Otto Blathy
was born in Tata, Hungary on August 11,
1860 and he
is credited for creating
a mate in 290 moves. This problem is the
longest checkmate problem and Blathy
won a prize for this work in 1929.
The position is not legal (easy retro analysis) and it is
easy to convert it to a legal position,
but the original Blathy position
is shown. The analysis/solution given here was done by Cyril
Banderier in 1992 and has been online
since 1998. Mr. Blathy died on September 26, 1939 in Budapest. |
