[Retros] A 1897 e.p. problem

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I must be missing something (hopefully something obvious), but in the position that came up when I clicked the link, I can't see exactly why the last moves couldn't have been 1...Ra6xBb6  2.Be3-b6, Nb6-a8  3.Ba8-b7, Nc4-b6,  rooks leave the NW corner, BKB leaves NW corner, pc7-c6, white-squared Bs leave the corner, the Pat a5 retracts up to a7, etc.. 

TV 






-----Original Message-----
From: Николай Белухов <nbeluhov at abv.bg>
To: retros at janko.at
Sent: Fri, Feb 19, 2010 2:22 am
Subject: [Retros] A 1897 e.p. problem


Dear retro-friends,
Thank you very much for the timely reply last time! Writing the translator's notes for the text, I had another puzzling encounter. In one of his articles from Shakhmatnaya Kompozitsiya ("A bila li nisha-to?", 9/1995) Plaksin mentions an e.p. capture chess problem from the "St. Petersburger Zeitung" newspaper from 1897:
http://www.janko.at/Retros/d.php?ff=n1bb4/1BRpp3/1rp3p1/pP6/rp6/kP3P2/p1P2PPP/K7.htm
10 + 13. White to move. What was Black's last move?
The name of the author, transliterated, is something like "G. Zeybot" or "G. Zeibott" (It could have also been "H. Zeybott", by the way; Harry Goldsteen is G. Golsteyn in Russian). I went looking for this problem on the CPDB by year, by source, by piece pattern, too, and by several possible spellings of the name that I could imagine together with wildcards. I also tried one or two other databases to no better result. Anyone ever heard of such a person or such a problem? G. Zeybot was the editor for the chess column in the newspaper, I think, so it seems possible that he could be tracked down in some way.
Best wishes,
Nikolai


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