[Retros] Sam Loyd's Cyclopedia of Puzzles

[Mario Richter]

Hi,



> the problem I am thinking about is not by Loyd, but by "H. Fischer (before 1910)", and

> it does not contain nine white, but nine BLACK pawns!



> Here comes the problem (#1) in FEN:

> 3N2R1/pp3p2/3K2p1/8/2pk4/3pp2p/3P1pB1/1Q4BR



> I guess that the author is Hieronymus Fischer (1843-1927).


In another source exactly this problem is attributed to Sam Loyd.
Maybe 'H.Fischer' was one of the many pseudonyms, good old Sam used?!

Btw. here are some other 9-black-pawn position:
F.Mendes de Moraes
1R6/B3p2p/Bp1pK3/2p5/3kp1pQ/2p2p2/2P5/3N2N1
#1

Leopold Löwy
Fern vom Alltag 7 1925
bNNK4/1k6/p1p1Pp2/6Pp/6pR/2pPp1B1/1p3Qp1/R6B
#1


John Frederick Keeble
Jamaica Gleaner 27/12/1890
2R5/3p1N2/p3p3/1p3pp1/1Bpk4/N2ppQ1b/8/K6B
#1

and yet one more (but with a different stip):
Lothar Finzer
Die Schwalbe (XIII) 04/1971
B2R4/1p2Pr2/3p1p1b/1Qpk1Kpq/3p2p1/1p3p1b/B3Pr2/3R4
#0


With 9 white pawns, there is e.g. the followoing joke problem
(but only the removal of some pawns allows a #1):
George Leathem
The Problemist FCS 821 05/1933
8/3pPKPp/4N1N1/4PkP1/3P1p1P/3PRPRP/8/5Q2
#1



Best regards,

  mario