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Subject: Re: Interesting position from the Winboard Forum:

Author: blass uri

Date: 12:08:37 04/19/00

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On April 19, 2000 at 13:26:29, Heiner Marxen wrote:

>On April 19, 2000 at 13:07:23, Dann Corbit wrote:
>
>>[snip]
>>[D]6bn/2k2prq/5prp/5pbn/5p1p/1Kp2PpP/2P3P1/8 w - - 0 1
>>
>>There *will* be a mate for _one side or the other_ I predict.
>>At any rate (despite the position being illegal) I think it is the most
>>interesting mate problem that I have seen in years.
>
>Meanwhile my PC crashed (rebooted) due to a short (split second) power
>outage.  I also changed my mind about the position: I'm not sure any more
>that white can win.  Next time I will ask Chest to search for a win for black.
>Unfortunately, I have not much time for chess these days.
>
>CU later,  Heiner

You can add a white bishop in h1 and ask for a win for white

The position is not a legal position in this case also because of the fact that
the white bishop cannot go to h1 when there is a pawn at g2.

Uri



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