In fairness, I am confident that if human composers actually tried to compose aesthetically pleasing and thematic direct mate problems of this type, they would succeed as well. Not being much of a composer myself, I turned to my computationally creative computer program, Chesthetica, and its 3,473 compositions from July 2010 to the present (consisting of mates in 2, 3, 4, 5 and studies) which I had been selecting for and compiling. Therefore, I decided to perform an experiment just to see how common such things were ‘in the wild’, so to speak. I could not find anything in the existing chess problem literature which already described them. ‘Duplex’ is perhaps an umbrella term that covers them but, to my knowledge, it is not specific to direct mates of the same length for both sides and seems to apply largely to helpmates. We may call these, ‘mutual mate’ problems or, in the case of a study, a ‘mutual win’. A chess problem that could satisfy both stipulations, i.e., ‘White (or Black) to Play and Mate in N’, would tend to be more difficult to compose and challenging to solve. This would mean that in a position where White was to play and mate in n moves, yet if Black was to play instead from the same position, it would also be mate in exactly n moves. Recently, it occurred to me that some chess problems might be more interesting if the stipulation (e.g., ‘White to Play and Mate in 3’) also held true for the opponent. Still no ChessBase Account? learn more > The ultimate chess experience every day, Pla圜 welcomes 20,000 chess players from all around the world – from beginner to grandmaster.Memorize it easily move by move by playing against the variation trainer. Still no ChessBase Account? learn more > Learn openings the right way! Build and maintain your repertoire.Still no ChessBase Account? learn more > Real Fun against a Chess Program! Play, analyze and train online against Fritz.Top authors like Daniel King, Lawrence Trent and Rustam Kasimdzhanov Still no ChessBase Account? learn more > Thousands of hours of high class video training.Still no ChessBase Account? learn more > Sac, sac, mate! Solve tactical positions of your playing strength.Store your games, training material and opening repertoire in the cloud. Still no ChessBase Account? learn more > My Games – Access your games from everywhere.Still no ChessBase Account? learn more > 8 million games online! Updated weekly, our definitive database has all the latest games.
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