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So, the Big Day has finally arrived - the inauguration of the new SEED scienceblogs homepage and the addition of 24 new bloggers to the stable, including me - yeay!
This week we continue our look at helpmates. This week's problem has very different feel from the two helpmates we have seen thus far. It was composed by Joao Santiago and Nenad Petrovic, back in 1951. The stipulation calls for helpmate in four:
For the past two weeks we have looked at calm, sane direct mate problems. Good stuff, but it's time to mix it up a little. So this week we return to the crazy world of fairy chess.
Last week I introduced the Dombrovskis theme: Black has a certain move which, in one phase of the problem prevents a mate and in a different phase provokes the same mate.
Is that all there is?
The solution is to demonstrate, and demand that politicians "do something"? Fair warning, I doubt you'll like whatever the politicians do, no matter whose politicians they are. Would you support Bev Perdue in suspending elections in North Carolina? The US? Then we could do something about global warming I bet.