Ryde-Eastwood Chess Club Member, Dennis Hale, Winner of the 2020 Whyatt Medal

Dennis Hale, a long time established member of the Ryde-Eastwood Chess Club is the recipient of the Australian Chess Federation 2020 Whyatt Medal for for Chess Problem Composition and/or
contributions to the promotion, development and appreciation of chess problem composition.

Here is the full citation.

Here is a self-introduction by Dennis at the OzProblems.

Here is a problem by Dennis:

1. Dennis K. Hale

“Impasse”

Tasmanian Chess Magazine, Mar. 1979

Could either of these two positions have occurred

in a legally played game of chess?

(a) The diagram position

(b) Transfer BPb5 to g5