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FOMIN wrote: Fri Jan 09, 2026 22:00 viewtopic.php?p=139131#p139131

The weakling of the 5-th-7th USSR championships of composition in draughts (with the face of a baby) wrote: Fri Dec 19, 2025 09:13

The weakling of the 5-th-7th USSR championships of composition in draughts (with the face of a baby) wrote: There is strong predecesdor - coincidence in combinational play :
Leen de Rooij : the book by J. A. Penings, "4650 problemen op 46/5 , 5/46 , deel I, 1972

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32-27, 7, 21, 38, 10, 1, 5(40), 47-41(37), 41, 39, 15-10!!+
What a stunning endgame !
Maybe that's why I haven't tried to fix the problem all these 40 years—because I knew it was a coincidence. I knew, but then I forgot. Until unknown wizard dredged up old story.
And this once again shows and proves how difficult it is for a newcomer to find something of their own—in a practically " exhausted mine."..
Another example of this is N. Grushevsky's performance at one of the competitions (I don't remember if it was the Belarusian Championship or something else), when all his neat and beautiful miniatures-100 matched, while the " sloppy one" had a strong predecessor.
Back then, it was surprising—how could it be? They all matched!
Now it's not surprising. I just came to understand the situation.
*) J. C. Vink -De Problemist ,No.12 ,1962 - indicated by an unknown wizard, something the psychic vampire had no idea about and that he deliberately hid, hiding by this his incompetence ! [/b]

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