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is 1.Bc8 which threatens 2.Qc5# or Qd2#. To defend, black plays 1...Bxc8 white plays 2.Qf6 (threatening 3.c4#) and now a Grimshaw interference comes into play: black can defend by cutting off the white queen from the defence of d6 with 2...Ne6 or 2...Be6, but this interferes with the rook's guard of
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e5, and so allows 3.Qe5#. If instead black plays 2...Re6, this interferes with the bishop's guard of f5 which is significant after 3.Qd4+ Kxd4 4.Nf5+, because the knight cannot be captured. Instead, there follows 4...Kd5 5.c4#.
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This is one of his problems, a mate in five (white moves first, and must checkmate black within five moves against any defence) first published in the
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The second example is one of Grimshaw's better-known problems, a mate in three composed for a competition organised by the
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A game by Grimshaw was already documented in 1853 in the
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