4th March 2019

Selected by Michael McDowell

Stefan Schneider

1st Prize, Arbeiter Zeitung (Vienna), 1974

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Mate in 4

The term “White to play” is often used to refer to a type of problem which would solve in less than the stipulated number of moves if White had a pure waiting move available. Schneider’s problem is a good example.