7th March 2022

Selected by Michael McDowell

Mikhail Marandyuk and Valery Kopyl

9th Place =, 9th WCCT, 2012-13

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Mate in 3

A joint composition by two leading Ukrainian composers. Let us hope that they and all other chess problemists from the Ukraine survive the barbarity that the Russian government has inflicted on their country.