Chess Composition - Henri Rinck

We’ve already mentioned a famous Russian chess composer Aleksej Selesniev, and now it’s time to pay a tribute to a brilliant French artist Henri Rinck. According to Wikipedia, he had published an impressive number of endgame studies, namely 1670. Rinck’s favourite theme was domination, but he also explored the ways on how to outplay opponent’s Queen with minor pieces. This is our starting point…

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The Bishop and the King will create a mating net around the Kh4.

1. Bf6+ g5 2. Kh2!
Taking away h3 and threatening g3+

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