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The CV Losing Chess and Helpmates are a first at Chessbase: Helpmates, Selfmates article. Selfmates of old are based on a form of the cv Losing Chess. F.i.d.e. problem/fairy department actually has sanctioned certain few cv pieces for problems, and this same Vukcevich thread has more information. Knowing them is necessary to get grandmaster title in problems like nobel-candidate Vukcevich's. Now Helpmates they all officially made Orthodox a couple of decades ago, but the form of Losing Chess examples of mates in 3 and 4 Chessbase posts, problem-theme Selfmates, are still pure Heterodox, or Fairy, and unsanctioned. Their publication is about equivalent to acknowledging CVs generally or a step that way. As problems, they are two excellent ones by other composers from meister T.R. Dawson's 1930s, T.R.Dawson. In the C.V. department take a look at several of the many MultiRex Selfmates Dawson composed. That is for instance, two White Kings, sound familiar? ///// Note that Spartan Chess immediately below and above ties in both for the problems to solve beyond rules-set and Spartan's one side having two (Black) Kings.