simulate tournament conditions.

White to play and win

Editorial note: This is a remarkable study which we barely managed to solve – with the help of a powerful chess engine. If you want to truly enjoy it (assuming you are not an expert in the area) you should do the same. Some creative intervention will lead to the beautiful final manoeuvre and position, and allow you to appreciate the genius of the composer.

The first day ended with, unsurprisingly, Poland (Mista, Murdzia and Piorun) in the lead on 86 points (out of a possible 90), followed by Great Britain (McDowell, Mestel and Nunn) second on 81 points and Azerbaijan (Almammadov, Iskandarov and Javadov) third on 77. The individual competition was closer, with myself in the lead (45 points out of ain Hong Kong, including 20-sq-foot “coffin homes”. The average waiting time for public housing has risen to 5.5 years, an 18-year peak. In the five years to 2017 alone, the cumulative shortfall of Hong Kong’s public and private housing supply reached 99,000 units.

Facebook Twitter Pinterest Lantau island. The plan is to build islands in the city’s central waters between Lantau and Hong Kong island Photograph: YAY Media AS/Alamy

“The housing crisis has deepened and the worst is yet to come,” says Wong. In the next 30 years, Our Hong Kong Foundation predicts the city will need an additional 9,000 hectares of land to increase per capita living space, reduce population density and provide enough land for the essential supporting facilities.

Hong Kong is no stranger to reclamation. Approximately 6% of