Born (some say)
on this date:
Yul Brynner
on this date:
Yul Brynner
Mate in 6
(White moves.)
(White: Ke8, Nd7, Be5,
b5, e4, f2. Black: Ke6.)
— Sevitov, 1938
(For solution, click here.)
“… There was a problem laid out on the board, a six-mover. I couldn’t solve it, like a lot of my problems. I reached down and moved a knight….
I looked down at the chessboard. The move with the knight was wrong. I put it back where I had moved it from. Knights had no meaning in this game. It wasn’t a game for knights.”— Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, begun in the summer of 1938
“In this way we are offered a formidable lesson for every Christian community.”
— Pope Benedict XVI on Pentecost, June 4, 2006, St. Peter’s Square.