Remembering Charles Kemp (18-xi-1901 09-xi-1986)

[John Upham]

Remembering Charles Kemp (18-xi-1901 09-xi-1986)



https://britishchessnews.com/2019/11/09 ... 9-xi-1986/

Charles Edward Kemp, British Chess Magazine, 1933, Volume LIII, page 497, Number 3352, Mate in Two

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[JustinHorton]

"Woman" should be "queen", I think, and in the final paragraph "cricket" should be "Grasshopper" as rendered previously. "House" should be "square". "Skipping might be "skipping over" and "both colors" might be better rendered "either color" (or "colour" if we prefer). "Found" should be something like "located on that square" and I think "acts on" might be "exerts force upon" or similar. The last bit might be "in none of the destination squares does it check the White king". I do not know Italian, nor fairy chess, so I may very well have missed some nuances.

[JustinHorton]

Well, just by clicking the English button we get this:

The second problem below features the unorthodox piece known as the Grasshopper ( represented by an upside-down Queen ). Remember that this piece moves along the files or diagonals, but only by skipping a piece (of either color) and completing its move on the next square; if an opposing piece is there, it captures it. In any case, even without moving, it exerts an action on that square. The Black Grasshopper on c4, for example, can only make five moves: c4-c2, c4xe4, c4-c7, c4-f7, and c4-f1; on all the squares it arrives at, it does not check the White King.

This looks mostly OK to me but I'd still prefer "skipping over", and I don't like "an action". Nor do I like the final part, as per my previous.