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1.Tc2+ Kd1 2.Td2+ Ke1 3.Te2+ een onnodige omweg. (Zie zet 4.) En mat. In EG n° 182 melde redacteur Ed van de Gevel over studie -197- dit: “Becker reacted to the 0800.00 study of Ignace Vandecasteele in the previous ‘Originals’ columm: Ignace Vandecasteele’s study EG 181.17213 has a lot of com- plexity that isn’t revealed in the main line. I wondered why the composer chose to place the wK on f6. White still wins with the wK on the seemingly weaker squares f7 and f8. Curiously, these other placements of the wK create du- als. Ignace found the only dual-free setting for this idea of chasing the bK up the board to h8 and then back to h6 for the mate. One of the duals I looked at in- volved a longer chase before the bK is driven to the corner. I loo-- ked for a way to turn this dual into a new version of the study. See the result below. How did those chess- men end up in the corner? Ignace put them there! I shifted the wK to extend the play, and added pawns to eliminate all duals. (...and of course, I rotated the board 90 de- grees.)” Waarop Ed van de Gevel in Origi- nals colomn (30) reageerde met: “Since Belgium is not know as an earthquake prone country I am sure Richard’s solution to the question how the chessmen all ended up in the corner is the right one. Regarding Ignace’s study I can add that Ignace initially en- tered a study with a longer king hunt which unfortunately had a dual. He decided to keep the stu- dy an aristocrat. Richards study shows the result when you ac-- cept to add pawns to keep the lon- ger king hunt.” Kh3 Ta2 Tb2 / Kc1 Ta1 Tb2 d5 g5 + Kf1 4.Tf2+ Kg1 5.Tg2+ Kf1 6.Taf2+ Ke1 7.Te2+ (7.Kh2 is korter) Kf1 14. Th1+ en mat. Dus nevenoplosbaar. En waarom dan die twee zwarte ‘duds” ? Zie volgende studie: