Fiume (Rijeka)

Mr. Mauro Berni kindly sent me a couple of pre-war chess fireworks by Grandmaster honoris Caissa Enrico Paoli (Trieste, January 13, 1908 – Reggio Emilia, December 15, 2005), both taken from Vladimiro Grgona’s Enigmistica in chess column (October 2013, p. 14):

Enrico Paoli – Ferdinando Giorgieri
Fiume, 1938
5kr1/4r1pR/1q3p2/1b5B/2Q5/8/PP6/1K5R

1. Qxg8+! Kxg8 2. Rh8+! Kxh8 3. Bf7 mate.

Enrico Paoli – Lionello Senis
Fiume, 1939
3r2k1/5ppp/bqR1p3/8/8/5P2/PPBr1RPP/4Q1K1

1. ... Qe3! 0 : 1. For if 2. Qxe3 then 2. ... Rd1+ and mate in three moves.

Map of Fiume város (town of Rijeka) around 1890. Author: Pál Gönczy.