Mindzine - Cameo 9

CAMEO 9 SOLUTIONS

Solution to Problem 1

As with all these sorts of problems, the moves are nearly all forced, but it takes a mental effort to see it all in your head. The answer here is an "under the stones" finale. Under-the-stones problems tend to be classed among the harder ones, but this is one of the easier problems in this book.

Solution to Problem 2

There are two types of monkey jump, large and small. In this case only the large one will do to allow Black to save all his stones. There is also a little picture of a monkey falling off a branch in the original. "Even monkeys fall from trees" is the Japanese equivalent of "Even Homer nods".

Nakayama obviously gives this problem with the Japanese word (saru suberi) for the eponymous tesuji, but mentions that in Europe and America we call it "monkey slip" or "monkey jump". I have never come across the former term, but in any case it is more of a glide than a slip or a jump. It is supposed to relate to the way monkeys link up and stretch out their limbs as a way of helping each other over streams.