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Subject: Re: A new trick position

Author: Miguel A. Ballicora

Date: 09:52:18 03/06/02

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On March 06, 2002 at 12:43:07, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:

>On March 06, 2002 at 11:06:05, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>On March 06, 2002 at 08:26:49, Bernhard Bauer wrote:
>>
>>>On March 06, 2002 at 08:06:29, Jouni Uski wrote:
>>>
>>>>On March 06, 2002 at 05:37:14, Andreas Stabel wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>The discussion of castling possibility or not reminds me of a silly
>>>>>similar problem somebody once presented me with:
>>>>>
>>>>>[D]8/8/8/8/1p2p3/1P1kP3/1P3P2/2K3N1 w Q -
>>
>>Can you please explain what all this nonsense is about?  half-castling and
>>such?
>
>I think the idea is that White is halfway through his move, and
>the move in question was castling queenside. Therefore, the king
>is already on it's square, but the rook is in the hand of the
>player, which is why it's not on the board. By putting down
>the rook white mates, so it's mate in half a move.

Unfortunately, Dr. Hyatt failed to pass the turing test. :-)

Regards,
Miguel


>
>--
>GCP



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