White: K on QBI; R's on QI, KR¢: B on QR2; Kt's on K3, 8; P's on QBS, K4, KBS. Black K on K4; B on KR3: Kt on KK; P's on K2, KB4, KKt2. 3. Two moves. Key R—QT. Variations:
K3, 2. Kt—Bl; i. P x P, 2 P—KB4; 1, P—BS, 2. Kt—Kta: 1. Kt K3, 2. R—Q5; 1. Kt else, 2. R x P. We 4 specimens of Black self-blocks allowing White self-interference. The Black B puzzles some solvers—how did he get there? A similar difficulty arose in the classical example of the apple and the dumpling. In the present case, the B has been promoted from a curate—P. A chess problem must be a possible position in probable. a game; about one in a million is a
The following submitted correct solutions to Prob, No. 253:—Líaf Reven and E.A.P.—"Observer." eign elements. Polish lancers, Italian troopers rode with his veterans. But Norwegian infantry is rarely seen in German columns. No Poles, no Hollanders and no Czechs march with their conquerors. Each conquest has only served to add another weight to the growing burden of world dominion, to stretch the training cord of power a little tighter.
Is there any parallel between the Napoleonic age and ours? Then, as now, a growing circle of threatened peoples faced the challenge of a conqueror. But then he was sustained by the forces inherent in revolution and denied to servile Germany today. Those forces drove the engine of his power and prolonged his term of conquest.
There have been other efforts by other individuals at single-handed domination fof the world. From time to time a Roman Emperor achieved it by reason of the simple fact that he had gained control of the Roman administrative and military machine and of the vast area already subject to it. Other bar-parian raiders from the East—Attila, Tamerlane, Genghis Khan—leaped into the saddle of world dominion with a running start, barbarism impinging suddenly on the settled civilizations.
Is that the true analogy with all we are facing now? It may be. Hitler's epiphany has far more in common with the racing hordes of high-cheeked savages that broke in spray across the world than with the steady tramp of the Old Guard, the pounding charge of his cuirassiers rising in their stirrups with a roar of "Vive l'Empereur!" as. they swept past, the small, great-coated figure on the gray barb. For he was an eagle among conquerors. But now we face a vulture.
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