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| Josef Plachutta [Wikipedia] |
Josef Plachutta was a specialist of moremovers and selfmates. He participated to all the first composition tourneys of the end of the 19th century and left his name to a moremover theme (quote from Wikipedia):
A white piece sacrifices itself on a square where it could be captured by one of two similarly-moving black pieces (for example, a bishop and a queen moving along a diagonal, or two rooks) moving along a different line; whichever black piece captures, it interferes with the other.Plachutta's first realization of the theme is quoted on Wikipedia. Let's have a look at a more complicated one:
Plachutta, Josef
Londoner Turnier, 1862
2nd Prize
Londoner Turnier, 1862
2nd Prize
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