October 11th

Raymond C.J. Gevers (11-10-1882 - 11-05-1954) Dutch composer

Source: ChessAntiquarian

Raymond Gevers was a twomover composer in the Good Companion style and a theoretician who wrote "All Change Here! A Treatise on the Change-mate Two-Mover together with a Collection of 325 Examples" with Philip Hamilton Williams (1919). This book includes mutate problems.

Gevers, Raymond C. J.
Die Schwalbe, 1932
1^st Prize

#2 *

12 + 10

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Set play:

1...Rxe4[a] 2.Qxe4#[A]
1...Rxd5+[b] 2.exd5#[B]

Tries:
1.Ka4? ZZ but 1...Sc5+!
1.Kb5? ZZ but 1...Sd4+!
Real play:
1.Qa1! ZZ

1...Rxe4[a] 2.Sf6#[C]
1...Rxd5+[b] 2.Sc5#[D]
1...f6 2.Sxe5#
1...Sa6-~ 2.Sc7#
1...Sf5-~ 2.Rxe7#

Changed mates, mutate.