Grasshoppers and fairy conditions 1

CCM devotes considerable space to h#2 with grasshoppers and nightriders and thus I naturally wonder which special effects may be worked out with use of grasshoppers under various fairy conditions. I decided not to restrict myself this time only to helpmates in two, but to provide wider range of stipulations. Incidentally, this file contains only h#2 Circe, but later content will be more varied.

Milan Legisa feenschach 1979	a) 1.Bb2 Gxb1(Bc8) 2.Rxb1(Gb8) Sxc5(pc7)# b) 1.Bc3 Gxd3(Sg8) 2.Rxd3(Gd8) Sxd4(pd7)# Very good analogy in all moves fully exploiting combination of grasshoper and Circe. Especially mating by antibattery reborn of black pawn is delicious.

h#2 (4+9) Circe grasshopper b3 b) c6 -» d4

Adrian Storisteanu British Chess Magazine 1977	1.Rd3 c3+ 2.Gaxc3(pc2) cxd3(Ra8)# 1.Rb3 c4+ 2.Gxc4(pc2) cxb3(Ra8)# Albino in 2 solutions (!) or "how to avoid capture of my damn pawn?".

h#2 (5+12) Circe 0+5 grasshopper 2.1.1.1

Friedrich Chlubna Die Schwalbe 1979	a) 1.Sgf6 fxe4(pe7) 2.Qxf4(Gf8) exd5(Sg8)# b) 1.Rg6 Gf6 2.Qxf3(pf2) fxg3(pg7)# Again mates by antibattery using reborn black pieces with less unified strategy in other points - but using a knight what is more difficult to handle - everything compared to Legisa's work.

h#2 (3+9) Circe grasshopper f4 b) black Bg8

Comments to Juraj Lörinc.
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