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Beautiful study by Liburkin. If that only won second prize in the competition, the first-prize winner must have been a real stunner. Krakatoa 03:10, 17 November 2005 (UTC)
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Solution: 1.Kg2 Bd3 2.Rd1 Sf2! (if 2...Bc2, 3.Rd8 etc) 3.Kxf2 Ba7+! 4.Ke1! Bxg6 5.Rd7 Bb8! 6.Rxg7 Kh6! 7.Rxg6+ Kh7 8.Re6 Bg3+ 9.Ke2 Kxh8 10.Kf3 winning the bishop
When strictly analyzed, the Saveedra position is a forced mate in 26 for White, not in 12 moves as the article suggests. This is because Black has the option 3...Kb2. Then White must promote the pawn into a queen. This data is available in all endgame tablebases and easily explorable, for example, here. Shouldn't this be discussed in the article? I admit it sort of ruins the fun in it, but hey, what can you do? --ZeroOne 19:35, 14 May 2006 (UTC)
The Daily Brooklyn Eagle has online scans covering 1841 to 1902, which is just enough to include the issue referenced in the text. Unfortunately I don't know how to link to specific pages or even specific days since it isn't clear to me how to make a stable link to pages under http://eagle.brooklynpubliclibrary.org, but it is easy to search for June 1, 1902, and jump to page 53. An greater disappointment is the quality of the scan of page 53. I have a hard time making out much of anything on that page. The only mentions of Lasker I see in the "In the Chess World" column is "According to [Dr.?] Berthold Lasker, his brother the world's champion, will [return?] to this country next October.", and a brief mention later of a Lasker encounter with Blackburne in conjunction with a comment on the Steinitz Defense (reported to be "very little in evidence nowadays"). I couldn't make out anything else associated with Lasker in the column. The position itself is marked "Chess Problem No. 443" and says it was "Composed by Gustav A. Barth for the [illegible] anniversary of the Staten Island Chess Club". I'm not sure how this is associated with Lasker. If we have any chess editors near Brooklyn Central Public Library who could check out the microfiche to see if they are easier to read, that would be cool. 165.189.101.177 (talk) 21:42, 22 January 2009 (UTC)
I think if this article had more references and inline citations, it would be C class. It pretty much covers the topic, what is lacking is references for some sections. Bubba73 (Who's attacking me now?), 06:39, 28 December 2009 (UTC)
The current article is missing a 2001 discovery by the Irish chess historian David McAlister. See http://timkr.home.xs4all.nl/chess2/prynd.htm for details. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.223.20.39 (talk) 16:36, 5 April 2012 (UTC)