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This thread continues as HELPMATES. Programming Helpmates necessitate re-doing the code on objectives with even that old Losing Chess inadequate. Chess problems Islamic world are over 1000 years old. Challenging modern problem-composers certainly include Loyd(1841-1911) and Dawson (1889-1951), whose compositions remain top of the line. Anand would not score 90% at 25 Loyds welll-picked for 1/2 hour. Conflating all-time literature and current organizations, there are three categories of interest. Among problemists these Helpmates can be counted as the second category in participation after Mates in 5,4,3,2. Number-three category would be fairy pieces, and their world of fairies, unlike variantists', is limited to Grasshopper, Nightrider, Amazon and up to a score others at most. When Nunn frequently wins their problems contests, all the questions boil down to the first category, Mates in 5, 10 or 20: ''How can Black win?'' [See the follow-up comment linking to most recent Problems tournament.] Someone composes, another collates the examination and they all know one another, testers and tested. Unlike Dawson's time, it is a limited field, operated within just the dictatorial paradigm, f.i.d.e. Ortho-. If CVers ever revolutionized from their pretentiousness, so too would Problem-composing by just settling on provisional Next Chesses, immediately expanding the field precisely by factor of either the 20 or the 40.