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| | | (1) Posted by Eugene Rosner [Friday, Aug 9, 2013 20:41] | Composing a modern #2
I've read and reread, many times, Comins Mansfield's classic Adventures in Composition. It is perhaps my favorite chess problem book in that it truly delves into the mind of the composer and more importantly, the composing process.
Extending the knowledge to a multi-phase #2, how does everyone here handle the composing process once a basic matrix takes place?
1.does one deal with the potential cooks/duals from the beginning
2.at what point do you look for the try refutations if theses moves themselves not fall into potential pattern play?
I'd really like to know!
| | | (2) Posted by seetharaman kalyan [Friday, Aug 9, 2013 20:58] |
I have done a few modern twomovers. While I was generally on the look out for the obvious checking moves which could be cooks, my concentration was on the defences and the changed mates (without duals)which are the essential at the stage of the scheme itself. Some schemes have inherent duals which should be dealt with first. Once these were settled, I looked for refutations. Last stage was for improved construction, better refutations. Sometimes it may happen that the search for improvements will result in a different scheme with better features.
| | | (3) Posted by Hauke Reddmann [Sunday, Aug 11, 2013 16:38] |
Tricky. My compositions tend to compose themselves. (Either that, or
they fight back to the bitter end.) Once the basic matrix "stands",
the rest takes 10 minutes. If I'm dissatisfied with the result,
probably already the matrix was "bad".
I'm not the best informant anyway, since I usually keep myself
wide away from "modern" problems.
Hauke
| | | (4) Posted by Marjan Kovačević [Sunday, Aug 11, 2013 23:32] |
Eugene,
As more you analyze your mechanism, as better possibilities you find. Usually, the most subtle ways are found at the end.
| | | (5) Posted by Juraj Lörinc [Saturday, Aug 17, 2013 00:09] |
While I compose orthodox twomovers only very rarely, I have already composed quite a few fairy modern twomovers. I think that my experience can be partly transferred to the orthodox field.
Once I have the matrix, I try to find a way to guard all squares that need to be guarded so that I can see the most difficult points in construction, including potential cooks, duals and refutations. Then, based on the findings, I pursue the most promising (given by experience) way to solve constructional difficulties. If I am successful, good, if not, there are usually many different ways to try. Often refutations of some phases come naturally, but sometimes I have to search for them. The same is true for other points. Sometimes I have to backtrack further to the "past" and change more important points of the construction.
Also, in the past I have tried to document a sample composing process of an orthodox twomover with a move function and mate changes. If you haven't seen it yet: http://lorinc.blog.sme.sk/c/189996/Composing-the-twomover.html
| | | (6) Posted by Eugene Rosner [Saturday, Aug 17, 2013 01:12] |
thanks to everyone for their responses! I feel like we're all on the same basic page(me included), but I just wanted to see what everyone had to say!
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