate. The key is 1.Ke5, and if Black does nothing, White continues 2.Ke4 3.Kf3 and 4.Se2, forcing 4…g1Q mate. Note that 3.Qe5? for 4.Se2 g1Q fails because after 3…Kd8! White must mate with 4.Qb8. Black defends by 1…b5 2.Ke4 Rb6, and now the intended 3.Kf3? fails to 3…Rb8!, forcing 4.Qd7. However 2…Rb6 eliminates the potential queen mate at b8, and White can safely continue 3.Qe5 for 4.Se2 g1Q.

16. “By all means examine the games of the great chess players, but don’t swallow them whole. Their games are valuable not for their separate moves, but for their vision of chess, their way of thinking. Anatoly Karpov
Maybe I had something of Capablanca. Why should I prepare when I have ideas? Svetozar Gligoric
1989 NIC
I think that ACP is a small clique, which gives power to more cliques. Nigel Short
2016
I may be an old lion, but I can still bite someone’s hand off if he puts it in my mouth Wilhelm Steinitz
After an upsetting defeat the best psychology for the next game is a placid draw Dr. Vidmar

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