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Item 70, The chess problem "stolen from Chess for Fun, Chess for Blood" by Lasker is problem 66 from that book [1]. The problem as stated in the memo is wrong: the white bishop is on the eighth rank, not the seventh, so it should say Bishop on KB8, not on KB7. The problem in FEN is then:

5B2/6P1/1p6/8/1N6/kP6/2K5/8 w - - 1 1

The version from Lasker's book is much more interesting. It happens that the version from HAKMEM is also a mate-in-3, but kind of a mundane one, relative to Lasker's anyway.

[1] Lasker's book is on Google Books, and you can see the relevant page (page 145) https://books.google.ca/books?id=y90UTQeLeeIC&pg=PA145 (spoiler: the solution is described on that page).



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