Author: Dave Gomboc
Date: 14:57:10 03/30/04
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On March 30, 2004 at 14:07:01, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On March 29, 2004 at 17:40:17, Sam Lloyd wrote: > >>On March 29, 2004 at 14:31:17, Robert Hyatt wrote: >> >>> >>> >>>Are you the Sam Lloyd that used to fool around with strange chess problem >>>positions with Harry Nelson in the Cray Blitz days??? >> >>Sorry, no. >> >>Could you provide some links, to this Sam Lloyd? I found one interview with >>Harry Nelson back in 1993, which included Cray Blitz, defeating Ken Thompson's >>Belle computer. >> >>http://www.nersc.gov/~deboni/Computer.history/Nelson.html >> >>Lloyd > >I don;t have any. That "sam lloyd" was a chess problem fanatic and was well >known in problem composition circles... > >Thanks for replying. > >"that" sam lloyd broke Cray Blitz many times. :) positions with 1 legal move >for a large number of consecutive plies (straightjacket positions) and so >forth... Just one 'l' in Sam Loyd. He's been dead for a long time, incidentally. Dave
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