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Composing chess problems
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This was the first full-fledged genuine helpmate ever published, and it introduced a new era into chess problem composition which has resulted in tens of thousands of exceptionally beautiful and fascinating problems. After the direct mate the helpmate is the second most popular type of chess problem. So Black starts with 1.Kf6 (in helpmates the black move is written like white moves in normal chess) Ra8!