Author: Ed Schröder
Date: 10:59:14 09/17/00
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On September 17, 2000 at 13:53:18, Uri Blass wrote: >On September 17, 2000 at 13:02:01, Ed Schröder wrote: > >>On September 17, 2000 at 12:28:42, Uri Blass wrote: >> >>>On September 17, 2000 at 12:05:40, Paulo Soares wrote: >>> >>>>On September 17, 2000 at 06:53:48, Frederic Friedel wrote: >>>> >>>>>Many thanks Ricardo and Uri for NOT posting the solution. >>>> >>>>I am curious, because you thanked to Ricardo and Uri for not posted the >>>>solution? >>>> >>>>Paulo Soares, from Brazil >>> >>>I understood that he wanted people to think about the solution. >>>In the case of myself I know the solution. >> >>I think the white king has to go to a7 to ensure the draw? >> >>Ed > >This is not the solution. >The solution is in page 108 of the book: > >Endgame Virtuosity(A selection of 222 Israeli Chess studies). > >This is one of the books that I got as a prize for winning some of the israeli >study competitions when the target was to compose long studies when the idea of >the final position was known(for example in one of the competitions the rules >said that the final move must be mate for white when white has only 2 pieces >when one of them is a knight or a bishop or a pawn. > >The studies had to be good studies. >This means that white has always one move to win in the main line(or to draw if >this is the target). >I do not remember the exact rules now but there was a rule that the first move >cannot be a capture(or at least not a capture of more than a pawn). > >My studies had not artistic value so they cannot win other competitions(there >were many captures but the first move was not a capture according to the rules). > >I used Genius3 to help me to compose the studies at that time when I always >checked the next best move. >I always tried for many hours to prove that my studies are not correct and I >decided to believe that my studies are correct only after a failure to prove >that they are not correct. >I also tried to add moves backward with keeping the correctness of the studies. >Genius3 helped me to outsearch my opponents who did not use a computer in seeing >backward and I probably could not win the competitions without it. > >I won 4 books because 4 of my studies won first or second place. >I found that the judge did not check the studies with a computer to check for >errors and there were studies of other composers with errors. > >It is also not easy to know if a study is correct. > >This reason convinced me not to try to compose the 5th study and after 5 >tournaments a new editor came and decided to stop these tournaments. > > >Uri Can you post your studies? Ed
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